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Solution GraphicsYou can select the required number of tickets for each event when you view the cart. Except where stated, tickets for these events are also available to personal callers at the Town Council office in the Civic Centre, adjacent to the Library (payment by cash or cheque only). For all other events, see the details of ticketing on the Festival events page.

Tickets will also be available on the door – provided we have not reached our maximum capacity, in which case we will indicate it clearly on this website.

Date Event Price  
17 May Dom Joly’s Holiday Snaps £18 Sorry – sold out
18 May Playcircle 10.00am £6 for each individual, regardless of age Booking closed
18 May Playcircle 11.30am £6 for each individual, regardless of age Booking closed
18 May Playcircle 1pm £6 for each individual, regardless of age Booking closed
18 May Mithras Trio £15 Booking closed
19 May A Day in the Wardrobe Truck £8 Sorry – sold out
21 May Fate Faith and Fortune £8 Booking closed
22 May Philip Clouts Trio £15 This event was cancelled because of illness
23 May Cotswold Dinosaurs and Beyond £8 Booking closed
23 May Best in Show £7 Booking closed
24 May Ken Wood & the Mixers £10 Sorry – sold out
24 May Dinosaur Events for children 10am £2 Booking closed
24 May Dinosaur Events for children 11am £2 Sorry – sold out
Online booking all closed

Note that we will not be posting out tickets. Simply bring along evidence of your booking. Your PayPal receipt or our confirmation email will be fine, visible on your smartphone or printed out if you prefer.  If you have any problems with any aspect of this process, please contact us at tickets@nailsworthfestival.org.uk  Please note that it is not possible to reserve tickets using this email address.

Sat 17May2025

Dom Joly's "Holiday Snaps"

7.30 pm

At Town Hall, GL6 0JF

£18

 

Dom Joly is best known as the creator of “Trigger-Happy TV” –but he’s also a writer, broadcaster and intrepid adventurer in extraordinary locations. In Dom Joly’s “Holiday Snaps”, he’ll be talking about his exploits as a serial globe-trotting seeker of dangerous travel spots. From North Korea through the Congo and Syria to Chernobyl, he’s visited some of the most unusual places on theplanet. Joly famously attended school with  Osama Bin Laden and, armed with a trusty PowerPoint, fans can expect his holiday snaps to provide comedy and a sense of danger.

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Sorry - Sold out

 

Sun 18May2025

Playcircle - Seasons Go Round

Interactive musical sessions with a full band, parachute, ribbons, scarves and bubbles, sensory and imaginative musical play for families.

10.00am, 11.30am and 1.00pm

At Town Hall, GL6 0JF

£6 for each individual, regardless of age

Come, join in and sing along with your favourite Playcircle songs at our musical family extravaganza! This special Nailsworth Festival event is to celebrate the launch of the Summer selection of our new album, Seasons Go Round. Live music, Bear and Mouse and bubbles, plus our full band line-up will make this event magical for the whole family!

Tickets available online only

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www.playcircle.co.uk
https://playcircle.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3A4J6uOFELcsdIya2JbDob?si=t1t8mftSQ8u1NHgryprc2w

 

 

Sun 18May2025

Mithras Trio

Sponsored in memory of the late Robert Stiling, Brownshill, Stroud

7.30pm

At Christ Church, GL6 0DQ

£15

The Mithras Trio have established themselves as one of the next generation’s most exciting and dynamic piano trios. Named as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists for the 2021-2023 seasons, they have recorded extensively for BBC Radio 3, as well as giving live-broadcast concerts. They have performed at many of London’s major venues, including Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, and have also appeared in concert across Europe and North America. Their programme features works by Haydn and Mendelssohn and music from Ravel and his contemporary Mel Bonis. The Guardian: ‘seriously good chamber music playing’, The Arts Desk: ‘exhilarating, highly-toned performances’.

Refreshments available.

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Mon 19May2025

Helen Ingham

“A Day on the Wardrobe Truck”

7.30pm

At Egypt Mill, GL6 0AE

£8

Helen has worked for nearly thirty years in the British Film Industry. She started out in wardrobe making costumes, but spent most of her career dressing and working with lead actors, including: Renee Zellweger, Jude Law, Meryl Streep and Maggie Smith. Helen says: ‘Come with me as I take you through a day in the life of a costume assistant. I’ll try and explain the circus that is a production in motion and what that involved for me working on some well-known projects with some of the stars of stage and screen’. Helen will bring professional photographs of many of the stars and also has scripts from Downton Abbey, Sherlock, Bridget Jones and Stan & Ollie for people to look at.

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Sorry - sold out

Wed 21May2025

Hannah Moore and Fiona Eadie

Stories of Fate, Faith and Fortune

7.30pm

At Town Hall, GL6 0JF

£8

A journey of stories along the sometimes comic, sometimes dangerous, path between choice and chance. Storytellers Hannah Moore and Fiona Eadie bring you an evening of wisdom and humour from the old tales, in a programme full of fools and sages, hurdles and hiccoughs, doom and destiny. Suitable for aged 10+

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Thu 22May2025

Philip Clouts Quartet

7.30pm

At St George’s Church, GL6 0BP

£15

We are very sorry that, as a result of illness, we have had to cancel this event. We will make full refunds for all advance ticket sales, but please give us us space to do this as we need to involve a number of our volunteer organisers  who may not be instantly available. It will happen and we will endeavour to keep you informed.

Melodic jazz with inspirations from around the world. Cape Town-born pianist/composer Clouts’ South African roots have inspired a voyage of discovery that has led to him soaking up the joyful passion of Caribbean calypso, the bluesy melodies of Middle Eastern praise songs, the exuberant sway of Cuban dance music and the tuneful essence of Gospel, while honouring jazz heroes including Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, and Charles Lloyd. On their latest CD, entitled Umoya, Clouts’ African inspirations extend beyond Cape jazz to Gnawa music and Afrobeat, and further to pan-European folksong and soul-jazz. Joined by rising star saxophonist Samuel Eagles, bassist Tim Fairhall and drummer Ted Carrasco, he brings his musical journey alive with superb musicianship and infectious vigour. Chris Phillips Jazz FM: ‘The best of British jazz’; The Guardian: ‘Precise ebullience and relaxed funkiness’.

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Fri 23May2025

'Cotswold Dinosaurs and Beyond'

Palaeontologist Dr William Blows

7.30pm

At Town Hall, GL6 0JF

£8

 

Proceratosaurus bradleyi

A dinosaur ancestor of T Rex was excavated on Minchinhampton Common in 1910. Palaeontologist William Blows, co-author of the book ‘Cotswold Dinosaurs’, will give a talk with slides about the various dinosaur fossils he has found locally and beyond. In 1979 he found a rare species of armoured dinosaur, a Polacanthus, only the second specimen ever discovered. Apart from his PhD in Palaeontology, he has a BSc in Biology, and is composer of 25 orchestral symphonies.

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Fri 23May2025

'Best in Show'

Nailsworth Film Club

Doors open 7pm, start 7:30pm

At Arkell Centre, GL6 0BG

£7

Nailsworth Film Club presents “Best in Show", an amusing spoof documentary of the world of dog shows. Which is the prettiest, handsomest, most amusing dog?

Bring a picture of your dog and enter the competition on the night!

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Sat 24May2025

Ken Wood & the Mixers

“Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul: The Road Trip” Support:Tim Hughes Blues

8pm

At Town Hall, GL6 0JF

£10

Ken Wood & the Mixers brought the house down when they previously played at Nailsworth Festival. Now they’re back with a whole new show that they’ve been performing at festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe, over the past year. Spearheaded by that whirling R&B dervish Mr Kenneth B Woode, and featuring the Mixers’ full eight-piece line-up, “Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul: The Road Trip” is the Mixers’ very own big stage show and takes audiences on a rollicking journey around the places where soul, blues and R&B were born - with the stories, the songs and a wild stage show that capture the raw energy of the early days of rhythm and blues. Fringe Review: ‘Top notch musicianship with segues that are both informative and funny. The whole show fizzes with noise and energy. What’s not to like!’.

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Sat 24May2025

Dinosaur events for children

10am – 10.45am & 11am – 11.45am

At Mortimer Room, GL6 0DU

Tickets £2, children/adults. No unaccompanied children, ideally one adult only per family/friend group.

Suitable for children 6 – 11, who must be accompanied by an adult. Display of dinosaur fossils, with a talk by palaeontologist William Blows, followed by dinosaur egg hatching simulation and photo opportunity.

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