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Events in and around Malvern

Also See

Our Malvern Arts events diary using Google Calendar is worth a look - coming out of low maintenance mode spring '09 - opens in new window, or try the RSS feed. The Malvern Green diary on Google is also active from May '09, with environmental and connected activities, plus look at Transition Malvern Hills for their list of events.

New or Noteworthy

Amnesty's Spring Tonic. An evening celebreation of spring from Malvern Hills Amnesty group - poetry, dance and music on Friday 26th March, 7.30 pm at the Coach House Theatre, Grange Road, Malvern, WR14 3HA. Tickets £8, includes a drink, avaialble from Malvern Theatres or the Amnesty bookshop.

There are moves to improve the promotion of Ledbury as a cultural and food destination, building on such things as local cider producers and a food festival linking in to St George's Day celebrations in April. A

Upcoming Events

Organ recitals at Malvern Priory About every couple of months, commencing 12 noon and lasting 50 to 60 minutes, with large screen video display. 2010: Saturday 27th February, Saturday 24th April, Saturday 26th June, Monday 30th August, Saturday 27th November. See Malvern Priory Organ web site for details of the music for the next recital.

Way over in Hereford, but as any money collected goes to charity: A series of concerts Complete Chopin Piano Solo Works running to May 2010 at Holy Trinity Church, Whitecross Road, Hereford, HR4 ODF. Adult tickets £12, students £7. Sat 6th March at 7.30 pm, Sat 24th April at 7.30 pm, Sat 15th May at 7.30 pm.

Malvern

Music sessions are now on separate page.

Malvern Walking Festival dates etc. are on Walking Malvern page.

Autumn in Malvern Festival, during October. Music, talks, exhibitions and more. Poetry events in (and around) Ledbury in association with The Friends of the Dymock Poets.

Elgar Festival, started in 2004, is aiming to happen every 2 years, May/June.

Malvern May Day celebration is usually held on the Saturday before/closest to1st May, organised by Malvern Fringe Arts. 2010: 1st May, with a theme of Forests and Fantasy.

The springs/well dressing takes place over the same weekend as May Day event - see Spa info on Malvern Hills page for more background. Theme for 2010: Celebration.

Fringe Festival (which can be connected with Elgar Festival) usually late May/early June, organised by Malvern Fringe Arts.

WestFest West Malvern's annual all-dayer has moved from August Bank Holiday. Now mid- July, 2010: 10th (Saturday). Arts and crafts, food and drink, including a special brew from Malvern Hills Brewery, and loads of music.

Immediate area

Spring Garden ShowThree Counties Showground Just south of Malvern. Specific gardening, dogs, ponies, antiques, cars and such shows, plus the usual countryside types. Spring Gardening Show, in May (2010: 6th to 9th) is the first in the RHS calendar. Malvern Autumn Show (Gardening and Food, 2010: 25th/26th Sept) rounds off the season. Also CountryTastic, indoor event day for kids up to 14, 2010: 8th April.

Flea fairs and antique fairs put on at the showground by B2B Events.

There are some new leaflets on walks and cycle rides from Three Counties Showground. Please ask the Showground for these, to encourage them to do more on 'sustainable tourism'. The showground also contains the National Collection of Perry Pear Trees.


Three Choirs Festival August classical music bash, orchestral as well as choral, with maybe a bit of jazz. The oldest musical festival in Europe (noted as a 'yearly Musical Assembly' in 1719). Rotates between Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester. 2010: Gloucester, 7th to 15th August. Email: info@3choirs.org

Colwall Festival. 2009: 10th to 18th July.

Welland Steam and Country Rally, Woodside Farm, Welland. 2010: 23rd to 25th July. Phone 01531 890417 or 890762. Organised by Ross-on-Wye Steam Engine Society.

West

Gregg's PitBig Apple Weekend. 2009: 10th/11th October. Celebrating the apple harvest and all things apple. Loads of events, around Much Marcle area and wider. See Big Apple or Westons Cider site for more info. There's usually a bike ride on the Sunday along the Ledbury Cider Trail route - check Bike Rides page.

Blossom time with The Big Apple, Usually first weekend in May (2010: Sunday/Monday 2nd/3rd May). Cider tasting at Putley Village Hall. Big Apple contact number: 01531 670544.

Daffodil Weekend at Kempley - guided walks, teas etc. 2010: 20th and 21st March. (Also see Cycling events for Ross-on-Wye Daffodil Rides.)

Daffodil Weekend at Dymock - see the neighbouring Kempley event instead.

Oxenhall Daffodil Teas in 2010, south of Kempley - see under New and Noteworthy above.

Big Chill Festival is at Eastnor Castle Deer Park (just south of Malvern Hills). 2010: 5th to 8th August. Chill out music and more.

24-hour Mountain Bike Race in Eastnor Castle's Deer Park (apparently the "biggest 24 hour race in the world", according to Bike Radar). 2010: 18th to 20th June. 2010 will include a Sportive ride (on-road), a choice of 100km or 50km on Sunday 20th, taking in a lot of of our favourite countryside if the 100km is like the previous route in 2008 - here's the TrackLogs file for that (GPX on request - it's too large for general download). Sportive places are limited to 450 and registration is via road.cc. Main event registration starts 28th Feb - check Mountain Mayhem website for details.

There are various other events during the year at Eastnor Castle.

Ledbury English Festival around St Georges Day. Email: ledburyenglishfestival@btopenworld.com, phone 01531 632963.

Dymock Poets

Ledbury Poetry Festival June/July. 2010: 2nd to 11th July.

Check Local to Ledbury for more events, probably including a spring festival.

Guild of Herefordshire Craftsmen Shows at The Market House, Ledbury for various periods.

Much Marcle Steam Rally Rye Meadows, Much Marcle. Includes steam ploughing. 2010: 17th - 18th July. Also see Shakespeare's Rally list.

The Garden Festival at Hellens, an interesting very old manor house, 2010: 12th/13th June, with the emphasis on food quality, the environment, ‘food miles’, and an increasing interest in growing food and self-sufficiency.

North

Bromyard Folk Festival mid-September. 2010: 10th to 12th.

Bromyard International Town Criers Festival. Apparently this still exists, despite various announcements of it ending. 2009: a one day event on Thursday 23rd April. Also try Knighton, on Welsh borders.

Bromyard Gala 2010: 3rd/4th July. Includes Steam Rally.

Nozstock Festival Rowden Paddocks, Bromyard, HR7 4LS. 2010: 9th to 11th July. A range of music, from bluegrass to electronica and beyond.

Tenbury Wells Holly and Mistletoe Auctions, Tuesdays before Christmas. Phone 01584 810555. See Tenbury Events site for Mistletoe Festival (also see Tenbury Mistletoe Festival site). Main date is first Saturday in December, National Mistletoe Day, 2009: 5th December.

Tenbury Wells Applefest 2009: 17th/18th October. With street entertainment, arts market, films and walking weekend.

Worcester Beer & Cider Festival mid August. 2010: 12th to 14th.

Worcester Festival, August. 2010: 14th to 30th.

Worcester Music Festival over August bank holiday weekend. 2010: 20th to 22nd August. Focus is on promoting local music, but with wider contributions too.

East

Upton Riverside Folk Festival May Bank Holiday (2010: 30th April to 3rd May).

Upton-upon-Severn Jazz Festival late June (2010: 25th to 27th). Email: info@uptonjazz.co.uk

Upton Blues Festival July (2010: 16th to 18th). In various pubs, free! Email: info@uptonbluesfestival.org.uk

Upton Water Festival August Bank Holiday weekend - mainly Saturday/Sunday, 2009: 29th/30th. Phone 01684 594552?

Pershore Plum Fayre. Main event August Bank Holiday Monday (2009: 31st August), Plus Farmers Market, Town Centre, 10am to 3pm. Also, from 2008, events start from 1st August. Contact Pershore Visitor Centre, 01386 556591.

Fladbury Walkabout (between Pershore and Evesham). Flower festival, refreshments, boat trips, music and more. 2010: 10th and 11th July.

Asparagus Festival events at The Fleece Inn, Bretforton, east of Evesham, late May/early June. 2010: Auction 30th May, Festival 31st May.

Tewkesbury Water Festival 2009: 18th July.

Tewkesbury Medieval Festival 2010: 10th and 11th July.

South

Gorsley Festival "a rural rendezvous for spiritual refreshment" including flower displays in the local church. August Bank Holiday, 2009: 27th to 31st August.

Newent Onion Fayre takes over the centre of town for the day. 2009: 12th September. Tourist info: 01531 822468.

Linton Music Festival A village in between Newent and Ross has a music festival (started 2001) on the weekend nearest the mid-summers day, in the grounds of the Alma Inn. 2010: 18th to 20th June - tenth year.

Ross Live!, July/August. 2009: 19th July to 5th August. (Last Ross on Wye International Festival was in 2004.) Also check out Jamstand (on myspace), 2009: 7th to 9th August.

Ross-on-Wye Cider Festival at Broome Farm. August/September. 2009: 4th to 6th September. Due to popularity, book in advance, and/or check out website for other possible summer weekend events at Broome Farm.

Around Hereford and county

Borderlines Film Festival brings the best of international cinema to Herefordshire. Starts February in 2010, to late March? At The Courtyard and venues in Ledbury, Ross, Gorsley and elsewhere in the county. Phone 01432 344039.

Herefordshire Festival of Walking June. 2010: 19th to 27th.

Wyeside Music Festival. 2009: 5th and 6th June, Hereford Rugby Club. Forty or so bands, fair rides, workshops etc.

Beer on the Wye, a Hereford Camra event, featuring local cider and perry too. 2010: 9th/11th July. Riverside Marquee at Hereford Rowing Club, Hereford, HR4 0BE, with camping available 'next door'.

Wye Valley Chamber Music runs some events in Hereford, St Briavels (near Forest of Dean), Much Marcle (Hellens) in September. The connected Chamber Music Festival in January (2010: 8th to 17th January) has been going since 2000. St Briavels Music Society calendar may be worth checking out, too.

Herefordshire Art Week, September. 2010: 11th to 19th. Includes various galleries in Ledbury such as textile works at Artplace, jewellery, furniture, ceramics, textiles and garden sculptures at Bromesberrow (Rubicon Art), botanical stained glass and photography at Putley, also Blue Ginger near Cradley. Dragonswood Forge at Stoke Lacey is also worth a look. (For galleries in Malvern, see our Interests page.)

Flavours of Herefordshire Food Festival. 2010: 23rd and 24th October. Hereford Race Course.

Hereford Photography Festival. 2009: 14th May to 21st June, as well as in October? We expect a similarly strong set of exhibitions as 2008.

Herefordshire Contemporary Crafts Fair. 2009: 13th to 15th November.

Leominster Apple Fair 2009: 17th October. Lion Ballroom, Broad Street, Leominster. See Marcher Apple Network.

Leominster Festival. 2010: 4th to 13th June.

Further afield

Bewdley Festival October. 2009: 9th to 18th.

Cheltenham Festivals Jazz (April/May), Science (June), Classical music (July), Literature (October). Folk festival (February).

Wychwood Festival World, Roots and Contemporary music with camping at Cheltenham racecourse, 2010: 4th to 6th June.

Church Stretton and South Shropshire Arts Festival Late July.

Festival at the Edge Storytelling festival, plus music near Much Wenlock, Shropshire. 2010: 16th to 18th July.

Clun Green Man Festival, May. 2010: 1st to 3rd.

Gloucester International Rhythm & Blues Festival. Late July. 2009: 25th July to 2nd August.

Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature 2010: 27th May to 6th June. Also December weekend event.

Wyastone Summer Series (June/July). The home of Nimbus Records, the concert hall hosts classical and other music. We understand that it is a fantastic setting near the Wye. Near Monmouth.

Ludlow

Festival Shakespeare in the castle and more. Three weeks, June/July. 2009: 20th June to 5th July.

Ludlow Marches Food and Drink Festival, 2010: 10th to 12th September. There's a connected foodie walk - Magnalonga in August (no veggie options though).

Ludlow Green Festival 2009: 29th and 30th August.

Craft Events website has disappeared at Oct 09. Try Ludlow Castle events page instead: Craft Festival, Medieval Christmas Fayre (2009: 28th and 29th November).

Ludlow Assembly Rooms arts and community centre.

Further Info

Worcester Live Covering events at the Swan Theatre and Huntingdon Hall plus all the events organised and run by Worcester Live.

malvern-net Has events listing on the front page, various scenic pics, links to hosted sites (local musicians/artists and some businesses). Direct link to Malvern Fringe pages.

Events page on Malvern Hills DC (local council site - tourism). Worcestershire Tourism Events search.

Worcester Folk Traditional music sessions and events around the area (alternative link).

Arts Alive and Flicks in the Sticks - professional live performances and cinema in rural Herefordshire and Shropshire.

Broadsheep What's On Listings magazine for Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Mid Wales.

Green Futures Festivals for information on environmentally friendly events around the country.

artsworcs has a good links page of artists and art organisations in Worcestershire.

Artery is a newsletter from Herefordshire Council Cultural Services, mainly of news and opportunities of relevance to Herefordshire artists and crafts people. Others outside the county can also subscribe and there's also some general local arts info on the web front page.

dancefest - the dance agency for Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

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