Category: Arts & Culture

Building on its existing support for local music talent, Wave Telecom marks its commitment to supporting the local community as it announces its sponsorship of one of Guernsey’s longest running local music events. The Cobo Bay Hotel Balcony Gigs have been staged at the Hotel for the past 25 years and the third in the [...]

TEN islanders have been selected to perform alongside a West End cast in Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story at Beau Sejour in October, sponsored by Butterfield. Guernsey’s cast members include Miss Guernsey Natalie Thoumine, Leanne Oliver, Jodie Webber, Brandi Dawson, Gabriella Shier, Lee-Ann Hawkes, Nichola Hutchinson, Lee Rosete, Matthew Martel and Kieron Brook. The [...]

AUDITIONS for the West End smash hit Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story are just days away. Sponsored by Butterfield, up to 20 local performers have the chance to appear alongside the Buddy cast in October. Leading the panel of judges is Guernsey-born creative director of Milton Morrissey Ltd, Paul Morrissey. Butterfield Human Resources Manager [...]

Next Thursday’s (19th August 2010) ‘Digging for Britain’ programme on BBC2 will feature the largest Roman object ever found in Great Britain – a flat-bottomed ocean going ship discovered by local diver Richard keen in the 1980s. Local TV production company Spike Productions filmed the segment for the BBC in May this year. The crew [...]

UP TO twenty islanders have the chance to perform alongside a top West End cast in the smash hit musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story thanks to sponsorship from Butterfield. The curtain will rise on Milton Morrissey’s brand new production of the world’s greatest rock and roll musical at Beau Sejour on 14, 15 [...]

TOP husband and wife act ImagineJack are to return to the Island once again to perform at this year’s ‘Faete dla Musique’ which forms part of the Town Carnival festivities, beginning on Friday 17 July. The opera-singing duo will be amongst a host of UK and local acts to perform at the week-long event, which [...]

‘The Art of Conservation on the Island of Sark’ is set to be the very special 20 year jubilee project for the Dutch-based, non-profit, non-political organisation Artists for Nature Foundation (ANF). The ANF has an international network of 130 artists from 26 countries and through their work over the past 20 years, has highlighted some [...]

THE Princess Royal Centre for Performing Arts (PRCPA) has helped play a part in creating an ‘innovation of the arts’ through its involvement with the National Theatre and the live screening of events, such as the acclaimed performance of Phedre starring Dame Helen Mirren. In a report publicised yesterday by the National Endowment for Science, [...]

DON’T miss your chance to see the next act in this year’s Collins Stewart World Music Series. Asere draw their inspiration from traditional Cuban son, a style of music determined in the 1930s with guitar, tres (a small guitar with three double strings), double bass, brass and percussion, seven young musicians came together in the1990s [...]

Guernsey News, 6 May 2010 – A crescendo of excitement is building for the much anticipated Collins Stewart World Music Series 2010. Islanders of all ages will be moving to the beat of sounds influenced by Africa, the Andes, Quebec and Cuba thanks to continued sponsorship by the wealth management specialists. Audiences in Guernsey, Alderney [...]