Come and enjoy this ever popular trail which runs from Easter Monday for a week. Lots of family friendly fun following the trail through the dingle. Booking not required.

Fran from the Woodland Pack Company will host the day; children will enjoy exploring the woods with a focus on nature based activities and survival skills. Activities are aimed at children aged 6+ who must be accompanied by an adult. Morning and afternoon sessions available. Booking Required.

A major UK competition for the instrumentalists’ aged 18 and under will take place throughout the day in the Music Room. The chosen finalist compete for the prestigious Peter Garbett-Edwards trophy and major prize money. Concert tickets are £15.00 per person and can be reserved by emailing contact@gregynogymc.co.uk or purchased on the door.

Shepherd Geth Roberts (Llion Williams) might be getting on in years, but he still lives alone, high in the Elan Valley. A born storyteller, he’s spent his whole life working his wild and windswept farm. But now Geth faces his greatest challenge: his sight is failing and if he can’t see, then he can’t work the farm. Peter Cox’s one-man show, performed in English, is a heartwarming tribute to hill-farming communities across Wales.

Join Vicki Michelle and the Hormonal Housewives as they blast their witty way through a catalogue of women’s bits: weight gain, weight loss, mood swings, moody teenagers, men, zumba, therapy, housework, homework, electrolysis, men, sex, working out, staying in, going out, bikini waxes, celebrity gossip, eating, not eating, chocolate, wine, more chocolate, social media, more wine, and all the other joys of being a 21st century woman! No subject is taboo for these girls and no thought is too private as the challenges of modern womanhood are sliced, diced and put to rights. And that’s not all – audiences will be treated to some of the very best bits from the previous tour of this smash-hit show. A seriously funny evening – what these women can’t teach you about modern womanhood isn’t worth knowing...

The Montgomery Canal Triathlon 2019 is a great day out for families with children as well as experienced triathletes. The route involves cycling , walking and canoeing along the 35 miles of the Montgomery Canal , from Newtown to Lower Frankton, near Oswestry. The event is organised by the Friends of the Montgomery Canal and is supported by the Canal and River Trust in aid of the restoration of the canal A fun non competitive event - you can enter 1 , 2 or all 3 sections . Group entries are especially welcome There is a charge but that varies depending how many sections are entered varying from £5 for a junior entering 1 section to £25 for an adult entering all 3 sections. Canoes and equipment may be hired for a small fee but there is a very limited number available . It event starts at Severn Way, Newtown between 8.30-9.00 am and ends in the afternoon at the Western Arm, Lower Frankton

Join Newtown & District Male Voice Choir for a night of traditional and popular songs, as they bring their Annual Concert to The Hafren for the first time. The choir will be joined at the concert by two well-known musical artists, Tenor Aled Wyn Davies and Mezzo Soprano Sioned Terry, both of whom will be accompanied by Menna Griffiths. Local tenor Aled Wyn Davies, from Llanbrynmair, is returning to perform with the Choir by popular demand, following a well-received appearance at last year’s annual concert. Still working as a farmer by day, Aled has achieved great success as a soloist across Wales, winning the famous ‘Blue Ribband’ prize at the National Eisteddfod in Swansea in 2006. Since then, he has performed all over the world, and has also released two albums, Nodau Aur fy Nhân in 2006, and Erwau’r Daith in 2015. In 2014, he joined Rhys Meirion and Aled Hall as one of the Three Welsh Tenors. Originally from North Wales, classically trained mezzo soprano Sioned Terry performs a range of songs spanning genres from opera to popular songs from stage & screen, lieder, oratorio and Welsh classics. She is a familiar face on S4C, having recorded performances for several popular light entertainment programmes, including Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol and Noson Lawen. Her first EP, Think of Me / Cofia Fi, was published in 2013, and she is also a composer, having published a collection of songs for voice and piano. Sioned also performs across Wales as part of the female trio Athena. The choir will be conducted by Musical Director Sarah Astley-Davies and accompanied by Greg Jenkins, and they will also be joined by Geraint Peate as compere for the evening.

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Around the World in 80 Days - Mark Beaumont set out to make this Victorian fiction a two wheeled reality. Having smashed the circumnavigation cycling World Record twice in his career, he now holds this 18,000 mile title in a time of 78 days and 14 hours, averaging 240 miles a day. Over the past decade, Mark’s epic documentaries have taken viewers to over 100 countries, into the Arctic, the high mountains and around the Commonwealth, also surviving capsize in the mid-Atlantic. Showing films and photography, these events are a fascinating insight into Mark’s career of adventure.

Themed walks – Heritage, foraging, dog and family friendly, pub lunch, singing, treasure hunts. Guided walks – Walks to suit all abilities from 4 to 15 miles. Foraging walks featuring Edible Newtown, History, Heritage and Town walks, dog walks, walks suitable for buggies pushchairs and mobility scooters, stroll and sing and picnic. Treasure Hunts – Nature treasure hunt for all the family. History treasure hunt based on Newtown’s textile industry and featuring "hunt- the -sheep" all over the town. Self-Guided Walks – Pick up a leaflet and walk with friends. More information newtownwalks@hotmail.com and /or http://newtown.org.uk/walks

Now in its second year, Monty Lit Fest celebrates authors in Wales and the Welsh borders, with an annual festival circulating through key locations in Montgomeryshire. This year, the Festival will take place in the splendid surroundings of Gregynog Hall, near Newtown. We are pleased to welcome a stellar line up of leading literary talent including Sir Simon Jenkins, Clare Mackintosh and Horatio Clare, alongside lunchtime sessions for aspiring authors and a free lunchtime concert of harp music. Our authors will also be on hand to sign copies of their books for you to purchase from a pop-up bookstore at the Festival provided by Oswestry’s award-winning independent Booka Bookshop. The Children’s Programme will run parallel with that of the main authors and will be organised by Woodland Pack Company - www.woodlandpack.co.uk. They will run nature-based activities from their outdoor bell tent, including crafts, games, poetry writing and story time with authors including Matt Sewell, Elizabeth Garner and Myfanwy Alexander. We are very grateful to our sponsors: Luned and David Corser, The Welsh Historic Gardens Trust and Field Mouse Research (to take part in paid market research, email hello@fmresearch. co.uk).

Now in its second year, Monty Lit Fest celebrates authors in Wales and the Welsh borders, with an annual festival circulating through key locations in Montgomeryshire. This year, the Festival will take place in the splendid surroundings of Gregynog Hall, near Newtown. We are pleased to welcome a stellar line up of leading literary talent including Sir Simon Jenkins, Clare Mackintosh and Horatio Clare, alongside lunchtime sessions for aspiring authors and a free lunchtime concert of harp music. Our authors will also be on hand to sign copies of their books for you to purchase from a pop-up bookstore at the Festival provided by Oswestry’s award-winning independent Booka Bookshop. The Children’s Programme will run parallel with that of the main authors and will be organised by Woodland Pack Company - www.woodlandpack.co.uk. They will run nature-based activities from their outdoor bell tent, including crafts, games, poetry writing and story time with authors including Matt Sewell, Elizabeth Garner and Myfanwy Alexander. We are very grateful to our sponsors: Luned and David Corser, The Welsh Historic Gardens Trust and Field Mouse Research (to take part in paid market research, email hello@fmresearch. co.uk).

Now in its second year, Monty Lit Fest celebrates authors in Wales and the Welsh borders, with an annual festival circulating through key locations in Montgomeryshire. This year, the Festival will take place in the splendid surroundings of Gregynog Hall, near Newtown. We are pleased to welcome a stellar line up of leading literary talent including Sir Simon Jenkins, Clare Mackintosh and Horatio Clare, alongside lunchtime sessions for aspiring authors and a free lunchtime concert of harp music. Our authors will also be on hand to sign copies of their books for you to purchase from a pop-up bookstore at the Festival provided by Oswestry’s award-winning independent Booka Bookshop. The Children’s Programme will run parallel with that of the main authors and will be organised by Woodland Pack Company - www.woodlandpack.co.uk. They will run nature-based activities from their outdoor bell tent, including crafts, games, poetry writing and story time with authors including Matt Sewell, Elizabeth Garner and Myfanwy Alexander. We are very grateful to our sponsors: Luned and David Corser, The Welsh Historic Gardens Trust and Field Mouse Research (to take part in paid market research, email hello@fmresearch. co.uk).

Gregynog Festival, Wales’s oldest classical music festival, returns in June with its traditional combination of beautiful summer events in idyllic Mid Wales locations. The season celebrates the vision of the Davies family – Gwendoline and Margaret Davies and their brother David, 1st Baron Davies – for a better world rooted in culture and peace following the First World War. 2019 marks 100 years since Gregynog Festival’s first Artistic Director, Henry Walford Davies, became first Gregynog Professor of Music at Aberystwyth University, 1919-26, and first Director of the National Council of Music for Wales, 1919-41: appointments that were funded by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. The season also celebrates the anniversaries of two foundations sponsored by David Davies: the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University and the Temple of Peace and Health in Cardiff. Highlights in the historic Music Room at Gregynog, near Newtown, include the Odysseus Piano Trio (Friday, 28 June, 7.30pm) whose concert pays tribute to the Aberystwyth Trio appointed by Walford Davies in 1919 as the first resident chamber ensemble at any University in the world. The Trio gave free weekly concerts to students and townspeople and even shared the platform with Béla Bartók when he made his UK début at Aberystwyth in March 1922. Gregynog also hosts A Nocte Temporis, directed by the tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen, in a beautiful programme of arias by Bach (Saturday, 29 June, 7.30pm). Flemish tenor Van Mechelen and French Baroque ensemble A Nocte Temporis, featuring the flautist Anna Besson, are the rising stars of the early music world and this will be their début appearance in Wales. In addition to Gregynog Hall, Festival Events also take place at: National Library of Wales - 22 June VRi, Ty Ein Tadau (also at Pontcadfan, Llangadfan on 23 June) and 28 June Rhian Davies, Walford and Wales. Aberystwyth (Bethel Chapel, Baker St) - 30 June - Meirion Wynn Jones, organ recital.

Rich Hall's critically acclaimed new show begins its second leg of touring. There has never been a better time to be an American comedian in the UK. Hall’s precision dismantling of the tenuous relationship between two countries is as freewheeling and deadly accurate as ever. His BBC Four documentaries, most recently Rich Hall’s Countrier Than You and Rich Hall’s Presidential Grudge Match and BBC Radio 4 series Rich Hall’s (US Election) Breakdown have built him a new legion of followers, as has appearances on Have I Got News For You and QI. But if you’ve only ever seen Hall on TV, you’ve short-changed yourself. The Hoedown begins as a withering dissection of Trump's America, but ends up being a celebration of Americana. There’s stand-up, improvised ballads, cracking good musicianship, and ultimately a hilarious, foot-stomping, shit-kicking good time to be had by all. Even if you don’t own a hoe. 14+ (Parental Guidance) Likely to be swearing and adult content.

Another opportunity to hear the Artistic Director’s introduction to the season curation, this time as a pre-concert talk at at the National Library. Born in Oswestry, Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) was one of the most famous British musicians of his generation as an organist, composer and broadcaster. He was invited by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies to become the first Artistic Director of the Gregynog Festival in 1933, and succeeded Edward Elgar as Master of the King’s Musick in 1934. Artistic Director Dr Rhian Davies’s lecture considers Walford Davies’s ambition ‘to further the expression of Welsh nationality in music’ and his visionary initiatives that were funded thanks to the ‘boundless generosity’ of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. Free entry - ticket required.

Core classical repertoire and music by Welsh composers associated with the Aberystwyth Trio, the first resident chamber ensemble at any University in the world. Formed in 2015, the Odysseus Piano Trio is developing a reputation as one of the most dynamic and distinctive ensembles to emerge in recent years. The Trio brings a fresh perspective to core works of the repertoire while championing lesser-known pieces. Violinist Sara Trickey has been praised by The Strad for her ‘fiery and passionate’ performance style. She recently made world première recordings of William Mathias for Naxos and has a long-term collaborative relationship with the composer David Matthews.

Rala Rwdins returns to Wales’ theatres! Rwtsh Ratsh Rala Rwdins was Arad Goch’s very first production and to celebrate the company’s 30th birthday, we’re taking it on tour once again! Join the adventure in the land of Rwla, as our favourite characters try to solve Dewin Dwl’s big secret! Written by the award winning author of the series Angharad Tomos and directed by Jeremy Turner. Suitable for children 3-8 years old and their families; a Welsh language production.

A lecture by Craig Owen, the Head of Wales for Peace, to mark 80 years since the Temple of Peace and Health opened in Cardiff to commemorate the men and women of all nations who died in the Great War.

A Nocte Temporis: Reinoud Van Mechelen, tenor, director. Erbarme dich, an all-Bach programme of arias for tenor, flute, cello and harpsichord, performed by the multi-award-winning Flemish tenor and French Baroque ensemble. Reinoud Van Mechelen graduated from the Brussels Royal Conservatoire in 2012 and was awarded the prestigious Caecilia Prize for Young Musician of the Year by the Belgian music press in 2017. After working for several years as a soloist with conductors including William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe, Hervé Niquet and Christophe Rousset, he founded his own ensemble A Nocte Temporis in 2016. A Nocte Temporis means ‘from time immemorial’: a nod toward the past, to what is changing, and especially toward what remains unchanged. The aim is to present historically-informed performances that touch the emotions of as wide an audience as possible. The ensemble’s two CDs, Erbarme dich: Arias of J. S. Bach for tenor and flute (2016) and Clérambault: Cantates françaises (2018), have been released to unanimous critical acclaim, and gained awards including two CHOCs from Classica magazine (‘A Bach recording blessed by the Gods’), five Diapasons, a Diapason d’Or, and a Caecilia Prize as one of the ten best recordings of 2016. After touring its Bach programme to Warsaw, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Pavia, A Nocte Temporis has been invited to perform at prestigious venues including the Festival Radio France (Montpellier), MA Festival (Brugge), Bozar (Brussels), Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles and Wigmore Hall. Their Gregynog Festival recital marks their début appearance in Wales.

Dr Jan Ruzicka, ‘Considering all the peoples of the world as one’: David Davies and international politics. The Director of the David Davies Memorial Institute considers how the world’s first Chair of International Politics came to be founded at Aberystwyth University in 1919.

Back by ever-growing popular demand, get ready to party as the UK’s favourite Rock & Roll variety production returns with another brand new show! Featuring incredible live music performances, this hugely entertaining Rock & Roll spectacular blends classic gold hits from the 50s, 60s & 70s, with bags of hilarious comedy! Celebrating an entire era of timeless nostalgia, the production is well known for its ability to make audiences return time and time again for a new experience. Now in its 33rd year of consecutive national touring, That’ll Be The Day is living proof that Rock & Roll will never die!

Specialists will be at the Hall for free auction valuation for pictures, silver & jewellery, works of art, furniture and general antiques. Bonhams fine book department will also be on hand to advise on books and manuscripts. Tea & cakes will be on sale in our Blayney Room. Booking required.

This summer, WNO Orchestra returns with an ever-popular collection of unmissable opera classics. WNO’s talented orchestral musicians are joined by conductor Harry Ogg and soloists Joyce El-Khoury and Jason Howard for this special concert. The programme journeys through a wealth of operatic repertoire including works by Verdi, Puccini, Dvorák and Wagner. We also enter the world of musical theatre, and feature delights from Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. With much-loved favourites and a few lesser-known gems, be sure to book soon for an unforgettable evening of opera.

Come & Explore the grounds at Gregynog and follow our summer nature trail. See what birds & animals you can spot and what plants, flowers & trees are growing i the grounds. Trail £2. Booking not required

At the Music Room, Gregynog Hall, join the Friends of Mid Wales Opera for their annual fundraising summer’s evening of opera to launch MWO’s new “In-fidelity” season. This specially devised concert, featuring talented young singers from the Wales International Academy of Voice, will be entertainingly led by Charlotte Forrest from the piano, whose previous concerts for MWO have proved hugely enjoyable.

Gregynog will once again be opening its doors.Mary Oldham our Librarian will be giving talk on the history of the hall on 13th at 11am, 15th at 2pm & 20th at 11am. Entry to the hall is free, talk are £5.00 per person and must be booked in advance

Gregynog will once again be opening its doors.Mary Oldham our Librarian will be giving talk on the history of the hall on 13th at 11am, 15th at 2pm & 20th at 11am. Entry to the hall is free, talk are £5.00 per person and must be booked in advance

The annual Newtown Food Festival celebrating great food, drink and music The main sections of the festival include: Food Producers Tent, Street Food, Community Lawn (with Bar,) The Childrens Village and the Music Lawn.

Spend a relaxing day creating Christmas Decorations. An ideas sheet and list of material required will be provided. Everyone will take at least two decorations home. Price includes tea and coffee on arrival, two course festive lunch and afternoon tea served with mince pies. Booking required

Why not get your child into the festive spirit and create a Christmas decoration for your home or garden. Join Fran from the Woodland Pack and her team for this festive family activity where you will use natural materials to make your decoration. £12per child

Come & visit Santa, follow the trail to find him in his Grotto along with his busy elves. Each participating child will receive a gift from Santa and a hot chocolate. £6 per child Booking not required.

Come & enjoy a Festive Afternoon Tea. Relax with a glass of mulled wine and a selection of festive sandwiches & cakes and take in the festive atmostphere.

Enjoy a fabulous three course festive lunch in our decorated Music Room, exchange gifts and relax in the beautiful surroundings of the decorated Hall. Booking required.