Diamond Jubilee Festival, Saturday Sunday and Monday

Have you picked up your Souvenir Programme?

There are a few changes to some of the artists on pages 10 and 11
the new lineup is here:

Saturday 2^ndJune 

12.00 – 13.00              DJQ

13.00 – 13.40              Bath Street Band 

13.40 – 14.00              Chloe and Barry Hunt 

14.00 – 14.20              Caldmore Community Junior School 

14.20 – 14.40              Dinky 

14.40 – 14.45              Joseph Leckie 

14.55 – 15.15              Masterdance 

15.15 -  15.35              Nat and Soph 

15.35 -  15.50              Q 

15.50 -  16.05              Natasha Patel 

16.05 -  16.30              Chuck Micaleff 

16.30 -  17.00              Mojo Hooker 

17.00 -  17.20              Snooty Bobs 

17.20 -  19.00              Khaliq

 

Sunday 3^rdJune 

12.00 – 13.00              DJQ 

13.00 -  13.20              Red Venice 

13.20 – 13.40              Natalie Gazey 

13.40 – 14.00              Masterdance 

14.00 – 14.20              Adam Cuckrowski 

14.20 – 14.35              Jaimal Mystry 

14.35 – 14.55              Mad and Josh 

14.55 -  15.15              Jorja Smith 

15.15 – 15.45              Josmya 

15.45 – 16.00              Q 

16.00 -  16.30              Stems 

16.30 -   17.00             Nat and Soph 

17.00 – 19.00              100 Voices

 

Monday 4^th June 

13.00 – 14.00              DJQ 

14.00 – 14.30              Bayard’s Band 

14.00 – 14.30              Carnival procession arrives 

14.30 – 15.00              Speeches and national anthem with Josmya and Q 

15.00 – 15.10              Shree K. Mandir 

15.10 – 15.20              Dhamak Punjaban Dee 

15.20 – 15.40              Masterdance 

15.40 -  16.00              Natasha Patel 

16.00 –  16.30              Aziz 

16.30 –  17.00              Barba Hussein and Meena 

17.00 -  18 00              Tariq Khan 

18.00 – 19.00               New Wave 

Don’t forget you can follow us on Twitter #CVF and you can contact us @CaldmoreVillageFest

We’d love to hear from you……..

 

See you in Walsall town centre 12-2pm TODAY

Join the Caldmore Diamond Jubilee Festival team in Walsall Town Centre TODAY, for live music, carnival workshops and information about the upcoming The Walsall Mela, three day Jubilee Festival and how to take part in the Jubilee Parade on the 4th June from Walsall Town Centre.

Be there

One Hundred Voices

28 – 30 May 2011 @ Caldmore Village Festival

Caldmore is an area of Walsall with its own unique heritage. Over the May bank holiday weekend Caldmore Village Festival will be celebrating the multi-cultural diversity of Caldmore and its people using song and dance. Last year’s event was a big success and 2011 will be even bigger and better!

This year we are creating a combined performance of more than a hundred voices drawing on people from local choirs. If you are members of a choir and would like to get involved then we would like to hear from you. The organisers will be looking to build a performance around gospel music, you would need to have basic knowledge of performance and be available to rehearse during evenings leading up to the festival. The performance will be staged early evening on Sunday 29^th May.

To register interest or to get further information please contact Eric telephone 07903 403057 or email ericfrankham@hotmail.co.uk.

 

Festival Launch Party – what a great night!

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What an absolutely cracking launch to this year’s Caldmore Village Festival. The Bath Street Centre hosted our launch party to a ram-packed sell out crowd – next year we may have to sell ‘standing only’ tickets!!!

The evening kicked off with the traditional ‘loading of the plates’ buffest style followed by a fantastic performance by Caldmores own Bath Street Band. The rest of the evening continued onwards and upwards with further outstanding musical performances by Malik Raof and Malik Razak, Dean Janjua, and Snooty Bobs. With dancing from S and J Stars Dance school and stand up from Dave Shakespeare plus more ‘loading of the plates’ the evening proved to be a feast for the senses.

What a fantastic atmosphere – and a fantastic start to the year!

If you like what you see and would like to find out more or get involved in this years festival let us know by responding to this post and we will get back to you. Otherwise just subscribe to the blog for regular updates. Or why don’t you come along to the Caldmore Community Clean Up on Saturday 12^th February for more information… Click Here!  (you get a scrummy lunch on the house)

Grub, Entertainment, Good company…interested?

Bellringing at festival!!!

Saturday 29th May – 9:30-11am -

St Matthew’s has a 12 bell quarter peel to be rung by visitors from York Minster. They will be starting from 9.30 am Sat morning and ringing to about 11 am.

Bank Holiday Monday -

A band from Alrewas will be ringing an 8 bell quarter peel at St Matthew’s on Bank holiday Monday.

Tower Captain, John Edlin says:
Bellringing is a great English tradition and St Matthew’s is looking to recruit new ringers. Men and women are equally suitable. It’s an absorbing hobby which brings people together and automatically leads to making friends across the country, and indeed, the world. Anyone interested should contact the Tower Captain, John Edlin. 01922 626520.

Details of St Matthew’s Church can be found on the website. www.stmatthewswalsall.co.uk. A quick look at the calendar will illustrate how many community events take place in and around St Matthew’s. http://www.localendar.com/public/ColinGibson.

CABARET – at The Wheatsheaf

Why not visit The Wheatsheaf pub for an afternoon of MUSIC, CABARET and COMEDY!!! As part of the Caldmore Village Festival weekend.

Monday 31st May 2010, 2pm until late.

The Wheatsheaf, 4 Birmingham Road, Walsall, WS1 2NA – for more information ring 01922 628992

Caldmore Shines – REHEARSAL DATES!

Rehearsals for Caldmore Shines Choir will be held on:

• Friday March 12th
• Friday March 26th
• Friday April 9th
• Friday April 23rd
• Friday May 4th
• Friday May 21st

All rehearsals will take place between 7:30pm-9pm at the Vera Fenn Building – the blue pyramid at Blue Coat C of E Comprehensive School (click here for map).

We welcome singers from every age, irrespective of ability, race, creed or religion.

Come and take part, bring your friends and family!  It will not be anything too difficult, just a fun evening together.

Let’s put Caldmore on the musical map!

For more information please contact Darryll Prew on 07792 473916 or email dsjprew@yahoo.com

A Taste of Caldmore returns in March!

The Balti Site restaurant, venue for the second ‘A Taste of Caldmore’ music and food event, has just reopened next door to its last place of trading on Caldmore Road. It is now called Balti Spice and is open from 5.30pm 6 days a week ,closed mondays(not bank holidays!

The Festival Events Committee is reorganising the second ‘A Taste of Caldmore’ event with a jazz ensemble playing sometime in March. This top notch band, from the organiser of the Upton-on-Severn Jazz Festival, will be playing in our newest local restaurant - back from the flood!

This is a larger venue and as the last ‘A Taste of Caldmore’ event was fully booked, yet postponed, we are expecting to sell this one out very quickly too.

Dates to be confirmed – Watch This Space!

A Taste of Caldmore

The next ’Taste’ event will be on the 12th January 2010.  Why not welcome in the new year at Balti Site, come and experience an evening of fine Bangladeshi and Indian food with music provided by Caldmore’s very own jazz drummer ‘Sir Alan Buckley’ and the fantastic Carl Sinclair resident player at Jools Holland’s Jam Club in Birmingham (http://www.myspace.com/carlsinclair).  All of this for only £9.95 per head – book in ADVANCE to avoid dissapointment!

For bookings…Mr Shanaj Ali, 116 Caldmore Road,Walsall ,WS13RF. Tel: 01922 722791

Open from 5.30 pm till late, 6 days a week -closed Mondays