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Diary 2011
3 January
Meeting - Science Communicator Mark Brake
Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf
www.markbrake.com
12 January
Pencoed Choral Society Rehearsal
Salem Chapel, Coychurch Road, Pencoed, CF35 5LY
www.pencoedanddistrictchoralsociety.co.uk
15 January
Welsh Bagpiping Workshop
with Bagau Pibau Morgannwg
Canolfan a Menter Gymraeg, Merthyr Tydfil
www.welshbagpipes.co.uk
20 to 24 January
Visit to Tallinn, Estonia
www.tourism.tallinn.ee
27 January
Meeting - Eventz
Crawford Street, Newport
www.ev-entz.co.uk
28 January
Making Music - Music & Well Being Working Group Meeting
2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
2 February
Meeting - Symphony of Sound & Song
Mayor's Parlour, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf
www.rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk
3 February
Voluntary Arts Network Wales Meeting
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
www.vaw.org.uk
5 February
Ty Cerdd Executive Committee Meeting
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
www.tycerdd.org
5 February
Wales Brass Band Forum Meeting
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
12 February
Welsh Bagpiping Workshop
with Bagau Pibau Morgannwg
Canolfan a Menter Gymraeg, Merthyr Tydfil
www.welshbagpipes.co.uk
12 February
Peter Karrie: A Phantom Returns
Blackwood Little Theatre, Blackwood, Newport
www.peterkarrie.com
The legendary phantom launches his Canadian tour, in aid of Bobath Cymru and CanChild, at Blackwood Little Theatre. Further details available at www.peterkarrie.com
14 February
Making Music Wales Meeting
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
www.makingmusicwales.org.uk
18 to 24 February
Meetings - Mediterranean International Festival of Arts
Crete, Greece
www.militfest.com/crete_2011
25 February
Making Music Development Team Meeting
Making Music Offices, 2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
March 1
St David's Day Concert
Blaengwawr Comprehensive School, Aberdare
Rhondda Cynon Taf
3 March
St David's Day Concert
Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Llyn Y Forwyn
Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf
4 March
Meeting - Making Music Wales
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
www.makingmusicwales.org.uk
10 March
Making Music - Music & Well Being Working Group Meeting
2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
11 to 14 March
Visit to Tallinn, Estonia
www.tourism.tallinn.ee
12 March
Eisteddfod Yr Urdd - Cylch
Theatr Parc a Dar, Treorci
19 March
Welsh Regional Brass Band Championships
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
www.welshbrass.org.uk
28 to 31 March
Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo Music Meetings
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
www.nstattoo.ca
Music meetings for the 2011 Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo
30 March
Semi Final - Treorchy Male Choir Young Musician of the Year
Tonypandy Community School
www.treorchymalechoir.org/home/junior.htm
1 April
Workshop - Kings-Edgehill School
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
www.kes.ns.ca
2 April
Dinner - Band of the Royal Welsh
Newport, South Wales
www.royalwelshband.com
5 April
Rehearsal - Abergavenny Borough Band
Abergavenny, South Wales
www.abergavennyboroughband.org.uk
6 April
Final - Treorchy Male Choir Young Musician of the Year
Treorchy Comprehensive School
www.treorchymalechoir.org/home/junior.htm
15 April
Meeting - The Bards of Wales
with Concert Masters International, Hungary
Blaenllechau, Rhondda Cynon Taf
www.cmi.hu
17 April
Rehearsal - City of Cardiff Band
Tongwynlais, Cardiff, South Wales
www.cardiffbrass.com
18 April
Making Music Volunteer Management Training Day
The Greenhouse, Bristol
www.farmgarden.org.uk
4 May
Ty Cerdd - Specialist Committee Meeting
Brynafon Hotel, Rhayader
South Street, Rhayader, Powys, LD6 5BL
www.brynafon.co.uk
6 May
BBC Music Nation Meeting
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
The Castle Grounds, North Road, Cardiff, CF10 3ER
www.makingmusic.org.uk/our-work
7 May
SEWBBA Championships
Leisure Centre, Ebbw Vale
13 May
Meeting - Peter Bassano
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire
13 May
Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo
Windsor Castle, Windsor
www.windsortattoo.com
14 May
Welsh Bagpiping Workshop
Canolfan a Menter Gymraeg Merthyr, Merthyr Tydfil
1:00–3:00pm
Workshop in preparation for the Global Village event at Cyfartha Castle on 22nd May
16 May
Mayoral Installation
with Abergavenny Band
Borough Theatre, Abergavenny
19 May
Kalev Gymnastics Centenary Celebrations
Tallinn, Estonia
21 / 22 May
Sweden International Tattoo
Malmo Arena, Malmo, Sweden
www.swedeninternationaltattoo.se
22 May
Welsh Bagpiping Performance
Cyfartha Castle, Merthyr Tydfil
www.welshbagpipes.co.uk
23 May
Making Music - Music & Well Being Working Group Meeting
2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
24 May
Making Music National Development Team Meeting
2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
28 May
Meeting - City of Newport Pipes & Drums
Shaftesbury Community Centre
Evans Street, Newport, NP20 5LD
www.newportpipesanddrums.co.uk
29 May
Vintage Steam Rally
with Abergavenny Band
Bailey Park, Abergavenny
30 May
Vintage Steam Rally
with Abergavenny Band
Bailey Park, Abergavenny
2 June
St Mary's Arts Festival, Abergavenny
with Abergavenny Borough Band
St Mary's Church, Abergavenny
www.stmarys-priory.org
6 June
ACE Fundraising Masterclass - Michael Kaiser
Midland Arts Centre
Cannon Hill Park
2 Russell Road, Birmingham, B12 9QH
www.macarts.co.uk
6 June
Healthy Sounds Performance
Ystradfechan Hospital, Treorchy
10 June
Meeting - Superact: The Bandstand Marathon
Colston Hall, Bristol
13 Colston Street, Harbourside, BS1 5AR
www.bandstandmarathon.org.uk
11 June
Ty Cerdd Executive Committee Meeting
www.tycerdd.org
11 June
Richard Williams Musical Theatre Prize Gala Concert
Park & Dare Theatre, Treorchy
www.richardwilliamssingers.com
12 June
Concert - Abergavenny Borough Band
Bedwellty Park, Tredegar
15 June
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Preview
RWCMD, North Road, Cardiff
Preview of the exciting new RWCMD facilities, including the Richard Burton Theatre, Linbury Gallery and Dora Stoutzker Hall, plus an overview of the new overall artistic strategy
22-25 June
Visit of the Jugendblasorchester Ravensburg
Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales
1 to 8 July
Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo
Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
www.nstattoo.ca
2 & 3 July
Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo Open Music Workshops
with Howard Cable
Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Open brass and concert band workshops with renowned Canadian composer Howard Cable
Further information can be found at www.nstattoo.ca
13 July
BBC Music Nation Meeting
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
The Castle Grounds, North Road, Cardiff, CF10 3ER
www.makingmusic.org.uk/our-work
10 to 16 July
World Gymaestrada
Lausanne, Switzerland
www.wg-2011.com
The 14th world gymnaestrada in Lausanne, Switzerland
21 July
Theatre Visit
Savoy Theatre, The Strand, London, WC2R 0ET
with Porth County Community School
22 July
Meeting - The Bards of Wales
Rhondda Life Centre, Ferndale
www.rhonddalife.com
28 July
Making Music National Development Managers Meeting
Phoenix Arts Centre
Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS
www.makingmusic.org.uk
29 July
Meeting - Making Music Regional Leaders
Arts Council England, West Midlands Offices
82 Granville Street, Birmingham, B1 2LH
www.makingmusic.org.uk
30 / 31 July
National Eisteddfod of Wales
Wrexham, North Wales
www.eisteddfod.org.uk
31 July to 5 August
Production Meetings - Mediterranean International Festival of Arts
Aldemar Royal Mare Resort, Crete
www.militfest.com/crete_2011
5 / 6 August
Leigo Jarvemuusika
Leigo, Estonia
www.leigo.ee
5 to 14 August
Festival Interceltique L'Orient
Brittany, France
www.festival-interceltique.com
9 August
Making Music - Music and Wellbeing Working Group Meeting
Making Music Offices, 2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
11 August
Private Event
Oxton, Scottish Borders, Scotland
11 August
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Edinburgh Castle, Castlehill, Edinburgh, EH1 2NG
www.edintattoo.co.uk
14 August
Meeting - Symphonic Brass Wales
Carmarthen, West Wales
www.symphonicbrasswales.weebly.com
15 August
Meeting - Arts Council of Wales
Wales Millennium Centre
www.makingmusicwales.org.uk
16 August
Meeting - BFBB Away Day
Unit 12, Maple Estate, Stocks Lane,
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 2BL
www.bfbb.co.uk
17 August
Meeting - BASBWE
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
www.basbwe.org
18 August
Meeting - The Bards of Wales
Rhondda Life Centre, Ferndale
www.rhonddalife.com
30 August
Making Music Development Team Meeting
Making Music Offices, 2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
3 September
Concert - Treherbert & District Band
Glynneath Town Hall
Heathfield Avenue, Glynneath, Neath, SA11 5AB
www.treherbertband.weebly.com
6 September
Meeting - The Bards of Wales
Rhondda Life Centre, Ferndale
www.rhonddalife.com
7 September
Making Music - Music and Wellbeing Working Group Meeting
Making Music Offices, 2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
9 September
Viewing - The Prestonpans Tapestry
St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington
www.prestonpanstapestry.org
10 & 11 September
Making Music National Conference 2011: Music and Wellbeing
Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow
www.makingmusic.org.uk/events/conference
16 September
BBC Music Nation Meeting
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
The Castle Grounds, North Road, Cardiff, CF10 3ER
www.makingmusic.org.uk/our-work
17 September
South Wales Miner's Eisteddfod Entertainment Contest
Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
19 September
Meeting - Making Music Wales
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
www.makingmusicwales.org.uk
22 September
Rehearsal - Peter Karrie
with Abergavenny Borough Band
www.peterkarrie.com
25 September to 5 October
Mediterranean International Festival of Arts
Crete, Greece
www.festarts.org
25 September
Bandstand Marathon
Making Music, in association with Superact!
Nationwide celebration of voluntary music, in association with Superact!
www.bandstandmarathon.org.uk
30 September to 2 October
123sing!
Making Music, in association with Classic FM
www.makingmusic.org.uk
A nationwide celebration of singing with Making Music, in association with Classic FM
For further details visit www.123sing.classicfm.com
30 September
Official Opening - Morlais Hall
Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf
www.cor-meibion-morlais.org.uk
2 October
123sing Cymru!
Oval Basin / Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
www.makingmusicwales.org.uk
Nationwide celebration of singing in Wales at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff with Making Music Wales, in association with Ty Cerdd
8 October
Ty Cerdd Executive Committee Meeting
www.tycerdd.org
8 October
WWBBA Championships
Memorial Hall, Burry Port
www.burryporttownband.co.uk
11 October
Conference - WCVA
Cardiff City Stadium
www.wcva.org.uk
14 October
Meeting - Making Music
2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
15 October
Concert - Brass Band Luxembourg
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
16 October
Meetings - Luxembourg International Tattoo
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
www.militarytattoo.lu
19 October
Cardiff Live Music Club
Fairwater Conservative Club, Ely Road, Cardiff, CF5 2BY
www.cardiffoks.org
20 October
Meeting - Welsh Brass Band Forum
Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AL
www.makingmusicwales.org.uk
21 October
Meeting - Bandstand Marathon 2012
Watershed, 1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX
www.bandstandmarathon.org.uk
22 October
Guest Speaker - SBBA AGM & Conference
Livingstone, Scotland
www.sbba.org.uk
28/29 October
Hamburg Polizei Show
Hamburg Sporthalle
Krochmannstraße 55, 22297 Hamburg, Germany
www.polizeishow.de
The 42nd Hamburg Polizei Show with the Hamburg Police Force and guests
3 November
Meeting - Making Music National Volunteering Programme
The Watershed, Bristol
www.makingmusic.org.uk
10 November
DCLG Volunteering Fair
The Atrium, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London
www.communities.gov.uk
11 November
Festival of Remembrance
Leisure Centre, Ebbw Vale
www.abergavennyboroughband.org.uk
11 to 13 November
Jahreskonzert Kreisverbandsjugendblasorchester Ravensburg
Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
www.blasmusik-rv.de
13 November, 10:30
Service of Remembrance & Concert
Gwynfi Junior School, Western Terrace, Blaengwynfi
Annual Service of Remembrance and Concert with Treherbert & District Band
13 November, 10:30
March & Service of Remembrance
Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf
March and Service of Remembrance with Cwmaman Institute Band
13 November, 14:30
March & Service of Remembrance
Guidhall Square, Carmarthen
St Mary's Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1TN
March and Service of Remembrance with Symphonic Brass Wales
13 November, 17:00
Jahreskonzert Kreisverbandsjugendblasorchester Ravensburg
Kultur und Kongresszentrum, Weingarten, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
www.blasmusik-rv.de
17 November
ACW Arts Marketing Symposium
Theatr Clwyd Cymru, Mold, Flintshire, CH7 1YA
www.clwyd-theatr-cymru.co.uk
19 November
SEWBBA Championships
Workmens Hall, Blaenavon
21-24 November
Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo Production Meetings
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
www.nstattoo.ca
24 November
Charity Christmas Concert
St Matthew's Church, Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Charity concert in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support with Treherbert & District Band
29 November
Private Function
Neath Port Talbot
1 December
Christmas Concert
with Treherbert & District Band
Pontyclun
3 December
Christmas Concert
with Markham Band
Miner's Institute, Blackwood
4 December
Christmas Carols
Dare Valley Country Park
www.darevalleycountrypark.co.uk
4 December
Christmas Cymanfa
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
www.wmc.org.uk
6 December - 13:30
Christmas Concert
Ysgol Yr Eos, Bishop St, Penygraig, Tonypandy CF40 1PQ
7 December - 13:30
Christmas Concert
Ysgol Yr Eos, Bishop St, Penygraig, Tonypandy CF40 1PQ
9 December
Meeting - Ty Cerdd
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
www.tycerdd.sequence.co.uk
9 December
Christmas Service
Roath Park, Cardiff
10 December
The Wonder of Christmas
with the Richard Williams Singers & Gentlemen Songsters and Treherbert & District Band
Tonyrefail Leisure Centre, Rhondda Cynon Taf
11 December
Christmas Carols
Dare Valley Country Park
www.darevalleycountrypark.co.uk
12 December
Making Music Development Team Meeting
Making Music Offices, 2-4 Great Eastern Street, London
www.makingmusic.org.uk
15 December
Christmas Carol Service
with Porth County Community School and Treherbert & District Band
St John's Church, Cymmer, Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf
16-19 December
Christmas Tour - Porth County Community School
Disneyland Paris, Paris, France
www.disneylandparis.co.uk
17 December
Christmas Concert
Borough Theatre, Abergavenny
18 December
Christmas Carols
Dare Valley Country Park
www.darevalleycountrypark.co.uk
20 December
Meeting - The Bards of Wales
Rhondda Life Centre, Ferndale
www.rhonddalife.com
22 December
Meeting - A Musical for the Masses
Cottrell Park Golf Club, St. Nicholas, Cardiff CF5 6SJ
www.cottrell-park.co.uk
24 December
Christmas Carolling
The Lion, Treorchy
www.treherbertband.weebly.com
24 December
Christmas Carols
Dare Valley Country Park
www.darevalleycountrypark.co.uk
25 December
Christmas Service
Tabor Chapel, Abergwynfi
26 December
Christmas Carolling
Croesyceiliog, Carmarthen
Christmas carolling with Symphonic Brass Wales, in aid of Ty Cymorth Children's Hospice