17:30 - 21:00 HOG ROAST Mouth-watering aromas waft through the town centre as Hinton Hogroasts turn and baste the annual festival hog. Blue House Forecourt Event 918
17:30 - 22:00 FROME FESTIVAL FEAST This year’s Festival Feast joins forces with Acoustic Plus to present fine food and music inside and out along Frome’s South Bank. There will be space to stand, dance, sit and eat and an area for children’s activities. Food stalls run by Frome enterprises will offer a range of global cuisines made from locally sourced ingredients. Performers include the Boot Hill All Stars, Kimwei, Australia’s Fergusson on Irish bouzouki, and jazz duo John Law and Nick Sorenson. The music will start outside and flow into the Cheese & Grain as dusk falls. Market Yard Car Park Free. Event 919
20:00 - 21:15 THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME What makes a woman in trousers so appealing? Mezzo-soprano Jessica Walker and theatre director Neil Bartlett conjure up swaggering cross-dressers from the Victorian Music Hall period to the ambiguous boy-heroes of Mozart and Strauss in a provocative, flirtatious and personal one-woman guide to a forgotten chapter of female performance. Rook Lane Chapel £10 / £8 students & unemployed. Event 920
21:00 THE ELECTRIC ZIG ZAG TEST DJ’s Mike and Andy spin a bell-bottomed brew of 1960’s Mod soundtracks, funky psych-outs, Hammond cheese-fests and sitar floor-shakers. Prizes for best fancy dress hippie, mod & go-go costumes! Griffin Inn Free. Event 921
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Bill Smarme
Frome Festival Feast Jessica Walker
22:00 - 24:00 BILL SMARME & THE BIZNESS International entertainer, ladies man, bon viveur and building contractor Bill Smarme leads his band The Bizness on an off-beat and often hilarious musical odyssey. Nashville, tribute rock, popular musicals and easy- listening schmaltz all receive the Smarme treatment.
www.billsmarme.com Archangel £4. Event 922
22:00 LATE NIGHT CANDLELIT CHORAL CONCERT Music director David Ogden conducts the critically-acclaimed Exultate Singers in a debut festival performance at the annual late night candlelit concert. As this year’s festival celebrates the town’s links with the Pre-Raphaelite art movement in the 1850s, the concert pays tribute to its artistic influence on the next generation of British composers, with works by Elgar, Stanford, Ireland, and Parry, while special backlighting of the church’s Burne-Jones Pre-Raphaelite stained-glass windows provides a stunning setting for the performance. Holy Trinity Church £14. Event 923
Box Office 01373 455420
cheeseandgraintickets@hotmail.com office@fromefestival.co.uk
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