eventful
There are some exciting events happening this year.
For a comprehensive listing, which is updated weekly,
go to
visitwyevalley.com. The location of each event
is shown by a map reference in brackets.
January
13th February–
8–17 Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival
31st october
Treowen Manor, near Monmouth (C4)
wyevalleyfestival.com
The saddest day
16 – 9 May Dinosaurs in your Garden:
of our lives
Exhibition Abergavenny Museum (B4)
An exhibition at the Nelson Museum,
abergavennymuseum.co.uk
Monmouth, to mark the 100th anniversary
16 Mari Lwyd & Wassail Chepstow (D6)
of Charles Rolls’ early death (1877-1910)
tworiversfolkfestival.com
at the controls of his Wright bi-plane.
Discover the exploits and achievements
16 The Trials of the Chartists
of this pioneer motorist and aviator, the
Monmouth (D4)
newport.ac.uk/chartist
youngest son of one of Monmouthshire’s
25 –31 World Snooker Welsh Open
wealthiest land-owning families. (D4)
at the Newport Centre (B7)
nelsonmuseum.co.uk
worldsnooker.com
February May
22–23 British Eventing Mount Ballan
Horse Trials David Broome Equestrian
15 –19 Roman Soldier Workshops 1 – 2 Border Counties Steam & Vintage Show
Centre & Caldicot Castle (C7)
For children. National Roman Including flypast by a Spitfire.
mountballanhorsetrials.co.uk
Legion Museum, Caerleon (B6) Monmouth showground (D4) 24 Monmouth Regatta (D4)
museumwales.ac.uk bordercountiesvintageclub.co.uk
monmouthrc.org.uk
24 Llanover Garden School 3 Pear and Perry Festival 28–31 Welsh Perry and Cider Festival
near Abergavenny (B5) Great Trerhew Barn, Llanvetherine (B4) Clytha Arms, near Abergavenny (B5)
llanovergarden.co.uk villagealivetrust.org.uk
welshcider.co.uk
March
7– 9 Tredegar House Folk Festival 29–31 Welsh Waterways Festival
Newport (A7) Kimberley Park, Newport (B6)
5–19 Monmouth Women’s Festival (D4)
tredegarhousefolk.ik.com mon-brec-canal-trust.org.uk
monmouthwomensfestival.org.uk
8 –16 Llantilio Crossenny Festival 30–31 Abergavenny Steam,
6 March of the Giants
near Abergavenny (B4) Veteran and Vintage Rally (B4)
Carnival parade in Newport (B7)
llantiliocrossenny.com abergavennysteamrally.co.uk
newport.gov.uk/newportfestival
15 Big Black Mountains Challenge 31–5 June Rolls Revue A light-hearted
13 Catrin Finch, Wales’ best-known harpist,
around Abergavenny (B4) celebration of the life of Charles Rolls.
teams up with Colombian band Cimarron.
longtownmrt.org.uk Monmouth (D4)
festivals.adventa.org.uk
The Riverfront, Newport (B7)
newport.gov.uk/theriverfront
1 May–5 September
20 Craft Fair
Chepstow Racecourse (D6)
Artists and the
chepstow-racecourse.co.uk Wye Tour 1770 –1850
27 South Wales Three Peaks Trial Chepstow Museum hosts a major exhibition
Abergavenny (B4)
threepeakstrial.co.uk of watercolours depicting The Wye Tour,
27 Monteverdi Vespers
Britain’s first package holiday. Tourists
St. Mary’s Priory Church, Abergavenny (B4)
travelled in canopied rowing boats on a
gwentbachsociety.co.uk
two-day trip, with a stop-over in Monmouth,
following in the wake of Reverend William
April
Gilpin who invented the quest for ‘picturesque’
scenery. This exhibition features nearly a
4 –5 The Sealed Knot
hundred pictures – farm workers as well as
Civil War battle gathering at Caldicot Castle (C7)
the famous sites. It includes works by the
caldicotcastle.co.uk
masters, including JMW Turner and Michael
7–24 A Brush with Light Photography
Angelo Rooker, and also paintings by
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Exhibition at The Riverfront, Newport (B7)
The Chancel and Crossing of Tintern Abbey, amateurs, sketch books, prints and
Looking towards the East Window, 1794 ©Tate, London 2008
newport.gov.uk/theriverfront
guidebooks. (D6)
monmouthshire.gov.uk
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