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  • YEA Devizes: DOCA New Youth Project

    YEA Devizes: DOCA New Youth Project

    Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts announced their upcoming project, YEA Devizes today. Made possible by a grant from National Grid Electricity Transmissionโ€™s Community Grant Programme, the Youth Event Activity Devizes will be a youth festival area within the International Street Festivalโ€ฆ. Working with the incredible young adults we have in our community, DOCA will support them… Read more

  • Alberta Cross Frontman Joins Line Up for Frome Festival Fundraising Gig

    Alberta Cross Frontman Joins Line Up for Frome Festival Fundraising Gig

    Alberta Cross, along with the up-and-coming local bands Something Moves and BroccoliBoy, will perform at a charity gig on Saturday 30th November at 23 Bath St. All part of a new generation of vibrant and talented musicians calling Frome home, they are helping raise funds to support the costs of running the annual Frome Festival… Read more

  • The Mist; New Single from Meg

    The Mist; New Single from Meg

    Chippenhamโ€™s young folk singer-songwriter Meg, or M3G if you want to get numeric, will release her 6th single The Mist on Friday 18th October, and itโ€™s got me thinking about the film Rain Manโ€ฆ. Showing my age, I saw it at the flicks in 88! Tom Cruise was everywhere in the late eighties, and this… Read more

  • โ€œPericlesโ€ at the Wharf Theatre, Devizes, October 21stโ€“26th 2024.

    โ€œPericlesโ€ at the Wharf Theatre, Devizes, October 21stโ€“26th 2024.

    by Ian Diddamsimages by Chris Watkins Media, Jeni Meade. It would be fair to say that once William Shakespeare found or invented a plot device, he wasnโ€™t one to avoid using it again. And again. And โ€“ wellโ€ฆ  again, and again. Letโ€™s play โ€œShakespeare Bingoโ€ and โ€œGuess the Playโ€โ€ฆ Thereโ€™s a STORM AT SEA, a… Read more

  • Watermark: Fulltone Orchestra Brings Enyaโ€™s Iconic Album to Life…

    Our very own illustrious orchestra, The Fulltone Orchestra, are staging live performances of Enyaโ€™s 1988 breakthrough album, Watermark in Basingstoke, Bath and Cheltenham later this month. They promise to be symphonic celebrations of the bestselling artistsโ€™ sublime and distinctive sound….. The Fulltone Orchestra, accompanied by the magnificent female voices of The Cantiamo Choir, revive Enyaโ€™s… Read more

  • Rachel Sinnetta & Rosie Jay at the Crown, Bishops Cannings

    Rachel Sinnetta & Rosie Jay at the Crown, Bishops Cannings

    Must confess it felt somewhat odd to return to The Crown in Bishops Cannings for my weekly ration of live music. The only pub in the village has been closed a short while, since verbal pitchforks and torches from a crotchety minority who wanted the tavern to be little more than a museum artefact drove… Read more