What’s on June 19
Carducci String Quartet Drill Hall, Chepstow 7.30pm Cost: £15 The award-winning Carduccis bring their energy and skill to provide a powerful and exciting string quartet experience performing well known classical pieces as well as more recent piece by Philip Glass’ Mishima Quartet.
June 22
Four Short Plays Drill Hall, Chepstow 6.30pm £4 The Youth Council of Chepstow presents four new plays which are written, performed, directed, organised and designed by young people.
June 24
Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones Abergavenny Borough Theatre 7pm - 8pm Cost: £7.50, Family £28 Enjoy an hour of innovative shadow puppet theatre where regular household junk becomes a fantasy shadow puppet cartoon with flying chickens, brain transplants and ninjas.
June 24
Folk Concert – Woody Mann Drill Hall, Chepstow 7.30pm Cost: £6 Singer songwriter and guitar master Woody Mann is one of America’s most influential artists and will be down the Drill Hall performing an array of his own material based around jazz and blues music from the 20s and 30s.
June 25
Chepstow Carnival Severn Bridge Club, Chepstow 12pm Starting at the Severn Bridge Club the carnival will parade through the town and ending at the riverside with a ‘fun filled family festival’. More info: 07707 082681
July 15 –16
Our House Abergavenny Borough Theatre 7.30pm Cost: £10 (concession £8) Visions in Glass youth theatre bring to the stage a must-see, feel-good musical based around the music of the band Madness.
July 15 – August 26
Turn up and Tour Parva Farm, Tintern 11.30am – 5.30pm Cost: £5 Tickle your tastebuds with some award- winning Welsh wines down at Parva Farm while exploring the Wye Valley Vineyard. More info:
www.parvafarm.com
June 26
Dragon Boat Race Monmouth Rowing Club – River Wye 11am - 3pm Cost: £50 per team Enjoy a day rowing on the River Wye. Teams are made up of 14 paddlers and one drummer. Be quick in booking your place on the boat, as spaces are limited.
July 1
Joshua Mills Savoy Theatre, Monmouth 7.30pm - 9.30pm Cost: £12.50 One of Wales’ most promising young tenors Joshua Mills performs an evening of Opera classics and West End hits. More info:
www.monmouthsavoy.co.uk
July 8
Midnight walk around 2010 Ryder Cup course at Celtic Manor Resort Celtic Manor Resort 11pm - 2am Cost: £15 Women are invited to come along and walk around the eight-mile 2010 Ryder Cup course in the dark of night all in the name of charity. The walk is designed for all fitness levels and the money raised goes to the St David’s Foundation.
July 17
Vintage /Classic Car Rally Mamhilad Park, Pontypool 9.30am - 3pm Cost: £20 cars, £7 motorbikes Browse around the vintage and classic cars on display before questing upon a scenic 80 – 100 mile drive around South Wales. All money raised will go towards St David’s Foundation.
July 23
Claytime Abergavenny Borough Theatre 2.30pm Cost: £6 Interactive theatre where creatures and characters are created through the imagination of children of the audience using clay as a means of story telling.
July 23 - 24
Castell Roc Chepstow Castle 6.30pm - 11pm Cost: £5 (advance booking only) Chepstow’s favourite community festival ‘Rock in the Dell’ is back under a new name and a stunning new location. The event takes place over two nights and features such local favorites as ‘Graveyard Johnnys’ and ‘Major Tom’. More info: Hannahs Music Chepstow - 01291 627122 or Abergavenney 01873 857721 or
www.hannahsmusic.co.uk
July 26 - 30
Treasure Zone Holiday Club 2pm - 5pm Chepstow Baptist Church Cost: £2 a session Children aged five to nine can take part in games, puppetry, activities, crafts and other activities.
August 1 - 7
Local Cider and Beer Week Abbey Mill, Tintern 12pm – 5.30pm Cost: £2.85 Try out the wide selection of beers available from Tintern’s own brewery and Wye Valley Ciders. More info:
www.abbeymill.com
If you’ve got an event you’d like us to include on this page please e-mail MCL editor Jo Barnes –
jo.barnes@
gwent-wales.co.uk. Any we can’t use in the magazine due to deadlines, we will publicise it on our Twitter page –
www.twitter.com/mclmagazine or at
www.monmouthshirecountylife.co.uk/news
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A selection of just some of the events going on in Monmouthshire. Compiled by Darius Woronycz
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