earlier in Halesworth

Tomorrow the Halesworth Cut's  2020 Vision with drinks, nibbles and live music.♫  It's free but you need to book.

Part of the charitable National Garden Scheme.Becks End Farm Westhall (it's maybe three miles north of Halesworth) is open today 11am-5pm.

Theatrical the approaching weekend.  The Harleston Players start Friday a run of the restoration comedy The Beaux Stratagem, Open Space Theatre present Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Hoxne and at the Halesworth Cut, and in Framlingham Rosy Carrick's one woman show Passionate Machine.

Today there's a choice of a free admission jumble sale in Dennington village hall (a chance to see the recent refurbishment with an enormous new window) or the fifth Halesworth day of dance in ... err Halesworth.  You could do both.

Starting Monday Roughcast Theatre have an eight date Suffolk tour of the comedy Hobson's Choice.  near the coast venues are Hoxne, Wingfield (nearly SOLD OUT) and the Halesworth Cut.

Loads happening Saturday: During the day Christmas Bazaars in Brundish, Halesworth Cut and at the Riverside Centre Stratford St Andrew; in the evening the private view for Studio 90 Rendham's Winter Show, the Fat Band at Charsfield Village Hall and Vix and the Kicks (she does make the effort) at the Halesworth lights on. ♫

Tonight at the Wingfield Barns Open Space Theatre start a tour around near the coast of Tennessee William's Suddenly Last Summer.  Performance this Saturday at the Huntingfield Hub and the Saturday after at the Halesworth Cut.

Do you remember Hippy Jo who sold Fairtrade clothing on Framlingham Market?  Some five years ago she left to open her shop Banyan in the Thoroughfare Halesworth.  We made an impromptu social visit last week to discover she wasn't there because these days she has staff ... now that is an Enterprising Hippy.

♫ Yesterday afternoon at the Halesworth Cut the two person Opera-lele melodically worked their way through mainstream opera, adverts and some musicals.  Lots of jokes and the audience who were having a lovely time and had been encouraged to join in hummed the chorus' part to Nesunn Dorma ... what a knowledgeable lot.

The 16th Halesworth Arts Festival kicked off Saturday with a sold out Chris Barber Big Band but shows still to come over the next two weeks include singer Stacey Kent, witty Kathy Lette, the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, and silent film Chicago with live accompaniment. ♫

♫ Very pleased to welcome back supporter the Halesworth Arts Festival and we're intrigued by the prospect of klezmer (with Celtic and gypsy music) from the Dodo Steet Band, presumably the recorder of Piers Adams must substitute for clarinet?

Early Saturday evening a woman tending a grave in the Holt Road Cemetery Halesworth was assaulted.

The closed Ipswich-Halesworth rail service should re-open today.

Laying new track will close the Ipswich-Halesworth rail service for nine days from this Saturday the 29th and the Ipswich-Felixstowe for the next two weekends.  Ipswich-Halesworth stations affected include Woodbridge, Wickham Market and Saxmundham, there will be replacement bus services for both lines.

FREE  kid's morning matinees at the Halesworth Cut, we're a bit late telling you about Trolls but you could still make The Secret Life of Pets, Finding Dory and The BFG.

A nice thing about the Halesworth Cut for a photographer is you can discretely move via the back of the seating from one side to the other.  Not any more though, on our last visit we discovered that the gap on the far side has gone in anticipation of new and reorganised seating this autumn.  Buy a little piece of immortality by sponsoring a seat.

Where's Elvis? and Hippy Jo in Halesworth and 2013, 2012 and 2011.

The beautifully elegant Buster Keaton in his feature length silent comedy The General (with live piano accompaniment from Tom Horton) at the Halesworth Cut tomorrow evening.

♫ In our uninformed way we suspected that 4 Girls 4 Harps (like the Ukulele Orchestra ... odd simile we know) would be one trick ponies but last night in the Halesworth Cut (like the Ukes) they proved us completely wrong.  The range of both the repertoire and the sound of the harps was way beyond the sound track to a dream sequence.  Encoring with the clog dance from La Fille Mal Gardée was just so right ... next Sunday concert the 26th of this month.

Halesworth Arts Festival director Matthew Wetmore has pointed out that though this is the sixth year of the Sunday Concerts it will be the sixteenth festival this autumn.  We strongly suspect that as always like a Michelin three star it will be worth making a special journey for.