The 2011 Festival runs from June to September, and for the first time, you can buy tickets online!

In addition to our usual Artists Exhibition, we are once again bringing you a great lineup, including a fascinating opening event courtesy of Geoff Osborne and the East Anglian Film Archive. Heading up the Festival we have Paul Jones and Dave Kelly, a welcome return from The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, plus folk singer Bob Fox, and story-teller Hugh Lupton.

There will also be drama workshops for young people, a Father's Day walk, and lots more besides. See our brochure for further details.

HAPPINGS ARTISTS EXHIBITION
Monday to Saturday - 23 July - 14 September 2011 - 10.00am to 4.00pm

Original work by local artists. Paintings, prints and cards, textiles, jewellery, ceramics, clocks, sculpture and photography.

Entry to Gallery FREE.

High Street, Stalham. Enquiries to The Happing Shop, 35a High Street, Stalham 01692 580525

STALHAM AND THE NORTHERN BROADS - EAST ANGLIAN FILM ARCHIVE
Friday 10 June 2011 - Town Hall, High Street, Stalham

A tailor-made evening of local archive films, showing the changes to our area over the last 90 or so years.

Geoff Osborne will hand-pick films of local interest or significance and tell us about the work of the East Anglian Film Archive, established by David Cleveland in the late 1970s.

Full details here

PAUL JONES & DAVE KELLY
Wednesday 29 June 2011 - St Mary's Church, High Street, Stalham

The reviews say it all:
"A spell-binding evening of intense country blues passionately performed.”

“These guys transport you to another time, another place - they sure know where their hearts lie."

Full details here

ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS
Saturday 2 July 2011 - St Catherine's Church, Ludham

‘As you travel round the globe, the Academy’s name has an aura possessed by no other British orchestra.’ (Richard Morrison, The Times)

Firmly established as one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras.

Full details here

BOB FOX
Friday 5 August 2011 - The Lighthouse Inn, Coast Road, Walcott

“As soon as I heard him sing I realised that Bob Fox must have one of the best voices in England, he is an artist of great ability and integrity.”  - (Ralph McTell)

“BOB FOX, surely one of the great voices of the whole of the Folk Revival…” - (John Muirhead – Living Tradition)

Full details here

HUGH LUPTON
Saturday 6 August 2011 - The New Victory Hall, Neatishead

"One of Britain's leading story-tellers."

In turns funny, frightening, bawdy and playful, this performance celebrates the gossiping acres of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and the Fens, conjuring some colourful characters in the process - Black Shuck, Charlie Wag, Jack Ostler, Tom Hickathrift, Old Nol, Tom-Tit-Tot... and East Anglia’s patron saint - Edmund.

Full details here