In a first for the Conwy Classical Music Festival, this year festival-goers and visitors to the town can expect to enjoy a range of genres and styles including folk, jazz, and pop in various locations throughout Conwy between the main festival concerts. Venues including the Hidden Chapel, The Blue Bell, Plas Mawr, and the Jesters Tower will host local musicians, including Finn Ambers, Owen Jones & Bethan Taylor, and Paula Darwish, who will give an unusual offering of Kurdish and Turkish folk played on the traditional Anatolian baglama.
Other highlights include the Conwy Songwriters and Poets Society, where a range of poets and songwriters from across North Wales will convene to share their words in an intimate gathering on Tuesday afternoon, and the Conwy Folk Club who will meet at the Comrade’s Club on Friday afternoon for a Festival Fringe special event. Folk performers hoping to perform a spot should arrive early to secure their place! Welsh music will also be well represented, with offerings from Owen Jones and Bethan Taylor on Tuesday night, and Gwilym Bowen Rhys on Sunday 28th, both at the Liverpool Arms.
Looking for a bite to eat before a concert? The pre-festival dinner at the Hidden Chapel might be just the ticket on Wednesday night, setting you up for the Festival-favourite Night at the Opera at the main festival in St. Mary’s Church. Diners can expect entertainment from the North Wales Guitar Circle, cellist Oliver Pearce, and sax duo Paul Cook and Steve Summers. Booking essential, head to the website for more info.
The Fringe has been made possible by generous funding from the UK SPF fund, in partnership with the Creu Conwy Town Team.
For more info and the full festival programme, please visit the Conwy Classical Music Festival website
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Hi Nic,Brilliant idea to have a Festival Fringe, catering for more tastes. However please can you persuade Chris to make the festival last 2 weeks next year? Even if you just had one Sunday in the middle?Many people have a weekly income, which means that wonderful concerts may get less money in donations as it has to last all week. Two weeks would give patrons twice the income to share out.It would also give us more time to attend concerts as few of us can attend all of them in the time available.It would also be popular with the B&Bs as they would get longer bookings and more to entice people with. Please can we have a couple of Fringe posters for St Benedict’s, 1 for outside,1 inside?I couldn’t get a link to open for an English poster, though your info helped me translate the Welsh one.Also couldn’t make link to email Veg-X work, just ‘untitled link’ and blank.Everything else is brilliant; you are doing such a good job. I’m hoping to do refreshments for tonight’s concert and the Festival ones I attend. Just can’t do every night as we might have guests. waiting for confirmation.love,Heather
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