♫ In our uninformed way we suspected that4 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.
sa 4 Feb 2017
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.
sa 26 Nov 2016
A Grand Bazaar at the Halesworth Cut all this weekend and the Framlingham St John Christmas Coffee Morning today.
th 17 Nov 2016
Tina Bradshaw eastern life coach starts by serving audience members from a teapot special tea that turns out to be white wine ... it goes on from there. Last night in the Halesworth Cut she was predominantly comic parody but affectionate and endearing parody with a little actual counselling, or perhaps rather more a group of friends talking with one of their number who had opened up a little. She is a complete one off, catch her if you can.
th 22 Sep 2016
The first silent film we saw with piano accompaniment was the German monolith (it's a good idea to take sandwiches) Metropolis and the pianist put in two rather good musical jokes. Tomorrow night's film at the Halesworth Cut is the Harold Lloyd comedySafety Lastso accompanist Tom Horton won't need to be funny in his own right.
th 1 Sep 2016
♫ Next month the 15th HalesworthArts Festival has another broad programme including opera, cabaret, classical, folk, jazz, choral, the man in the white suit and co-creator of Drop the Dead Donkey and the brilliant Outnumbered Andy Hamilton.
fr 11 Mar 2016
Roughcast Theatre start a tour tonight of the farceCharley's Aunt at the Seagull Theatre Lowestoft. Upcoming venues include Halesworth, Wingfield and the Diss Corn Hall.
tu 2 Feb 2016
The first of the Halesworth Arts Festival's occasional Sunday concerts is next Sunday. The comparatively youthful (they were formed in 2014) Fitzroy Quartet will give a programme of Haydn, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. ♫
sa 16 Jan 2016
JOBS As of today there seem to be care (mostly night) assistants wanted in Eye, Framlingham, Halesworth, Saxmundham and Woodbridge.
we 30 Dec 2015
At the Halesworth Cut last night in front of a good house The Blacksmith Who Chased The Moon is based on a story by 19th century Russian author Nikolai Gogol so not your usual panto then ... but lots of physical stuff from the male actors, some spectacular effects, lots of laughs My father is the Lord Mayor of Southwold ... we are not wealthy and despite the pic a family show. Blacksmith continues at The Cut until Sunday 3rd January.
we 14 Oct 2015
The 14th Halesworth arts festival started this week and continues until next month closing with the very excellent Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell. As always lots of interesting stuff including Liverpool poet Brian Patten and ex-England cricket captain David Gower. Annoyed we can't make this Saturday for Fascinating Aida founder member Dillie Keane who if you're lucky will render this amusing bit of doggerel.
Life Skills6: When did you last make a call from a pay phone box? (Yes, they do still exist, this one's near Halesworth station.) We think our last time was ten years ago in Epping High Street and we put a pound coin in to be safe, nowadays it's a bit more complicated.
The Tramps in the the Halesworth Cut last night has moved on since we last saw it in the Eye bank, it now includes a running joke about Ed Sheeran with his lovely red hair and his lovely blue eyes.
fr 10 Apr 2015
♫ Mark Olson played the first Maverick Festival in Easton, if memory serves he played Saturday night in the barn. Maverick present him again tonight at the Halesworth Cut.
fr 27 Mar 2015
Halesworth Area Community Transport have received funding from the Department of Transport for a 16 seat coach with disabled access. It will be available for hire to schools and community groups and can be driven on an ordinary Group B car license.
su 22 Mar 2015
This afternoon at the Cut the last of the Halesworth Arts afternoon concerts.
sa 21 Feb 2015
♫ Diana Jones plus Lewis and Leigh at Easton farm park tonight and the Halcyon Quartet at the Halesworth Cut tomorrow afternoon.
th 22 Jan 2015
♫ Starting next month the HalesworthArts Festival is presenting four fortnightly Sunday lunchtime concerts at The Cut. The series starts with the Aurora Trio and will also host string ensembles the Halcyon (pic on right) and Piatti quartets and the Atéa Wind Quintet who interestingly mix brass and woodwind.
su 18 Jan 2015
Halesworthrailway station is to get a ticket machine and CCTV on the Lowestoft bound platform. The station is just a few minutes from The Cut, venue for the HighTide festival. This year the festival relocates to Aldeburgh ... thanks to Dr Beeching the Aldeburgh station closed in 1966 ...
tu 30 Dec 2014
We saw the Common Ground Theatre Companylast year in the Halesworth Cut. Since then principal Julian Harries has been the pub quiz master in an episode of Detectorists. The company's Christmasshow The Tinder Box is out on the road around near the coast with tonight the last at St Mary's Hall, Walton near Felixstowe.
tu 2 Dec 2014
Saturday we went to Halesworth to see Daddy Christmas arrive but had time to visit Hippy Jo in her shop of two years now. Daddy C arrived by the simple process of walking out of the library and then processing along the Thoroughfare led by the very excellent Southwold and Reydon Drum Corp which as well as festive lighting had some real tinys. Before all that there was a great moment when the two mascots spotted each other and embraced.
Today is the last day of the Halesworth scarecrow hunt.
fr 24 Oct 2014
♫ Despite the arts festival adding two front rows at the Halesworth Cut last night for Georgie Fame and sons it was still SOLD OUT . The festival continues tomorrow with drama A Day's Work and ends Sunday with the Syd Lawrence Orchestra.
tu 9 Sep 2014
A generator and power tools stolen from a Halesworth building site last week and an unemployed man has been charged for two burglaries in Melton Sunday night.
su 17 Aug 2014
This year's HalesworthArts Festival includes rock's smoothest Hammond botherer Georgie Fame now with sons, the actor Simon Callow plus the affectionate two handed homage Eric and Little Ern. The festival's sponsorship makes the next available advertising slot now 3rd September ... did we say that we had nearly 20,000 visitors in January?
tu 17 Jun 2014
Halesworth early last week and telephone fraudsters bold enough to call on a house to collect bank and credit cards.
sa 14 Jun 2014
♫ Tonight at the Halesworth Cut the musical play Hey Jig-A-Jig celebrating Will Kemp's long distance dancing feat in 1600 ... and again in Halesworth today you can get your catalytic converter marked at the cop shop. More Hey Jig-A-Jig next weekend in Lowestoft and Hoxne.
tu 22 Apr 2014
Actress Juliet Stephenson in 2012 and Halesworth added to peeps in Suffolk.
tu 15 Apr 2014
It has to be said that in the Halesworth Cut Friday night the Hackney Colliery Band were LOUD but at least half of the full house had seen them at last year's High Tide
festival so knew what they were getting and had come back for more. Hard to categorise the band, they are thunderously driving, band leader Steve Pretty hot on the witty verbals and stage business, and snare drummer Luke Christie's expressive enthusiasm endearing and visually rewarding. Last day of the festival this Saturday.
we 9 Apr 2014
When we posted this pic of Juliet Stevenson at the 2012 High Tide festival in Halesworth on our Facebook page an Italian fan commented thought she was murdered in a Miss Marple. This year's festival starts tomorrow and runs until Saturday 19th and we particularly fancy the Hackney Colliery Band this Friday and the conversation with actor Michael Gambon on the 19th.
There's an area bounded by Wickham Market, Debenham and Halesworth known near the coast as the Wickden Triangle within which either something in the water or incipient dementia prompts bizarre council behaviour such as this sign in the Stackton Tressel Crack Street car park.
fr 7 Feb 2014
The Tessa Fucha Chamber Series of Sunday afternoon concerts start this Sunday at the Halesworth Cut with Philip Higham cello and Carole Presland piano. Philip Higham has been described in the press as having all the qualities of a world class artist.
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A Grand Bazaar at the Halesworth Cut all this weekend and the Framlingham St John 
The first of the Halesworth Arts Festival's occasional Sunday concerts is next Sunday. The comparatively youthful (they were formed in 2014) Fitzroy Quartet will give a programme of Haydn, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. ♫
Halesworth Area Community Transport have received funding from the Department of Transport for a 16 seat coach with disabled access. It will be available for hire to schools and community groups and can be driven on an ordinary Group B car license.
We saw the Common Ground Theatre Company 
The Tessa Fucha Chamber Series of Sunday afternoon concerts start this Sunday at the Halesworth Cut with Philip Higham cello and Carole Presland piano. Philip Higham has been described in the press as having all the qualities of a world class artist.