Category: What’s On

This year’s Nevill Holt Festival (Friday 30 May - Sunday 22 June) includes in addition to last month’s list.

Saturday 22 March

One of the most rewarding pastimes is a short amble around a nearby local village. Looking at the various architectural buildings and admiring peoples’ front gardens etc. Luckily for us Harborough have a number of leaflets available which will guide one to see unusual or interesting features that the passing viewer might not notice straightaway.

Kibworth & Fleckney Rotary are hosting a fundraising event featuring two musical groups, the Leicester Grammar School Big Band and Youth Brass 2000 in a concert in St Nicholas Hall, Leicester Grammar School, London Road, Great Glen, LE8 9FL on Friday 21 March at 7pm. Tickets are priced at £12 each and are available from TicketSource.

Our 2025 programme began on 9 January with Ginnette Brookes’s talk: ‘Dance is for Everyone’.

We are very much looking forward to a wonderful concert by The Frontiers Trio, starting at 7pm in the church.

Billesdon Drama Society’s next play will be ‘The Cemetery Club’, a bittersweet comedy by Ivan Menchell.

Certification: PG - 12A

Snowdrops are the harbingers of spring. According to folk law the white of the snowdrop symbolises the light of the winter sun. This light gets stronger as the days lengthen towards spring.

This year’s Nevill Holt Festival (Friday 30 May - Sunday 22 June) includes ‘Richard E Grant’, ‘An audience with Prue Leith DBE’ and a series of musical concerts entitled ‘Harlem Nights: In the Spirit of Swing,’ as well as’Pam Ayres’ and comedy from ‘Underbelly’s Comedy Allstars’. Also the festival will see the return of some favourites from 2024; ‘Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra’, ‘Aggers & Tuffers: Part 2’ and ‘Jason Byrne.’
Opera North are co-producing ‘Cosi fan tutte’ which promises to whisk you away to the 18th century with dazzling disguises, seductive schemes and lavish costumes.