Skirt Patrol Live at The King Billy Rock Bar

Workshops at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery for those who might like to come along and join in with others in making their poppies. Just bring your needles/crochet hook Saturday 3 February 10am – 12.30pm Wednesday 28 February 4 – 6.30pm Saturday 9 March 10am – 12.30pm Saturday 13 April 10am – 12.30pm FREE We are looking for volunteers to help create a commemorative poppy display ahead of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day on 6 June 2024 Our aim is to create one poppy for each of the casualties from The Northamptonshire Yeomanry, The Northamptonshire Regiment, those who served on or flew from Northamptonshire airfields and those from Northamptonshire who served in other armed forces. We invite keen knitters and crocheters to support this project, whether local residents, community groups, schools, youth groups or knitting clubs, in helping make around 1000 poppies. The poppies will be used to create the display at Abington Park Museum a memorial to all those who gave their lives during the Normandy Landings. You can join in by stitching a poppy and sending it to the Northampton Museum & Art Gallery, Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1DP by 1 May 2024 at the latest. The Museum...

Fisherman’s Friends have nine albums to their name, two feature films, a stage musical, a book, a TV documentary, they’ve played for royalty and to tens of thousands of fans in sell-out tours year in year out… No, it’s not The Beatles,  Take That or One Direction – it’s The Fisherman’s Friends! A decade ago, The Fisherman’s Friends signed a million-pound record deal that saw their album Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends go Gold as they became the first ever traditional folk act to land a UK top ten album. And thanks to the small film with a big heart that shares their name, the story of the original Cornish ‘buoy band’ is known around the world. Bound by shared experience, for more than 30 years they have gathered on the Platt on the harbour in their native Port Isaac to sing the songs of the sea, songs that in some cases have been handed down for hundreds of years, songs that connect them to generations of Cornish fishermen that have come before them. The film’s sequel Fisherman’s Friends 2 was released last year.The story follows the group from the highs of starring on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, through the lows of struggling to make a follow-up album. Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical broke...

Everyone’s favourite 1930’s throwback greetings and compliments aficionado Troy Hawke returns to theatres nationwide with his brand new show. A journey which started with a non-consensual customer service shift outside TK MAXX in Macclesfield has lead him around the world and directly into the orbit of the world’s biggest sporting figures. He’s confused Premiership footballers, been threatened by heavyweight boxers and improved the vocabulary of Formula 1 legends. In this show Troy examines his unlikely genesis and explores exactly why a well-dressed man simply being nice to people has caused such a kerfuffle ‘…genius character comedy’ (The Wee Review) SELL OUT UK TOUR 2022/23 WINNER Fringe Encore Series 2022 BEST SHOW WINNER Leicester Comedy Festival 2022 BEST SHOW TOTAL SELL OUT RUN Edinburgh Festival 2022 Top 40 best reviewed shows Edinburgh Festival 2022

The Reformers performing at The Wig and Pen

Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust presents an opportunity to share inspiration and aspiration with three generations of wind orchestras – County Junior Wind Orchestra, County Training Wind Orchestra and County Youth Concert Band. Other NMPAT shows this season include: NMPAT: Orchestra Spectacular | NMPAT: Big Sing

Roy and The Saracens