Past Events

Some of the things we've been doing:

Counter's Creek

Saturday, June 28th, 7.30pm, The Venue, Ross-on-Wye, HR9 7AB
Tickets £12 through Arts Alive

Counter's Creek is an acoustic folk band based in London who make original music inspired by the folk music of the British Isles and beyond. Jigs, reels, grooves from Eastern Europe & West Africa, catchy melodies with closely interwoven harmonies allied to a real sense of swing and dance energy.

Whistle player Jonathan Taylor has worked in many different musical genres: best known as a jazz pianist who's played with artists such as Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley, Ruby Turner and various British jazz luminaries, he's also co-founder of Tango Siempre, appeared on Strictly Come Dancing and arranged music for Robert Wyatt.

Singer Ben Cox studied Jazz at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, has played at major Jazz festivals with The Ben Cox Band, is currently musical director of four choirs in London and is an accomplished whistle/flute/harmonium player.

Fiddler Tom Newell is known for his work with Effra who perform regularly at UK folk festivals as well as The Ceilidh Liberation Front, Alex Mendham & His Orchestra and pop acts including Muse, One Direction and Lana Del Rey. He also plays banjo and mandolin (not to mention charango and mouth harp).

Guitarist Moss Freed plays with jazz/folk group Flekd, the Spike Orchestra, has recorded for John Zorn’s Tzadik label and has recently completed a PhD at Hull University…

Four musicians from different backgrounds, united by a love of acoustic folk music, great tunes and earthy dance grooves.

The Carducci String Quartet

Sunday, June 22nd, 3pm, St Mary's Church, Ross-on-Wye HR9 5HN

in collaboration with Wye Valley Music tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wvm
Members of Wye Valley Music £17; non-members £20; under 25 £2; under 15 free.

Described by The Strad as presenting “a masterclass in unanimity of musical purpose, in which severity could melt seamlessly into charm, and drama into geniality”, the award- winning Carducci Quartet is internationally acclaimed as one of the most accomplished and versatile ensembles of today.

"a performance of supreme clarity, focus and precision" (Gramophone Magazine)

MATTHEW DENTON Violin
MICHELLE FLEMING Violin
EOIN SCHMIDT-MARTIN Viola
EMMA DENTON Cello

Schubert: String Quartet no.10 in Eb major
Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 8
Dvorak: String Quartet no.10 "American"
Hubert Parry: “Air from An English Suite"

The Moscow Drug Club

TRANSCENDENT TROUBADOURS OF WORLD JAZZ AND FOLK
A heady and waggish mix of Jazz French musette Latin grooves and new Orleans Swing

Imagine having a few to drink and staggering arm in arm into the darkness of an eastern European cobbled street and stumbling into a bar where Django Reinhardt and Tom Waits are having an after-hours jam with the local Tziganes.

Combining their original material with songs by the likes of Jaques Brel, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen & Eartha Kitt… Moscow Drug Club deliver an intoxicating and intimate musical experience. www.moscowdrugclub.com

createROSS moving on

January 2025
Construction on our five-year project, the Museum without Walls, is finally complete (though, of course, the Museum continues to delight and inform people in Ross); so now we have the time to work on other things. We've had one excellent open meeting, and we're always open to ideas that further our development as a creative hub for south Herefordshire. Contact [email protected]