What's On?

Do come along to our Spring Concert where we will have some fantastic music to share with you, including music from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, famous Maori hymn Hine e Hine, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Beatles: Echoes of an Era and several new pieces being performed by the band for the very first time.  More information is added regularly on our website & social media pages. We hope to see many of you there - tickets (Adults £10 [6 + Adults £9 each] Accompanied U16's free) are available from The Link, Tadley, The Baobab Mortimer or TicketSource: www.ticketsource.co.uk/south-berks-concert-band

HJF is 28th March at 8pm in the British Legion, Church Way, Hungerford. Entrance £3 to cover costs

HJF is an open forum of friendly musos. You are very welcome to come along and join in ,  If you don’t play an instrument or sing you are welcome to come along and enjoy the music and atmosphere.

There is also an excellent bar which serves beers etc plus tea and coffee.

Why not request a particular tune, may be one you have been practicing. We will be pleased to fit you in. Just talk to one of the team or whoever has the CLIPBOARD.

Hungerford Jazz Forum now offers bands and performers a 30 minute slot around 9pm.To book a slot  email us on grw2013-ibook@yahoo.co.uk. More info here (thanks to Newbury Weekly News).

The HJF Guest Slot this month is available

If you know someone who would like to receive our occasional newsletter please direct them to this sign up form CLICK HERE

We hope to see you there.

Best Wishes From

George and the team

New Era Players present their latest production of Here Comes a Chopper by Eugène Ionesco. This play, written in 1970, is billed as a comedy about a plague that sweeps through a town, forcing a lockdown situation. Sound familiar? Fifty years before it was written, the Spanish flu had ravished Europe, and fifty years after, we endured Covid; Ionesco is both reflective and prophetic, commenting on the human condition and showing us that nothing much changes and we are perhaps doomed to keep repeating ourselves. The action of the play portrays both anarchic humour and pathos, with fast-paced scenes darting around the town and giving an insight into the reactions of the townsfolk to their predicament. Featuring an ensemble cast, there is more than a hint of Monty Python in the absurdist humour and fantastical situations, making for a very entertaining watch.

Come and join us to see this classic drama from 13th to 15th and 18th to 22nd March 2025 at New Era Theatre, Andover Road, Wash Common, Newbury RG14 6NU. Tickets are £15 each and available online from ticketsource.co.uk/new-era-players. All other enquiries to  boxoffice@neweraplayers.org or phone 07919 916009.

New Era Players, as part of the Art in the Foyer series, present works by local artist Jonathan Freestone. The Horizons collection is an exhibition of landscape paintings open to the public on Friday 21st February between 7 and 9pm.

Please also come and meet the artist on his open mornings at the theatre on Saturday March 1st and 22nd between 10.30 and 12 noon. The exhibition will also be on display during the New Era Players March production on the evenings of 13th-15th and 18th-22nd March.

Find us at New Era Theatre, St George's Centre, Andover Road, Wash Common, Newbury, RG14 6NU. For further information, see Instagram jonathanfreestoneartist, visit jonathanfreestoneartist.com, or email the artist directly on jonathanfreestoneartist@gmail.com.