Music, Art and Malvern
An extension of the MalvernTrail Events listing page.
- Music sessions - weekly or other regular happenings at local venues.
- Musicians, groups.
- Classical.
- Joining in - making sounds and instruments. Dance.
- Music Promoters.
- Arts Venues.
Also See
- Music festivals, one off concerts etc are on the main Events page.
- Information on Elgar as a cyclist.
- Creative - arts and crafts courses, exhibitions, pictures.
Music
Music sessions
Please see our new Events Section listings from November 2011.
These are the ones we've to check still exist.
Music at Mount Pleasant Hotel, Bellevue Terrace, Wednesday 9 to 10.30pm, Sunday 4 to 6.30pm. Phone 01684 561837.
Abbey Jazz Fortnightly jazz sessions on Sunday nights at Malvern Rugby Club, Spring Lane, from 8pm. Small band sessions focus on the ‘swing’ era of the 1930s and 40.
The Swan at Newlands (owned by same people as top Malvern pubs Nags Head and Chase Inn) has professional and open mic sessions on the first Sunday of the month, from 5pm. Jazz, blues, folk. Phone 01886 832224.
Musicians
Some local groups and musos:
Flatworld "Rich compelling melodies and tight driving rhythm, Flatworld play an eclectic mix of music from Eastern Europe and France."
Harpsong (Jonathan Penley) music is based on celtic roots, playing celtic harp, piano accordion, guitar, reed organ and penny whistle.
Malthouse Passage is a 5 piece band of multi instrumentalists and singers with a folk music background. Their style is "dynamic, original and very foot-stomping infectious" with a mix of traditional and contemporary folk songs. Find on Myspace.
Massey/Fletcher "Fancy Pickin' & Lonesome Hollerin'" and other combos with Vo Fletcher.
Nonimus "Trio of colourful costumed minstrels with period instruments and baskets full of English and European music from the 12th to 17th centuries."
The Pewke Band for anyone who wants faithful revivals of Rock and Blues from the late sixties to the mid seventies.
Classical
English Symphony Orchestra puts on a range of concerts, from full orchestra to quartet, in Malvern and surrounding areas. Less Malvern based than it used to be, though.
Malvern Concert Club put on "international standard classical chamber music concerts" at Malvern Theatre.
On the Events page, see Elgar Festival and Autumn in Malvern under Malvern, Three Choirs Festival under Immediate area, Wye Valley Chamber Music under Hereford and county, Wyastone and others under Further afield.
Joining in
Fippleflute Recorder making with Tim Cranmore.
Dance
An Argentine Tango club for Malvern.
Other Venues/Promoters
The Grove - a small venue in a large house in Great Malvern (8 Avenue Road) featured acoustic music every now and then. Property is up for sale, spring 2011, so will disappear as a venue soon.
Arts Venues
Malvern Theatres. Films, concerts, dance etc. as well as plays. Box office 01684 892277.
Huntingdon Hall Folk and other music in the centre of Worcester, also runs Swan Theatre. Box office 01905 611427.
Worcester Arts Workshop in the city centre. Various kinds of performance such as poetry, theatre and music, and The Splendid Cinema screening arthouse films.
Ledbury Market Theatre Less of a 'professional' venue than the others here, but in a good way! Ledbury Film Club second Friday of the month. Box office via Ledbury Tourist Info, 01531 636147.
The Courtyard Theatre Centre for the arts in Hereford. Folk and other music, dance, theatre and more. Box office 01432 340555.
Number 8 Community Arts Centre, Pershore. Box office 01386 555488.
Evesham Arts Centre. Box office at Tourist Info 01386 446944, or at theatre during perfromances 01386 48883 .