The New Forest Folk Festival is the small and friendly folk festival with the big names. Located on the Curtis family farm at Plaitford near Romsey

The unspoilt farm settings and forest walks make it the perfect place for a relaxing long weekend with great music, workshops, sing-alongs and morris dancing not to mention real ale, wine, cider and delicious home cooked food including Leon's famous vegetarian cuisine. Headline acts include Show of Hands "Now we are Four, Cregan & Co, Home Service, Skerryvore, Ashley Hutchings "Dylancentric", Phil Beer Band, Joe Broughton'sConservatoire Folk Ensemble, Martyn Josephand much more.

July 1st - July 5th - Gates open Wednesday at noon. Thursday live music at The Fringe 11am - 11pm, Fri/Sat/Sun Main Stage noon until 11pm

www.newforestfolkfestival.co.uk

5 Day Ticket £105

Day Ticket £40, Children 5-15 half price (under 5 free)

Prices rise after 1st June (see website)

This exciting and innovative production was first performed in Stockbridge Town Hall in November 2019 and is being revived for two outdoor performances in the beautiful garden of The Burrow, Longstock - courtesy of Nigel and Kerry Lynne.

Director John Baxter has cut the text so that the play runs for just over an hour with no interval. This abridged version keeps the essence of the play and generates a distinctive intensity and unrelenting pace. The cast of ten actors play multiple roles and create their own percussion soundtrack for the show, which will be performed live.

There will be two performances - Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th July. Ticket Prices: £10

Romsey Festival is a celebration and showcase of the exceptional expressive arts, crafts and musical talent from Romsey and the surrounding villages and a focus for community events.

The Festival showcases a wide variety of events, including:

• Lunchtime and evening recitals and performances

• Family craft events

• Exhibitions and displays

• Guided walks and open gardens

• Tours of local buildings

• Events from the overlapping Festival of Youth Music and the Beggars Fair

• The Mayor’s Picnic

• Brewery tour

 

For details of all the events, please visit our website.

Dates: Saturday 4th – Sunday 19th July

Email: info@romseyfestival.org

Website: https://www.romseyfestival.org

This exciting and innovative production was first performed in Stockbridge Town Hall in November 2019 and is being revived for two outdoor performances in the beautiful garden of The Burrow, Longstock - courtesy of Nigel and Kerry Lynne.

Director John Baxter has cut the text so that the play runs for just over an hour with no interval. This abridged version keeps the essence of the play and generates a distinctive intensity and unrelenting pace. The cast of ten actors play multiple roles and create their own percussion soundtrack for the show, which will be performed live.

There will be two performances - Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th July. Ticket Prices: £10

Stanley (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) want to attend the yearly convention of the Sons of the Desert, a fraternal group to which they belong. When Ollie's wife, Lollie (Mae Busch), objects, he feigns sickness, and Stanley gets a doctor to prescribe a fake trip to Hawaii. After Stanley and Ollie revel with the Sons of the Desert, they return home to find out the ship they were supposedly on has sunk in a typhoon, and they're forced to cover their tracks.

Showing as part of Romsey Festival 2020

Ticket Prices: £6.50

Performed by Stockbridge Primary School Our Key Stage 2 children (aged 7-11 years old) will be performing Wind in the Willows as their annual summer production and opening it to the wider public for the first time. As well as enjoying a children’s classic they will be developing their ‘on stage’ presence and performing voices. Tired of spring-cleaning, Mole leaves Mole End and ventures out to the riverbank, where he befriends the resourceful Ratty, the gruff Badger and the infamous Toad of Toad Hall (Poop-poop!). Together they explore the Wide World, and the Wild Wood, and try to keep Toad out of trouble!

There will be an additional performance at 6pm

Free entry - no booking required

The Romsey Allotment Holders Association welcome you to our plots in an Open Afternoon. Our entry gates are off Knatchbull Close (SO51 8AF) and Southampton Road opposite the Rapids Health Club, and the gates are linked by a gravel road. Seasonal produce will be available at the Knatchbull Close entrance for a donation to the allotment funds.

Allotments are of increasing interest throughout the country, with all the advantages and choices they bring: organic, locally grown, heirloom varieties, exercise in the outdoors in good company, promoting biodiversity and helping to arrest the decline in insect pollinators. All these different interests are expressed in our allotments.

We have plot holders who grow plants for dyeing wool, who strive to grow the biggest and best, who follow no-dig soil cultivation, who create wildlife habitat, who have immaculate plots, and those who grow vegetables in a cottage-garden medley. We welcome you to wander among our plots, enjoying the diversity and beauty of growing plants, and the various structures in place for utility and art.

We are proud to be the only allotment site in Hampshire (and one of about four in the UK) to be part of the British Butterfly Conservation survey, and our results contribute to their national database. In the long term, our data will provide valuable evidence of trends of these beautiful but threatened creatures. Come and see the plants our butterflies and moths rely on.

We even have a cultural history - In Victorian times, our plot of land was used as a rubbish tip, and Victorian rubbish is occasionally still dug up; however, allotments have been on this site for the past 120 years. The present Association was formed in 1942 to protect against the land from a proposed housing development, an ever-present threat, and Lord Mountbatten of Burma was elected the first President of the Association. We still rent our site from the Broadlands Estate.

Ticket Prices: Free

Film followed by Q& A session with historian and secret factory engineer Norman Parker.   Secret Spitfires is the remarkable story of how WWII Spitfire fighter aircraft were built in secret right in the heart of Southern England. It has taken 75 years for this story to come to light. It tells of how hundreds of girls, boys, women, elderly men and a handful engineers built the iconic fighter plane the Spitfire, in secret, hidden in sheds, depots, garages, barns and even a hotel. So hidden, Hitler's spies couldn’t find them and have them bombed. The story starts with Hitler’s determination to destroy Spitfire production and to achieve air superiority as a prelude to invasion. What he and his generals didn’t know was that as they were destroying the main Spitfire factories in Southampton, manufacturing was being moved to secret factories in rural cities, small towns and villages, including nearby Chattis Hill, Salisbury and Winchester. The secret was so well kept, even the family and friends of the workers never knew what they did and where they worked. This documentary demanded to be made to get it on record before no one was left to tell the story first hand.   Tickets: £5.00 available online from 1 June 2020 via our website

When small-time con-artist Freddy Benson (Steve Martin) invades the lucrative Riviera turf of old pro Lawrence Jamieson (Michael Caine), the latter agrees to take him on and tutor him in the methods of fleecing wealthy widows. However, it is not long before Freddy is chafing at the second banana role imposed on him by Lawrence, and when a beautiful American heiress (Glenne Headly) arrives in town, the duelling scamsters agree to a contest; whoever gets their hands on her money first forces the loser to leave town for good. Showing as part of Romsey Festival 2020 Ticket Prices: £6.50

Monthly concerts of melodic, easy listening music, performed on electronic keyboards by a range of top professional players.

Ample free parking, interval refreshments.  Doors open 7.00 p.m.

Tickets £5

Available from Just Teasin (Hair Stylist), 40 Bridge Street, Andover - or at the door.

Promoters: Weyhill Electronic Organ Society (WEOS)

16 January .................................. STEVE HUBBLE

20 February ............................ ANDREW VARLEY

19 March ...................................... PAUL CARMAN

16 April .......................... ELIZABETH HARRISON

21 May ........................................... CHRIS JONES

18 June ....................................... KEVIN GRUNILL

16 July ................................................ IAN HOUSE

20 August ......................................... DAVID LAST

17 September .................................. IAN GRIFFIN

15 October ............................ MARK THOMPSON

19 November ................................ DANIEL WATT

17 December .................................. JAMES GOFF

Gerald Dodson, the owner of the Wykeham Gallery started the Wykeham Young Arts Project in 2018 to support the Arts in Education in the local community.  A winning piece of art  is chosen from each school in the project which now includes Farleigh, Test Valley School, Cheam and Peter Symonds.  The work is then displayed for two weeks in our High Street windows.

Gerald believes that exhibiting the students work in a commercial environment will build enthusiasm and encourage aspirations in the young, proving that possibilities are infinite at any age.  Both years there have been offers to buy these works,  which is wonderfully exciting for these young students and a real confidence builder.

The works will be on show from 17th-31st July and the gallery is open 10-5 daily

A gathering in Romsey of the three twin towns in Europe with which Romsey is partnered, in the year that marks the 60th anniversary of Romsey's original twinning with Paimpol. This is the first time that the four communities involved - Paimpol in France, Battenberg in Germany, Treviglio in Italy, and Romsey - will have met together. Mayors and civic representatives are being invited to attend. Romsey Twinning, which is hosting the event, has invited each partner town to include in their delegation artists from their communities who can showcase their work and contribute to the final weekend of the Romsey Festival.

17 - 19 July 2020. Details of the weekend programme will be announced in due course.

Further information from romseytwinning@gmail.com 01794 518275 http://www.romseynet.org.uk/twinning/index.html

Starring Dev Patel and Tilda Swinton Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD brings to life one of the author’s most cherished characters. From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.

Showings at 3.30pm and 7pm

Tickets £6.50

Starring Dev Patel and Tilda Swinton Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD brings to life one of the author’s most cherished characters. From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.

Showings at 3.30pm and 7pm

Tickets £6.50

A practical and fun course, ideal for people looking to start their own up-cycling painted furniture projects or gain confidence in the use of chalk paint.

The course is a fabulous morning, we work on boards that you can take away with you and we will cover:

Paint application and uses

Blending bespoke colours

Application

Texturing

Modern flat finishes

Colour washes

Distressing

Waxing

Finishing effects with soft wax and laqueur

There is a maximum of 9 delegates per course. A selection of teas, coffee and Burbidges Bakery cake are provided, along with a goody bag to take home & a voucher for La Di Da Interiors.

Courses are run near La Di Da Interiors in Andover town centre

Ticket Price: £69