"Award-winning, festival-storming thrash morris phenomenon" Ents 24
"Big Country in a bar brawl with Thin Lizzy" Stratford Herald
"Masterful instrumentation... glorious harmonies" Folking.com
"Stunning... powerful material played with great style and panache" Coventry Evening Telegraph
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Christmas Concert - Immanuel's Ground - Saturday 14th December
A costumed group of 29 singers and some instrumentalists who perform music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, reviving the psalmody and hymnody of the rural parish church from around 200 years ago, so much beloved of Thomas Hardy and exemplified in his novels and poetry
This raw and exciting music is genuinely "music of the people", which found its way from the established church into the independent chapels, before becoming lost and almost forgotten by the beginning of the twentieth century. The Quire's repertoire also includes secular music from the Georgian period, and psalmody from the American tradition in the same era, taking to heart the instruction of John Wesley to "sing lustily and with good courage"
Tickets available from Ilmington Community Shop and Eventbrite
Sound Bathing is a new offering starting this Wednesday
Starting on 9th October between 7 and 8:15pm with Carole Love www.carolelove.com.
If you find it hard to unwind and relax and perhaps find meditation difficult, then a sound meditation may be just the thing you need. The gongs are a wonderful ancient tool used in sound baths to help us restore inner harmony. Come along and let the sounds of the gongs wash away your worries and take you to a place of stillness whilst reconnecting to a sense of peace
Come and try our Tuesday evening yoga class
THE ESSENCE OF AUDREY - Saturday August 3rd 7:30pm
Glimpse behind the icon in this new biopic play written and performed by Helen Anker. Have you ever wondered what is behind the seemingly idyllic life of Audrey Hepburn? She was, and continues to be, an inspiration. In The Essence of Audrey she shares her successes and failures, her triumphs and disappointments, confronting her anxieties and fears and finding the truth she’s never been able to voice before. Helen Anker has appeared in many shows in the West End and on Broadway, and in numerous regional productions. She is excited to share with you her one-woman play about the life of Audrey Hepburn, which she wrote and created herself during lockdown
Tickets are £12.50 from the Community Shop. Doors/bar open at 7:00 for 7:30 start
SWING FROM PARIS - Saturday 20th July 7.30pm
An evening of Parisian-flavoured jazz and Gypsy Swing at Ilmington Village Hall, presented by UK quartet Swing from Paris.
“intelligent, interesting and inventive” ★ ★ ★ ★ – The Jazz Mann
"awe-inspiring" – Swindon Link
"Clever interpretations and adaptations" – Nub News
Swing from Paris are a quartet of violin, guitars and double bass, inspired by the great swing bands of the 1930s and ’40s. Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian meets Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and the Hot Club of France: expect stylish jazz and vintage swing.
Buy tickets here. £15 in advance, no booking fee.
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MY DOG’S GOT NO NOSE - Saturday 25th May
You join the man as he prepares backstage for his first ever stand-up comedy gig. Something he has waited over 30 years for. Find out how he got to this point in his life... but be warned... the man and the performance are not quite what they seem!
“Giles Shenton held his audience’s attention for nearly two hours; their interest or curiosity in the first half and then to have them fully engrossed in the second before a shocked silence when you could hear a pin drop in the auditorium.” Alton Herald