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Review: The Snow Queen at Bristol Old Vic
A fight between good and evil with an icy darkness – Milo Davison (10) reports from Bristol Old Vic's Christmas production. The Snow Queen at Bristol Old Vic made a unexpected start. The two main...
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Review: local author's vivid tale of a woman's unequal struggle for...
Do not go down to your local bookshop to buy The Planter's Daughter by Jo Carroll - known locally as a writer through her widely-read columns for Marlborough.News. This is her first novel and it is...
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Review: Remember, remember? Fame is a trip down memory lane for parents
Remember the kids from Fame? I do. I was 10 when the TV show began airing on BBC in 1982 – a little too young to fully appreciate some of the topics being explored, but you couldn’t move for the Irene...
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REVIEW Psychological thriller by local author: Jar's girlfriend killed...
Find Me - before they do by J.S. Monroe (published 2017 by Head of Zeus Ltd) J.S. Monroe's Find Me is a tremendous read. The story unfolds at a great pace and the narrative structure is used with...
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A Very Naughty Polar Bear
Review of The Bear, Bristol Old Vic, Saturday 18 February 2107 A polar bear squeezes through a child's window and...is very naughty. Tales of polar bears could go cuddly or monstrous. Recently, for...
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REVIEW: St Peter's fifth Brilliant Young Pianists series brings Adrian...
The third recital in this series at St Peter's Church in Marlborough was given (February 26) by the young British pianist, Adrian Oldland. Adrian began his musical studies at the age of seven when he...
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REVIEW: Junkyard is the story of all our playgrounds
Junkyard reminds us that we need to fight for places to play. Sometime in the mid-eighties (I’m guessing the spring or summer of 1985) my parents took me to Bowood House, near Calne, where I spent an...
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REVIEW: Wiltshire's amateur archaeologists - finding what lies beneath our feet
50 Finds from Wiltshire - Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by Richard Henry (Amberley - 2017) This book will give pleasure - and a good deal of hope - to all those who imagine turning up...
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St Peter's Church recitals: fifth series welcomes a truly brilliant young duo
On a chilly Sunday evening, Yume Fujise (violin) and Maria Tarasewicz (piano) joined the ranks of the brilliant young musicians who have played in Saint Peter’s church (April 30). Yume Fujise is a...
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St Peter's Church recitals: pianist Ben Schoeman excels with challenging...
In the latest of this popular series of Brilliant Young Musician recitals at St Peter's Church, we welcomed back the South African pianist, Ben Schoeman (June 24.) He played here in 2014 and earlier...
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REVIEW: After ‘Summertime’ Vanessa Lafaye's new novel tells a story from the...
At First Light by Vanessa Lafaye (Published June 2017 by Orion)If you like a really good story really well told, this is a book for you. Vanessa Lafaye's second novel - At First Light - tells a...
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Takes Steps to see this Spanish Court-themed show
Marlborough.news was one of the first in the town to catch the latest Gifford Circus show, Any Port in a Storm. An exuberant, joyous affair, the circus skills are world class, the live band the...
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Ben Cipolla: Busking the High Street to the Royal Albert Hall
Jazz megastar, Clare Teal, is a great discoverer of new talent. After all, she discovered Jamie Cullum. Just five years ago, she was walking down Marlborough High Street on the way to her gig in the...
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Juliet Wood: ‘Music Beaches Family’ at The White Horse Bookshop’s gallery -...
Since the Impressionists left their studios to draw and paint outside, many artists have been preoccupied with the attempt to depict what’s in front of us – what we deem as ‘familiar’ – in a fresh way....
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REVIEW: Kontakt and clay - Julia Schuster exhibition at the Mount House...
Although Julia Schuster's chief medium is clay – she has recently been awarded the role of 'Future Light in Ceramics Ambassador' by an international panel of judges - she is equally at home using...
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St Peter's Church recitals: two old friends of the Marlborough series return...
The first recital in the new series of Brilliant Young International Musicians in Saint Peter’s Church (October 29) saw a welcome return of two old friends: John Paul Ekins, (piano) and Judith Choi...
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Review: Victoria Jinivizian's 'Interior Lives' - rooms we can view at our...
This month’s exhibition at the White Horse Gallery presents a series of paintings and drawings of rooms by Victoria Jinivizian. Victoria was trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, exhibits regularly...
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Review: 'Extraordinary Sketchbooks' exhibition at the Mount House Gallery
The epithet in the title - ‘extraordinary’ - suggests something significantly beyond what one might expect to find in an artist’s sketchbook. That sketchbooks are wonderful things is beyond serious...
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REVIEW: St Peter's Church recitals - pianist Jessica Zhu mixes modern...
This was a very welcome return visit from Jessica Zhu, who had played for a Marlborough audience in the 2013 series of recitals by Brilliant Young International Musicians at Saint Peter’s Church.
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Review: Brilliant Young Musicians recital brings ‘fireworks’ to St Peter's...
The latest concert in this ever-popular series was an astonishing performance of music for violin and piano given by two young musicians Brieuc Vourch (violin) and Gamal Khamis (piano).
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Marlborough Open Studios preview show at the Mount House Gallery
The MOS preview show is a bit like a large firework – bright, sparkling, full of delight … but over in a flash! It runs for only four days from 7th– 10thJune. Nonetheless, it is one of the important...
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Mark Wickham paintings and Louise Wickham ceramics at the White Horse Gallery
I think it’s true to say that many, if not most people, would deem a painter of pictures to be a good artist by her or his ability to render things ‘realistically’. A portrait of “Uncle Fred” should...
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Brilliant Young International Musicians in Saint Peter’s church, Marlborough...
The latest concert in the St Peter’s series was unusual in that it featured voice and piano for the first time. The concert was a selection of Schubert songs, hence a ‘Schubertiade,’ sung by the...
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'The Hidden Bones', launch of a new crime novel by Nicola Ford
Launched in Marlborough on Thursday evening (14 June) at The White Horse Bookshop, Dr Nick Snashall, National Trust Archaelogist for the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site, has just published...
View Article“Full Circle Half Knowledge” - review of Julia Schuster's Exhibition at the...
This exhibition marks the end of Julia Schuster’s year as artist-in-residence at Marlborough College. Expect a challenging show that seeks a willingness from visitors to engage with the works on...
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Marlborough Open Studios 2018 begins next weekend
Fifty four exhibiting artists from Calne in the west to Hungerford in the east are inviting visitors to their studios, workshops, or pop-up galleries for the first four full weekends in July. Entrance...
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Marlborough author's personal story lifts the lid on the daring and...
He won the Military Cross and three Croix de Guerre operating in occupied France, Algiers and Corsica as an SOE agent in the fight against Hitler. But Jacque de Guelis died in a car crash three weeks...
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Marlborough Academy of Dance and Drama students give sell-out performance at...
One hundred and ninety two members of the Marlborough Academy of Dance and Drama (MAD) aged 4 to 18 delighted a packed audience at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon on Saturday July 14.
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Marlborough Is rising: Friday's opening fills the town with music
From Avebury's George Wilding kicking the weekend off in the Priory Gardens with a superb solo set, to Roving Crows finally ending their long gig to the great displeasure of the audience who had been...
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Marlborough Rising: Saturday......
While The Priory rocked to Turin Brakes and the Castle & Ball thundered to Ray Harris' fusion of funk, soul, latin, jazz, The Doors and everything else that forces you on to the dance floor,...
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‘Lead at Speed’ – purpose and pace in today’s world – a new book from author...
A new book designed to help us respond to rapid change in today’s world has already received very positive reviews and reached number one in Amazon’s business best seller chart.
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Review: JS Monroe's new thriller "Forget My Name" - Who are you when you've...
Warning: may contain spoilers. What would you do if you woke up and realised you had forgotten everything? Who your family is, your friends, where you live, even your own name?
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Review: from Marlborough Rising, Kaleido Bay headline at The Vic
After their impressive set at the Marlborough Rising Talent event that we reported last September, marlborough.news followed up-and-coming indie rock band, Kaleido Bay, to Swindon - their home town -...
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REVIEW: John Virtue paintings at the White Horse Gallery - energy, immediacy,...
In 1960, the Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning produced a work he called Door to the River. For some reason, it’s a work that I’ve always envied; a work I wished I had been able to...
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Review: Dominic Degavino's brilliant programme of German piano music at St...
Dominic Degavino was the latest performer in this series of recitals by Brilliant Young International Musicians at St Peter’s Church - a programme of recitals now in its seventh year.
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Kenneth Armitage at the White Horse Gallery - challenges and delights
Following hot on the heels of the much-lauded John Virtue show, the White Horse Gallery is exhibiting a selection of drawings, prints and sculpture by Kenneth Armitage (1916-2002), who is considered to...
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St Peter's Church recitals: youthful Tee Trio enthral with youthful pieces by...
For the first time in this series of recitals by Brilliant Young Musicians, Saint Peter’s church welcomed a piano trio - three young graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. The Tee Trio has performed...
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Review: from Mozart to Bernstein - Ryan Drucker's piano recital at St Peter's...
Pianist Ryan Drucker performed the latest recital in the Saint Peter’s Brilliant Young Musicians series (Sunday, March 17). Ryan graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with a first class...
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Music Review: Kaleido's new release - 'Break Me For The Better'
Since Kaleido Bay’s exceptional set at Marlborough Rising Talent in September last year, marlborough.news has been following the band’s progress – January saw this reporter attending their high energy...
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Review: Timmy Saville - Paintings and Collage at the White Horse Gallery
On my way to Timmy Saville’s exhibition at the White Horse Gallery, I walked past the Costa coffee shop.
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REVIEW: Brilliant Young Musician An-Ting Chang's evening of fantasy
The latest in the Brilliant Young Musician series saw the return to St Peter's Church (26 May 2019) of the young pianist An-Ting Chang. She graduated from the National Taiwan University with...
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Marlborough Rising Talent: an afternoon performance by young local talent -...
Saturday (August 10) saw the return of Marlborough Rising Talent at the Town Hall - a free event showcasing the musical ability of various performers from the Marlborough area. This year the musicians...
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Marlborough Rising: Review of Wilding and Flyte at The Town Hall
On Saturday evening Marlborough Rising welcomed up-and-coming alternative pop quartet Flyte to the Town Hall. They were supported by the local group Wilding.
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A Victorian 'DUEL': the young aristocrat won the girl & gambled away a...
Marlborough is surrounded by top-flight racehorse trainers - it is a carefully regulated business. In Victorian times it was all very different with scandalous behaviour among some of England's...
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REVIEW: Yulia Chaplina's Russian programme opens new season of St Peter's...
The latest concert in the well–established Saint Peter’s series should have featured the piano duo Yulia Chaplina and Jonathan Deakin.
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Oboist Polly Bartlett and friends give the St Peter's audience a real treat...
There was a full house at St Peter's Church on Sunday (November 24) for the second recital in the eighth series of performances by Brilliant Young International Musicians.
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Review: The Big Moon - at Movida
Despite the arrival of Storm Brendan on Monday, Movida was packed upstairs for the arrival of London-based punk-pop band, The Big Moon. Playing a short set followed by a signing at Sound Knowledge in...
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St Peter's Church recital: really brilliant, young, international musicians -...
The second recital in the eighth series of Brilliant Young International Musicians at St Peter's Church brought together Timon Staehler, a German student in his second year at Marlborough College's...
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Preview: Exhibition of 'Recent prints from Wiltshire & Italy' - by College's...
The next exhibition in the Mount House Gallery is by Edward Twohig (Head of Art, Marlboorugh College) - ‘Recent prints from Wiltshire and Italy’. It opens on Frida,y 31st January. College student...
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St Peter's Church - Brilliant Young Musicians
Once again a large audience were treated to a spectacular performance of some very diverse and demanding music for violin and piano.
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