CHELTENHAM FEBRUARY EVENTS
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Tubby Blues Festival
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The Tubby Blues Show takes place at The United Services Club, 7 North Place. Bands booked to play include Danny Bryant's Red Eye Band and Doctor's Orders. Gloucestershire blues performer Otis Mack will compere the show. Tickets cost £10 each. Tables can be reserved by calling 01242 691998 or 07796 034206. Doors open at 7pm and the show will run from 8.25pm to midnight. |
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WEDNESDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2010 |
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Sherlock Holmes Society Meeting - The Fiery Angel
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If you love everything Sherlock Holmes or wish to find out more then come along to join in the fun, you can watch the tv series and the films also loads more, such as day trips, quizes etc. Always looking for new members.
Start Time 7.30pm till about 9.00pm. Free of Charge
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Deep Roots Music Night - The Frog & Fiddle
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Deep Roots is a new live music night that promotes artists that have a roots approach to music, supporting a number of genres (Acoustic/Indie/Hip Hop/Folk/Reggae/Funk).
Rather than being genre specific, Deep Roots aims to explore genres and build a reputation for always bringing something fresh to its audience. Deep Roots is supporting artists with original tracks that have an edge, don’t expect your typical rock gig. All artist will get involved in a lively jam session toward the end of the night. 7.30pm - 11.30pm
Price: £3/£2.50(Students)/£2 Live Music Society
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FRIDAY, 12 FEBRUARY - SUNDAY, 14 FEBRUARY 2010 |
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Cheltenham Folk Festival
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The 14th Cheltenham Folk Festival is coming to Cheltenham this February, featuring performances from Faustus, Hérétique, Maz O’Connor, Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne, The Fay Hield Trio and many more. The festival offers wide range of workshops, where you can learn the techniques behind various instruments and musical styles from the performers themselves. As well as the broad range of concerts, workshops, ceilidhs and children’s activities there is a market place with stalls selling everything from jewellery and clothing to musical instruments, as well as the infamous Real Ale bar. |
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SATURDAY, 13 FEBRUARY 2009 |
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Churchdown Male Voice Choir - All Saint’s Church
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Come and listen to the popular Churchdown Male Voice Choir and soloists in the beautiful surroundings of All Saint’s Church, Pittville Cheltenham. The concert is in support of the Holst Organ Fund to help support this historic instrument,
The concert begins at 7.30pm and tickets £6 are available from David Gray on 01242 862708, or on the door.
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Qigong workshop - Southam Village Hall
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At this workshop you will be learning a self-healing form of Qigong known as Huagong, developed by Qigong master Zhixing Wang. This style is easy to learn and consists both of formal gracefully flowing movements, standing and sitting postures and freely expressive spontaneous movement. No previous experience or special ability is necessary.
10 - 4 pm. Monthly class. £35 per class
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Live and Unsigned Audition - Bacon Theatre
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Live and Unsigned is the biggest original music competition in the UK for unsigned bands and acts. Auditions travel across the UK and the final is staged at the Live and Unsigned Festival in the summer. Enter now for an audition via the website www.liveandunsigned.uk.com. |
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SATURDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2010 |
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An Evening of Piaf: The Songs - Playhouse Theatre
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Eva Loiseau, whose lustrous French tone captures the very essence of the Piaf performance, pays homage to ‘the little sparrow’.
Also appearing at this special cabaret-style evening performing fresh, vibrant jazz standards and contemporary songs are JWR COLLECTIVE plus MISS KITTY RIBBONS, burlesque extraordinaire. Doors Open at 7.30pm.
Performance begins at 8.00pm. Tickets:
£8
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Jimmy White - Pockets Snooker Club
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Cheltenham's largest snooker and pool club will be opening its doors after a grand refurbishment on 20 February with Jimmy White as their VIP guest. Jimmy will be playing snooker with eight of the club's members (there is a chance to buy a ticket to play him). He will be signing autographs and you can also have your picture taken with him.
All you need to do to see Jimmy White play, or possibly even have a game of snooker with him, is to join Pockets Snooker Club (membership costs £20 per year). The club boasts 8 full size snooker tables, 5 American pool tables, large screen TV, fully licensed bar and much more. Opening times 11am – 11pm, 7 days a week, table rates for snooker or american pool is £6 an hour.
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Strictly Ballroom & Latin Dance Night - Churchdown Community Centre
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Strictly Ballroom & Latin dance practice night. Suitable for both ’Beginners’ and the ’More Experienced’ Waltz - Chac Cha Cha - Foxtrot - Rumba - Quickstep - Jive - Tango - Samba - Viennese Waltz - Paso Doble - Argentine Tango. 50/50 Ballrom & Latin (alternate) Non stop dancing (for those fit enough!!) Refreshments included in the entrance price.
7.30 - 10.00 pm Entry £3.50
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TUESDAY, 23 FEBRUARY - SATURDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2010 |
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Death of a Salesman - Playhouse Theatre
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Deep End Theatre Company
presents
'Death Of A Salesman'
A deceptively simple play, its plot revolves around the last twenty-four hours in the life of Willy Loman, the hard-working sixty-three-year-old traveling salesman whose ideas of professional, public success jar with the realities of his private desires and modest accomplishments. Subtitled "Certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem," the play has a narrative which unwinds largely through Willy Loman's daydreams, private conversations revealing past family hopes and betrayals, and how those past experiences, commingled with entropic present circumstances, culminate in Willy's death. Realizing that in death he may provide for his family in ways he never could during his lifetime, Willy commits suicide, hoping that his insurance will grant Biff a "twenty-thousand-dollar" deliverance, an extended period of grace. He hopes the insurance money will somehow expiate, or at least minimize, the guilt which he feels for his affair at the Standish Arms Hotel a lifetime ago. The simplicity of the play, however, quickly dissolves into filial ambiguity, civic paradox, and philosophic complexity. Performances:
Evenings at 7.30pm. Tickets: £10, Concessions: £8 (except Sat 27th Feb)
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THURSDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2010 |
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’Strictly’ Tea Dancing
- Churchdown Community Centre
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Non stop ballroom dancing. (Including Latin American & Popular Sequence). Every fourth Thursday in the month - 2.00 - 4.30 pm. Super dancing venue. Spacious dance floor with plenty of room to DANCE. A good time guaranteed. £2.50 (Refreshments included). Onsite parking. Visit www.glosdance.co.uk or email strictly.ballroom@btinternet.com to recieve regular udates.
Every fourth Thursday (2.00 - 4.30 pm) |
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SATURDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2010 |
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Rock, Gem ’n’ Bead Show
- Cheltenham Racecourse
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This is a retail event where exhibitors are selling a whole range of crystals, minerals and fossils in their natural form, together with others that have been cut, facetted or polished to make ornaments, unusual artefacts and a whole range of jewellery, fantastic beads & findings. The show is for all ages and all tastes - collectors, lapidarists, crystal healers, beaders and jewellery makers.
Opening times: Saturday 27th March 10am to 5pm, Sunday 28th March 10am to 4pm. Admission prices: £3.50 Adult, £2 Seniors, £1 Children 8-16, Under 8’s Free.
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Strictly Ballroom & Latin Dance Night - Churchdown Community Centre
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Strictly Ballroom & Latin dance practice night. Suitable for both ’Beginners’ and the ’More Experienced’ Waltz - Chac Cha Cha - Foxtrot - Rumba - Quickstep - Jive - Tango - Samba - Viennese Waltz - Paso Doble - Argentine Tango. 50/50 Ballrom & Latin (alternate) Non stop dancing (for those fit enough!!) Refreshments included in the entrance price.
7.30 - 10.00 pm Entry £3.50
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