20th April to 29th April 2012

 

                     

                                                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dame Evelyn Glennie - Saturday April 21st 2012 The amazing luck in hearing Julian Lloyd Webber and his wife Jiaxin Cheng play an encore especially for Thornbury with such emotion that many of the audience left with a lump in their throats made us think about other high profile musicians who enjoy bringing their talent to Festivals such as ours. So we are delighted to announce that legendary virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, the first person in musical history to successfully create a career as a solo percussionist, will be appearing in Thornbury on April 21st, the first Saturday of the Festival.
SVAT 4-13 May 2012
Newsletter No 15, November 2011 Take a look at the recently published November TAF Newsletter (pdf reader required)

Evelyn Glennie April 21st 2011

Eistedd Syllabus document


Sunday April 22nd Robert Powell and Elizabeth Garvie 2012 promises the Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics and a Dickens bicentenary amongst other celebrations, all of which we are busy thinking about and searching for personalities or events that might help us commemorate together. A Celebration of Charles Dickens features Robert Powell and Elizabeth Garvie on Sunday 22nd April. A Sunday event of this stature we hope will attract a really good audience to enjoy the funny, romantic, grotesque, satirical and macabre side of Dickens’ characters.

 

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Community Arts The Festival encourages the community to be active in the Arts; activities include the annual Eisteddfod; young people devising their own show; workshops from designers and local artists and school visits from writers and musicians. The Festival includes bands, soloists and performance from local school and Eisteddfod performers, concerts for the elderly in their own residential accommodation and exhibitions of work by local artists in their own studios and in shops and cafes around the town.

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Newsletter No. 15   November 2011 Newsletter No. 14   September 2010
Newsletter No. 13   December 2009
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