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08/09/2023

New work from Artmusic and Helen Ottaway -

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Join in with our bell-related workshops n Frome Festival

24/05/2023

Frome Festival Friday 7 July to Sunday 16 July
Events at St John’s
Booking is now open at Festival Box Office
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Frome Festival’s theme for 2023 is based on Rook Lane Arts Trust and Artmusic’s series of events ‘Ring out - a celebration of bell founding and bell-ringing in Frome’.

St John’s will have a display area under the bell tower with info panels on St John’s clock, carillon and bells – in addition to our floral displays ‘Celebrating the seasons’.

Over the ten days of the Festival, St John’s will be hosting the following events:-

Floral displays ‘Celebrating the seasons’ – daily from Friday 7 July, 11am–4pm: Floral and visual displays by the people of St John’s Church, in conjunction with the Frome Floral Art Society, who will be celebrating their 70th anniversary this year, and also with local schools. The floral displays will complement a rich array of embroidered vestments and stoles used throughout the church year.

Frome Art for Wellbeing art exhibition – daily from Friday 7 July, 11am–4pm

Frome Consort concert – Saturday 8 July: 7pm–9pm

Jon Pickard harp guitar concerts – Sunday 9 July: 5.30pm & 7.30pm

‘Oranges & lemons – Tales from the belfries’, talk by Chris Gilburt: Tuesday 11 July: 4pm–5pm

Festival Choral Evensong – Thursday 13 July: 6pm–7pm.

London Gala Orchestra – Saturday 15 July: 7.30pm–9.30pm

‘In joy and in sorrow’, talk by Revd Colin Alsbury: Sunday 16 July: 4pm

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23/05/2023

Great to be working with Rook Lane Arts Trust delivering RING OUT for Frome Festival and thank you festival for featuring our project so prominently with a whole page in the brochure and bells on the cover.

Ring out the bells at the Frome Festival

Ring Out, a bell-founding and ringing celebration project, is to take place during the Frome Festival, thanks to Heritage Fund grant.

Ring Out is a new project by Rook Lane Arts Trust and Artmusic and is a celebration of bell founding and bell ringing, and has been awarded a grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Funding has also been received from the Frome Society for Local Study and Frome Town Council mayor’s fund.

Ring Out will form part of this year’s Frome Festival with 13 events taking place across the 10 days.

There will be walks, talks, concerts and tours. Listen out for the Frome Carillon ringing the hours from above the market square; visit a local bell tower or a bell engineering works, and try your hand at hand-bell ringing or even ring a tower bell.

For details of events visit: www.fromefestival .co.uk

Pictured: Helen Ottaway artistic director Artmusic, Martin Bax Chair Rook Lane Arts Trust, Mathew Higby director Mathew Higby and Company (bell founders). Photo by David Chedgy.

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