Friday, July 9
* ”5”, exhibition bringing together work by former and current artists in residence, Ralph Juergen Colmar, Lucy Harvey, Katherine Sullivan, Prija Chonan, and Annabelle Shelton, at ABERYSTWYTH Arts Centre to July 14.
* BISHOPS CASTLE REAL ALE FESTIVAL, weekend event with music and food in most town pubs including the Wayne Martin Band and Bishops Castle All Skas at the Vaults and Sweetwater at the Six Bells tonight. Punk covers band Guttersnipe and Smoke Like a Fish will be at the Vaults, and Greased Monkeys at the Six Bells on Saturday.
* ”VALLEY”, paintings by local artist Robert Cunning on to August 14 at the BLEDDFA Trust Centre near Knighton.
* ”THE CARETAKER” (pictured above), London Classic Theatre’s production of the Harold Pinter classic, at Wyeside Arts Centre, BUILTH WELLS.
* LLANFYLLIN FESTIVAL OF MUSIC 2010, closing weekend starts with another in the set of concerts by the famed Allegri String Quartet at St Myllin’s Church, with the Medlock String Quartet performing works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Brahms. Full festival details on the www.llanfyllinfestival.org.uk website.
* ”LUDLOW FESTIVAL, Shakespeare production of “Othello”at LUDLOW Castle ends this Saturday, July 10, with festival finale featuring tribute bands Killer Queen and Desperado on Sunday night, July 11.
* LUDLOW FRINGE FESTIVAL, at the Bull Hotel with Borderline Blues tonight, and Ricky Cool and the Hoola Boola Boys on Saturday July 10.
* MUSEUM OF MODERN ART WALES, new exhibition at the MACHYNLLETH gallery features “Common Threads” by environmental campaigner artist Caitlin Shepherd on to September 4.
* JUDITH MOY, opening of exhibition of new paintings by the Shrewsbury-based artist, at CountryWorks Gallery, MONTGOMERY, until August 11.
* HICKMAN & QUINN, Shrewsbury-based musicians James Hickman and Chris Quinn drawing from the rich traditions of British folk and American roots with new album “Times”, at The Exchange, NEWTOWN, with free admission.
* RE-ANIMATE, new exhibition of contemporary animation by 39 artists from across the UK at the Oriel Davies Gallery, NEWTOWN together with prize winners in the competition launched last December reflecting animation at its most diverse and fascinating. A screening night will be held on July 22.
Visitors have to early August to chose their favourite for the People’s Choice Prize.
Also on to August 18 is Dawn Woolley’s “Interloper”, short digital video loop examining female stereotyping.
* ANNE JENVEY, photographic artist who has lived in Newtown for 16 years, with exhibition until the end of July at the Theatr Hafren bar gallery, NEWTOWN.
* WORDS & MUSIC FOR A SUMMER EVENING, with Richard Duncan on recorders and Bryan Holland on harpsichord, and poems and stories by Richard Beaumond and Val Littlehales, at Leasowes Bank Farm, RATLINGHOPE.
* STRING THING, at the Horseshoe Inn, RATLINGHOPE.
* ”IN THIS PLACE”, new local CARAD history and nature exhibition with sculpture, photography and poetry created by local people, on to late October at RHAYADER Museum and Gallery.
* NICKY JACQUES JAZZ, free lunchtime concert at St Chad’s Church, SHREWSBURY.
* TONY HADLEY, RICK ASTLEY, ABC & GO WEST, Summer Sessions concert in The Quarry, SHREWSBURY.
* ”LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS”, new local amateur performance company Get Your Wiggle On’s debut show with the popular sci-fi musical about the carnivorous singing plant, at Theatre Severn, SHREWSBURY tonight and at 2.30 and 7.30pm on Saturday July 10.
* SHROPSHIRE ART SOCIETY, summer exhibition at St Mary’s Church, SHREWSBURY to July 17.
* UP ALL NIGHT & ROUGH DIAMOND, local bands in open air concert at Gregynog Hall, TREGYNON.
Saturday, July 10
* ”BOB, THE MAN ON THE MOON”, Sixth Sense Theatre for Young People working with Travelling Light on family show based on the award winning book by Simon Batram, at ABERYSTWYTH Arts Centre, at 2.30pm.
* KAWA CIRCUS, amazing wandering circus artists from Rajasthan including traditional North Indian live music at 12noon and 3pm, plus circus workshops, at the SpArC Centre, BISHOPS CASTLE.
* MAESMAWR ART GALLERY, the CAERSWS gallery hosts workshop from 10am today in association with the new “Humourous Figures exhibition by award winning Welsh artist Euryl Stevens.
Her work is highly inventive and energetic, with insightful observations of Welsh women combining the hilarity of Beryl Cook and the seriousness and poignancy of Lowry's Salford.
Call Cathy Knapp: 01686 688369/ 07970671819 or info@midwalesarts.org.uk.
* MONTGOMERYSHIRE LADIES CHOIR, plus guests in Summer Concert at St Edward’s Church, KNIGHTON, £6 on the door including refreshments.
The choir has weekly rehearsals on Wednesdays at NEWTOWN Evangelical Church at 7.30pm. All choir enquiries to secretary Gay Roberts on 01686 630678 or visit www-cor-Merched-Maldwyn.org
* MIDDLETOWN SHOW, with evening hog roast with Tony Hughes and Mike Taylor entertaining.
* POWYS DANCE FESTIVAL, gala event at Theatr Hafren, NEWTOWN.
* MARION ROWLATT, invites you for another gathering around the piano singing for fun at PRESTEIGNE Assembly Rooms from 11am.
* RHAYADER & DISTRICT MALE VOICE CHOIR, with soloist Matilda Phillips, at PRESTEIGNE Baptist Church. Choir rehearsals held from 8pm every Tuesday at the St John Ambulance Building. New CD now on sale at £10 each.
* EPIC 45, plus July Skies, at the Horseshoe Inn, RATLINGHOPE.
* BOBBY WELLINS. British Jazz saxophone great with the Shrewsbury Jazz Trio, in Jazz Network gig at the Hive, SHREWSBURY.
* ARTHUR EBELING, Dutch singer songwriter guitarist returns to play the High Street Wheatsheaf, SHREWSBURY.
Also at Revell’s Restaurant, WELSHPOOL on Saturday, July 17.
Sunday, July 11
* MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, last of three silent film screenings by Paul Shallcross has an view of early Stailinist Russia by a fiercely independent film-maker, at Wyeside Arts Centre, BUILTH WELLS.
* LLANFYLLIN FESTIVAL, final concert at St Myllin’s Church with the Allegri String Quartet playing Brahms's clarinet quintet, with Mark Simpson, Young Musician of the Year 2006, plus works by Ravel and Stravinsky.
Monday, July 12
* BUILTH WELLS MALE VOICE CHOIR, meet every Monday at 7.30pm for practice in the Greyhound Hotel Builth Wells. New members welcome.
* ACOUSTIC NIGHTS, singers and songwriters welcome at the Golden Lion Hotel, LLANDYSILIO, every Monday and Wednesday.
* MID WALES MALE VOICE CHOIR, rehearsals with conductor Otto Fruedenthal at 7.30pm every Monday at The Tabernacle, MACHYNLLETH.
* BANDAMANIA, meetings of the popular folk community orchestra continue at PRESTEIGNE Assembly Rooms at 7.15pm on Mondays. New players are always welcome.
* OPEN MIC NIGHT, new singers and acoustic music welcome at The Horseshoe Inn, RATLINGHOPE.
* MODERN JIVE CLASSES, weekly classes on Mondays at 7.45pm for beginners; 9pm for intermediates, and freestyle from 10.30pm at the Lion Hotel, SHREWSBURY. Call 078123 69702 for details.
Tuesday, July 13
* KNIGHTON TOWN SILVER BAND, rehearsals under musical director Steve Edwards held at KNIGHTON Drill Hall at 7.30pm every Tuesday and welcome new members.
* NEARLY NEW, Knighton artist Dean Warburton’s exhibition for Celf o Gwmpas at the Beaufort Gallery, LLANDRINDOD WELLS. The artist scours charity shops, salvage yards and skips in search of materials with a previous life or another purpose and reclaims them in his mixed media work. Gallery open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10am to 4pm to July 30. Call 01597 822777.
* MICKFEST, with bands and barbecue from 6pm at LLANFYLLIN High School.
* NEWTOWN MALE VOICE CHOIR, weekly practise on Tuesdays with new members welcome at the United Reformed Church at 7.30pm.
* BORDER FOLK COMMUNITY NIGHTS, musicians and singers welcome at weekly sessions from 9pm at The Grapes, NEWTOWN.
* JAM SESSION, with all musicians welcome every Tuesday from 9pm at the Black Boy Hotel, NEWTOWN.
* RHAYADER JAM, session at The Cornhill Inn every Tuesday from 8pm for performers of all types. More information at www.i.am/jamming and www.myspace.com/rhayaderjam or telephone the pub on 01597 810029.
Wednesday, July 14
* BUILTH WELLS & DISTRICT LADIES' CHOIR, rehearsals every Wednesday at 7.45pm at the Wesley Chapel, Garth Road, BUILTH WELLS. New members welcome, Details and bookings on 01982 552514.
* OPEN MIC NIGHT, with Martin Blake, at the White Horse Inn, CLUN.
* LLANDRINDOD SILVER BAND, practises at LLANDRINDOD WELLS Primary School, at Cefnllys, with junior band practise at 6pm followed by senior band practise from 7pm. Call 01597 823260 for more information or visit band's website Llandrindod-silver-band.org.uk.
* ACOUSTIC SESSIONS, informal folk, blues and jazz every Wednesday from 8.30pm now at the Elephant, LLANIDLOES. Musicians welcome.
* LIVE JAZZ, informal music sessions with local musicians at the Dragon Hotel, MONTGOMERY, from 9pm on Wednesdays.
* OPEN MIC NIGHT, every Wednesday at Norton Manor Hotel, PRESTEIGNE from 8pm. Call 01547520843 or email welshmusicevents@yahoo.co.uk
* TONY SKEGGS, popular regular singer songwriter at the Horseshoe Inn, RATLINGHOPE.
Also at the High Street Wheatsheaf, SHREWSBURY, on Thursday, July 15.
Thursday, July 15
* THE MOUTHS, at The Vaults, BISHOPS CASTLE.
* NEWTOWN SILVER BAND, practises at the NEWTOWN Band Room every Thursday from 7.30pm with all welcome. Also Junior Band practices at 6.30pm every Thursday,
* BRO HAFREN CHILDREN'S CHOIR, rehearsals held every Thursday from 4pm at Treowen School, NEWTOWN. Children aged seven to 11 years are welcome to go along and sing, conducted by Ann Evans. Ring 01686 627076 to register an interest.
* ELO EXPERIENCE, former members of the Electric Light Orchestra recreate the band’s greatest hits live at Theatre Severn, SHREWSBURY.
* OPEN ACOUSTIC NIGHT, at the Old Post Office, SHREWSBURY.
Friday, July 16
* FIGHT THE BEAR, home town gig for the ska band at the Three Tuns, BISHOPS CASTLE.
* ”THE TEMPEST”, popular outdoor theatre company The Festival Players stage Shakespeare’s great last play with all male cast, at the National Park Visitor Centre, LIBANUS, at 7.30pm. For tickets call 01874 623366 or email visitor.centre@breconbeacons.org
* LUKE DAY BAND, Welshpool guitar vocalist at the Old New Inn, LLANFYLLIN.
* FLAXENBY, contemporary folk trio at the Lowfield Inn, MARTON with free admission.
* BLUE ROOSTER, at The Exchange, NEWTOWN with free admission.
* INGRID CUSTIDO, free lunchtime piano recital at St Chad’s Church, SHREWSBURY, at 12.40pm.
* BIG BAND BASH, Presteigne Ladies Hockey Club event with Ffloyd Earl and Sherri Trifle, at TITLEY Village Hall.
Saturday, July 17
* BE THE BAND, workshop for 10 to 25 year olds leading to production of a rock CD, at the SpArC Theatre, BISHOPS CASTLE. Call 01588 630243.
* OF ONE ACCORD, four times winners of the Eisteddfod Open Choirs Competition, conducted by Alison Stevens and accompanied by Ann Taylor with guest appearances of previous Eisteddfod winners, at Mary Webb School, PONTESBURY, in aid of Minsterley and District
Eisteddfod.
* HORSES BRAWL, modern folk duet of Laura Cannell and Adrian Lever playing traditional music with influences from renaissance, medieval, baroque and folk, in the Music at Leasowes Bank Festival season, at RATLINGHOPE.
Sunday, July 18
* FESTIVAL OF DANCE, fun day of workshops and exhibition dances at Theatre Severn, SHREWSBURY.
* MID WALES OPERA SUMMER GALA, Welsh National Opera’s star soprano Camilla Roberts is welcomed back for their ever-popular annual concert at Gregynog, TREGYNON, at 6pm. She will sing the lead role of Adina in a concert version in Italian of Donizetti’s comic opera “L’Elisir d’Amore, (The Love Potion)”; joined by a team of distinguished international soloists including several of MWO’s favourite artists. For tickets, price £20, send a cheque made payable to Mid Wales Opera to: Mid Wales Opera, Bryn Wgan, Trefeglwys, Caersws, SY17 5QU, together with a stamped addressed envelope, or call Mid Wales Opera on 01686-441027 for information.
* WELSHPOOL COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL, annual one day Heulwen Trust charity event at Powis Castle Showfield, with the Johnny Cash Roadshow tribute band, Australian Nicki Gillis, Chrissy Byrne and Louusuana, Magill, and Paul Challinor among those appearing.