Eliza Carthy and father Martin to perform at Folk Three in Cheltenham, in February

Eliza Carthy and father Martin to perform at Folk Three in Cheltenham, in February

FROM February 13 - 15 six of British folk music’s finest performers will descend on Cheltenham Town Hall over three nights for Folk Three 2015.

Educating Rita, Kings Theatre, Gloucester until January 24

EDUCATING RITA, which sold out during its run at the Everyman Studio Theatre before Christmas is being performed at the Kings Theatre in Gloucester this week ending on Saturday, January 24 with a special benefit night for the Hollie Gazzard Trust, which was set up following the death of Hollie while at work at Fringe Benefits & La Bella Beauty Salon, Gloucester.
Young talent turns in a top town panto at Cirencester's Bingham Hall

Cirencester’s pantomime company, The Phoenix Revue Company, have the spectacular opening of this year’s show, Alice In Wonderland, at the Bingham Hall on Thursday night.
A Night of Music and Stories with thrilling music and spellbinding yarns sure to banish winter blues

ON SATURDAY, January 17, at 7.30pm, A Night of Music and Stories comes to Great Rollright Village Hall, near Chipping Norton, with thrilling music and spellbinding yarns from three sparkling performers who all live in the Cotswolds.
David Durston, painter and printmaker, has new exhibition at Corinium Museum in Cirencester

DAVID Durston is a painter and printmaker, born in 1950, who since the late 1960’s has worked and painted predominantly in Gloucestershire.
Warm hearted wit with a dash of subversion and room filling effervescence

FRESH from yet another Edinburgh Fringe run, plus touring Australia, New Zealand and the UK and recording Life: An Idiot’s Guide and What Does The K Stand For (BBC Radio 4), feel-good maestro Stephen K Amos hits the road with his brand new show Welcome To My World.
Award-winning Ashton Keynes photographs on sale for Gloucestershire charity

AN exhibition of the work of award-winning Ashton Keynes photographer Ken Skehan will be on display for a week from tomorrow, Friday 9 January at the Taurus Crafts centre in Lydney, Forest of Dean.
Slingshot Theatre Company's ridiculous comedy jam-packed with humour, for the over 10s

THE time: early-mid 2010s. The place: Windpump Lane, Creakebottom, darkest Suffolk.
Age guideline is five plus

GET set for a magical, musical adventure this Christmas with Beauty and the Beast at the Oxford Playhouse in Beaumont Street.
Open from December 1 to February 28, 2015

Families across Gloucestershire are invited to Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, this winter to find The Gruffalo’s Child, who has followed The Gruffalo out of his comfortable cave for a forest trail adventure.
Hear Joan Armatrading's magical old favourites plus more recent compositions to fall in love with.

OVER her 42 years of touring, Joan Armatrading has never done a solo world tour.
Jewellery, ceramics, wood, metal, furniture, pottery, prints, paintings and textiles

CIRENCESTER’S art and craft centre will be turned into a sparkling Aladdin’s Cave this Christmas in a superb show celebrating the very best of British handmade craft.
Best foot forward for South Cerney pantomime

The Shoes and the Elf Maker - Everything was relatively quiet for Ruby and Poppers until the arrival of a new shoe factory. All of a sudden their friends start to disappear and one day Poppers disappears too! They are taken on an unforgettable journey of shoes, a magic machine and Elves in order to discover the truth and set things right The bi-annual pantomime staged by the South Cerney Players is always eagerly anticipated and this year is no exception; written and directed by Laura Amy Pitts, herself a previous panto performer for the Players, The Shoes and The Elf Maker is Laura’s first foray into Pantomime. But she’s no stranger to being on the other side of the boards having written and directed a murder/mystery play that was performed outdoors in the grounds of Cirencester Opportunity Group last summer.
A Night at the Cinema in 1914, an evening of silent film at Cirencester Parish Church on Friday, November 7

CIRENCESTER Parish Church invites you to take a step back in time with an evening of silent film on Friday, November 7.
Fairford Art Society exhibition of members' work in Cirencester for first time

FOR the very first time Fairford Arts Society will be holding an exhibition of its members’ work in Cirencester.
Gigspanner has the tools

PETER Knight’s Gigspanner has been hailed as “another milestone in folk’s rebirth of cool”, although to classify these three virtuoso performers purely as folk musicians is to undersell them by a long chalk.
Review of Cirencester's Brewery Blues with The Wirebirds, the Matt Woosey band and Antoine Architeuthis

THERE should have been the whiff of patchouli in the air and tie-dye tee shirts on the merchandise desk as The Wirebirds took us back to Bill Graham’s iconic Fillmore West venue, circa 1969, at Cirencester’s Brewery Blues on Friday.
Hardeep Singh Kohl's first stand up show is at the Arts Centre Swindon on October 23

HARDEEP Singh Kohl is a regular panellist on Channel 5’s hugely popular current affairs show, The Wright Stuff, and has been a regular reporter on BBC1’s The One Show and a guest on BBC 1’s Question Time, and This Week with Andrew Neil.
Cirencester Operatic Society presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience in Cirencester this month

CIRENCESTER Operatic Society presents an exciting new production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience at The Barn Theatre, Beeches Road, from October 21-25 (including a Saturday matinee).
Folk legend John Kirkpatrick returns to Westcote Village Hall on Saturday, November 1

FOLK legend John Kirkpatrick returns to Westcote Village Hall on Saturday, November 1 at 7.30pm with his new show 'Tunes from the Trenches'.
The Pantaloons in Dickens' darkly comic masterpiece, Bleak House, to play Cheltenham's Bacon Theatre

THE Pantaloons are back on the Bacon Theatre stage for one night only with Bleak House, on Wednesday, October 22, at 7.30pm.
Pat Barker's Booker-nominated novel, Regeneration, adapted for Everyman Theatre stage from October 21-25

MARKING the centenary of the First World War, Pat Barker’s Booker-nominated novel, Regeneration, has been adapted for the stage by Olivier Award-winning playwright Nicholas Wright (His Dark Materials, Vincent in Brixton). It runs at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham from October 21-25.
Simon Callow performs The Man Jesus on Sunday, October 5 at Cheltenham

SIMON Callow, one of Britain’s best-loved actors, performs The Man Jesus on Sunday, October 5 at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre.
BREWERY BLUES REVIEW: Keith Thompson Band

KEITH THOMPSON’S new album Catch The Fire has been spinning non-stop on my CD deck since his showcase gig at Brewery Blues in Cirencester on Friday.
Ruby Wax's guide to the 21st century

RUBY Wax, comedian, writer and mental health campaigner, is touring the UK with her one-woman show Ruby Wax: Sane New World: The Tour.

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Pet owners warned after attempted cat-flap burglary in Malmesbury

Pet owners warned after attempted cat-flap burglary in Malmesbury

A WOULD-BE burglar attempted to break into a house by damaging a cat-flap in a bid to remove a key which was left in a lock on the inside of the door.

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