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2025 Diary Dates:
Jan 10th Garry & Bear Jenny Lind (Sundowners) 5.30pm
Jan 12th Garry & Bear Brickmakers Arms Bexhill 3.00pm - 5.30pm
Jan 26th Garry & Bear Burns Night Jenny Miller
Jan 31st Garry & Bear The Plough West Hill from 8.30pm
Feb 21st Garry & Bear Dolphin 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Mar 01st Llama Legs - Private Party (Brendan)
Mar 16th Llama Legs - Royal Oak Pett from 4.30pm
Mar 17th Llama Legs The Albion - Paddy's Day 9.00pm - 11.00pm
Mar 21st Garry & Bear Jenny Lind - from 8.30pm
Mar 23rd Llama Legs - Queen's Head Icklesham 4.00pm - 6.00pm
FEAST OF FIDDLES TOUR
Apr 07 Nettlebed Village Club 01628 636620
Apr 08 Exeter Corn Exchange 01392 665938
Apr 09 Cardiff The Gate 029 2048 3344
Apr 10 Worcester Huntingdon Hall 01905 611427
Apr 11 Lowdham Village Hall 01159 653514
Apr 12 Hastings Pheonix Arts 07970 010002
Apr 14 Sevenoaks The Stag 01732 450175
Apr 15 Emsworth St. James Church 01243 379501
Apr 16 Spa Centre Leamington Spa 01926 334418
Apr 17 Bury St. Edmunds The Apex 01284 758000
Apr 18 Tewkesbury Roses Theatre 01684 295074
Apr 19 Milton Keynes The Stables 01908 2808005
May 4th Feast Of Fiddles Rochester Sweeps Festival
May 5th Garry & Bear JITG West Hill from 12 noon
May 9th Garry & Bear Dolphin 7.30pm - 9.30pm
May 11th Garry & Bear Fairlight Cove 6.00pm - 8.00pm
May 18th Garry & Bear Eastbourne Beer & Cider Festival 12.30pm - 1.30pm
May 25th Llama Legs Jenny Lind from 4.00pm
June 1st Llama Legs Royal Oak Pett 4.30pm start
June 08th Garry & Bear Rye Waterworks CANCELLED
June 21st Rosey's Book Launch - Noah's Goat 11.00am to 4.00pm
July 06th Ruddy Duck Bexhill
July 13th Llama legs FILO 7.00pm
July 26th beer fest Beckley
Aug 03rd Queen's Head Sedlescombe with Bear and Martin 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Aug 16th Garry & Bear Milligans Bar Bexhill 7.30pm
Aug 29th Garry & Bear Dolphin 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Aug 31st Garry & Bear Ruddy Duck Bexhill from 5.30pm
Sept 13th Garry & Bear The Bull Battle 9.00pm - 11.00pm
Sept 20th Garry Blakeley Band Tibbs Farm Hopfest Udimore 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Sept 28th Llama Legs Royal Oak Pett
Oct 5th Llama Legs Queen's Head Icklesham 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Oct 12th Garry & Bear Brickmakers Arms Bexhill 3.00pm - 5.30pm
Nov 21st Cut The Mustard + Garry Blakeley Queen's Head Sedlescombe 7.00pm - 9.30pm
Nov 23rd Llama Legs New Beach Club Pett from 3.00pm
Dec 5th Garry & Bear Dolphin 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Dec 7th Garry & Bear Horse & Groom St. Leonards 5.00pm - 7.00pm
Dec 13th Christmas Fair Bexhill 11.00am
2026 Diary Dates:
Feb 13th Dolphin Garry & Bear 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Feb 22nd FOF Rehearsal
Feb 23rd FOF Bexhill Academy Bexhill 07970 010002
Feb 24th FOF Apex Bury St. Edmund's 01284 758000
Feb 25th FOF Palace Theatre Redditch 01527 65203
Feb 26th FOF Twekesbury Roses Theatre 01684 295074
Feb 27th FOF The Pallant Havant 01243 379501
Feb 28th FOF The Beehive Honiton 01404 384050
Mar 2nd FOF Village Club Nettlebed 01628 636620
Mar 3rd FOF The Stables Milton Keynes 01908 280800
Mar 4th FOF Huntington Hall Worcester 01905 611427
Mar 5th FOF Alnwick Playhouse Alnwick 01665 660550
Mar 6th FOF The Lowther Pavilion Lytham St. Annes 01253 794221
Mar 7th FOF Town Hall Masham 01765 680200
Mar 17th Garry & Bear Milligan's Bar Bexhill 5.00pm - 7.00pm
Apr 24th Dolphin Garry & Bear Dolphin 7.30pm - 9.30pm
May 8th 9th 10th FOF
Sept 11th Dolphin Garry & Bear 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Dec 11th Dolphin Garry & Bear 7.30pm - 9.30pm
THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR
The Wheel of the Year is a truly fabulous and unique celebration of the annual cycle. It takes you on a passionate and exciting journey through the passages of history, whilst inviting you to experience the many magical festivals and traditions of the passing seasons.
The superb lyrics of Rose Blakeley are highly descriptive and are brought to life by the powerful and atmospheric music of Garry Blakeley (Feast of Fiddles). His stunning compositions are a beautiful combination of folk rock arrangements, slow airs and driving traditional tunes, which weave in and out of the rich, evocative narration of selected poetry and stories by Jane Downes (The Catsfield Steamers).
The Wheel of the Year also features some of the highlights of The Ceremony of May our successful and well-loved tribute to May Day and the famous Jack-in-the-Green.
This is an incredible production, which will totally enthral you and steal you away to a place of enchantment and imagination!
COME AND EXPERIENCE THE FEAST OF FIDDLES SHOW - you will not regret it !
Feast of Fiddles is a musical entertainment like no other – six of the UK’s finest fiddle players in a band of 11 which includes Dave Mattacks – the grandfather of folk rock drumming. Peter Knight of Steeleye Span, Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention, Brian McNeill, Ian Cutler, Tom Leary and Garry Blakeley bring their own individual styles together to visit many musical genres in a show that has a wide dynamic range and will have you dancing in the aisles and perhaps even shedding a tear. The 2013 tour is the band’s 20th annual outing and the critical acclaim gets louder every year. Bring even your sceptical friends, they won’t be disappointed.
“Absolutely awesome!” – Sue Marchant, BBC East
“Feast of Fiddles is far more than half-a-dozen of
Britain’s most talented exponents of the instrument.
It’s a joyous two hours of excellence and
exuberance.” Get Rhythm
“Your imaginative programme was riveting from start to finish. I relished the brilliance of tone colours in all sections; the violins soaring away, like the spring in the bow of an arrow, on an effortless flight path in perfect unison – like the first violins of a very great symphony orchestra – yet better, because of your innate musicianship, conductor-less craft, rhythm and palpable love of the many genres of music making you had to offer. You are seriously all great musicians.”
David Fanshawe – African Sanctus