What’s happening in Monmouth: Monmouth Festival

 

Monmouth Festival is a series of events and entertainments taking place in a beautiful South Wales town in the Wye valley, organized by the people of Monmouth, for the people of Monmouth and using local Monmouth talent as much as possible.

The festival offers a diverse range of musical genres ranging from folk, and ska, through jazz and blues, to rock and thrash metal, and classical music, with comedy and street entertainment thrown in for good measure. All the concerts are free, mostly taking place in a news site at Blestium Street Car Park with the indoor venue this year being the function room at The Three Horseshoes in Drybridge Street.

Line-up details:
Main Stage
Friday 25th July - Pronghorn, Ricky Cool and the Hoola Boola Boys
Saturday 26th July - Natty Wailer and the Reggae Vibes, One Heart Crew
Carnival Sunday 27th July - Monmouth Band, Malarchy, Sing-a-Long Rocky Horror
Monday 28th July - Killing for Company, Battle of the Bands winners, Forgotten Sleep
Tuesday 29th July - The Mighty Pledge, Ockhams Raiser
Wednesday 30th July - Cavern Beatles, The Maybes?
Thursday 31st July - Lovesick Cowboys, Cakehole Presley
Friday 1st August - Dino Baptiste, The Wreckage
Festival finale Saturday 2nd August - The Animals, Dan Dunne and the Reels
To end it all for another year there will be fireworks to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

During the festival the Vine Tree plays host to Jazz Ladies and Swing Gitanes, Throwing Paper Aeroplanes, Jeorje, John and Olly, John Shaw and Alan Kirkpatrick, Louise Richardson, John Crampton, Patchy, Mark Ruebery, and Steven Light.

Music in a classical vein is provided by Naiades Ensemble - a flute, harp and viola trio - in St. Mary's Church, along with a Welsh Male Voice Choir, Welsh-Argentine Guitar Duo, and Monmouth's own Jo Collins.

The Festival continues to grow every year now that the organisers have taken on other events too - like the Kymin Dash and the town Carnival and Fun Day which takes place on the Sunday.