This is Somerset --This year's Frome Festival has a wide-ranging mix of music taking place every night, starting tonight with the amazing Zen Hussies, New Groove Formation and Oscillator – featuring artists from the Levellers tour, the Kooks, Elastica and Los Albertos.
There's an after party thrown in at the Griffin with DJ Jivefish, to take you into the early hours.
Alternatively, tonight, you could choose Benjamin Britten opera Turn Of The Screw, complete with 14-piece orchestra in the intimate setting of Cooper Hall. It's a ghostly tale of lost innocence and dark deeds with a sublime score, incredible musicians and young professional singers. Or by way of a contrast, Rook Lane Chapel is featuring Passamezzo, in full Elizabethan costume, performing on period instruments.
And last, but in no way least, enjoy the wonderful local band The Critters playing their hearts out at the Cornerhouse from 9pm.
Tomorrow, the wonderful Frome Festival Feast will feature live music, Turn Of The Screw is on for its final night and Rick's Café will be up and running at the Cornerhouse, complete with Sam on piano.
There'll also be a chance to catch the award-winning Labyrinth Choir, who have come all the way from Prague to perform a candlelit concert at St John's Church.
Ease your way into an lazy Sunday morning with John Plaxton's Jazz Brunch at the Cornerhouse, featuring his resident Honk Masters, from 10.30am until noon.
There'll be jazz at the Blue House in the afternoon for free, with some audience participation thrown in for free.
On Sunday evening, choose from the Frome Symphony Orchestra playing Ravel, Debussy and Sibelius at the Cheese and Grain, or immerse yourself in Northern Indian Rag and Taal played by Ricky Romain and Jon Sterckx.
Catch these virtuoso players at the Jhalmuri restaurant and enjoy an authentic Indian banquet to go with it. Jazzmin is on at the Granary, too, supporting the work of the wonderfully named Mama Upendo Children's Orphanage in Kenya.
Local jazz musicians will be out in force.
Monday offers you a Jazz Lunch at the Old Bath Arms, followed by an evening performance at the same venue, both featuring pianist Bob Brace.
Eddie Martin will be adding some blues to the mix with his gig at the Granary.
Tuesday has an eclectic mix on offer. Immerse yourself in the English classical tradition as Christ Church presents Oh Fair to See, for tenor and piano, from 1pm onwards.
Then choose in the evening between salty sea dogs, The Bristol Shantymen, at the Tin Church, Brokerswood, or fall for the smooth, Gallic charm of Clayson singing the 'chanson' of Jacques Brel at the Granary.
By Wednesday, the choice is pretty overwhelming, with more than seven live acts to decide between and the music including jazz, rebel music, rootsy blues, solo guitarists and electronica.
Pick of the day promises to be the charismatic John Power, who takes to the stage at the Cheese and Grain for an intimate acoustic gig, unplugged and pared down to just a trio. Catch him before heads off to Liverpool, where he'll be playing Lennon in the musical of the same name – a role that Frome's Mark McGann played the first time round.
Thursday sees Olivia Chaney visit Cooper Hall – surely one of the festival highlights this year.
She has all the hallmarks of a young woman set for worldwide acclaim. She combines a wonderful folk sensibility with the charm of a latter day Joni Mitchell. The gig is pretty much sold out, so get in quick with ticket requests.
Other gigs that night that should by no means be overlooked include the wonderful Frukes at the Cornerhouse, The Branco Stoysin Trio at the Silk Mill and the Demoniacs at the Griffin.
The final festival weekend keeps the music coming.
Don't miss the incredible Afrobeat Messengers at ECOS. Percussionist Lekan Babalola and his clarinettist wife Kate Luxmoore are new arrivals in Frome and they bring a world of musical experience with them.
Dance to music handed down by the late, great Fela Kuti, get into the afrobeat groove and experience first hand the joy of their combined musical vision. Femi Sofela joins them on bass, while Ebenezer Oke plays guitar.
At Rook Lane Chapel, Gary Fletcher and his band will be playing rootsy, contemporary folk and My Social Orbit will be churning out the hits at the Griffin for free.
There will be a lunchtime performance of Schubert, Chopin and Rachmaninov on Saturday, July 13, by pianist Stephen Marquiss at Cooper Hall.
July 13 also sees a local 16-piece choir, the Christ Church Singers, perform Gibbons, Purcell, Stanford and Britten at Christ Church.
The evening fun kicks off with Frome's self-billed slackest funk band, the wonderful Fat Stanley, getting their groove on at Rook Lane Chapel.
Over at the Silk Mill, Sensonic are bringing together a host of DJs, VJs and artists in an audio-visual club night from 8pm until the wee small hours.
There will be gypsy jazz at the Cornerhouse for all Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli fans, while over at the Griffin the Edsel Furys will be tearing up the floor for free.
Hank Wangford will be hosting the Frome Ole Oprey at the Cheese and Grain – together with local favourites, The Shackduster, the Frukes and Back Before Breakfast.
And last, but surely not least, world class classical pianist, Ashley Wass, will be taking to the Steinway at Cooper Hall for an evening of Beethoven, Barber and Liszt.
The final day of the festival kicks off with another Jazz Brunch at the Cornerhouse and eases its way into a concert by the Jackdaws Songbirds at Christ Church from 2pm until 4pm.
Meanwhile, over at St Katherine's Church in East Woodlands, Duo Domenico are two cellists who will play anything stringed between three and five, with a break for tea in the village hall.
And that just leaves the fabulous Pete Gage Blues Band to see the festival out in style at the Cornerhouse.
Swaying, dancing or stomping – what's the difference? It's the taking part that counts! And they'll all be there from four in the afternoon onwards.
For sheer musical diversity, the organisers reckon that the Frome Festival really can't be beaten. Get your grooves on, leap to the beat, suspend your musical parameters and treat your ears to ten days of wonderment…
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