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Watford Fringe Festival moving to July with an extended run

Wed 28 Feb 2024

Watford Fringe Festival moving to July with an extended run

The Watford Fringe is back for 2024 and is moving to July with a whole month of the best of festival entertainment right on your doorstep. The 8th Watford Fringe – the annual festival which brings high quality perform.....Read more

A first love immortalised in music

Wed 23 Aug 2023

A first love immortalised in music

A piece of music that the Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich wrote for his first love when he was only 16 will be one of the highlights of an afternoon concert that Three Rivers Music Society is to hold in Rickmanswor.....Read more

Jazz musician who found  inspiration during Covid lockdowns

Sun 31 Dec 2023

Jazz musician who found inspiration during Covid lockdowns

Modern jazz pianist and composer John Donegan will be showcasing numbers from his critically acclaimed new album at a concert in Rickmansworth on Monday, January 15. The highly regarded Chorleywood musician wrote and .....Read more

A concert good enough for royalty

Tue 24 Oct 2023

A concert good enough for royalty

Valeria Kurbatova is a multi-award-winning harpist who has performed for King Charles as well as rock royalty, in the shape of the Rolling Stones. She has played in the Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Palace, the Barbic.....Read more

From cinema organist to celebrated composer

Wed 20 Sep 2023

From cinema organist to celebrated composer

Back in 1931 Florence Price was a single mother who made ends meet by playing cinema and church organs and writing songs for radio commercials. But today she is celebrated as the first African-American woman to have h.....Read more

From Pole to Pole … musically speaking

Tue 14 Nov 2023

From Pole to Pole … musically speaking

One of the country’s leading classical pianists will perform master works by Frederic Chopin at a concert in Rickmansworth on Monday, December 4. Tim Horton, who has played at the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival H.....Read more