Entertainment

Stage Reviews RedTIE’s new production, Mother Courage and her Children, by Brecht, features three talented students, who are studying at universities on the mainland.

Music AN evening of top-class music at the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes was provided by musicians from the town’s Holy Trinity Church.

Music AFTER a five-year break, Island band Taboo play their comeback gig at this weekend’s annual Cowes Pram Push.

Music A DOZEN cellos will be playing an eclectic mix of music in Niton on Sun-day, starting at 6.30pm.

Music IN PEASCOD Time is the title of Passamezzo’s concert at Wolverton Manor next Friday, September 3.

MUSICA BUSY concert season for Medina High Community Choir culminated in a highly successful week-long tour of Brittany in France at the beginning of this month.

MUSICISLAND rock band BlackHawk have just returned from a mini tour of Lincolnshire, where they wowed audiences at four venues in two weeks.

MUSICHAWKWIND have released a limited number of tickets especially for Islanders for their 40th anniversary festival next weekend, August 27 to 29.

MUSICSONGS written in a Munich bar six years ago have been released in an album by a much-travelled Ryde musician.

MUSICSOME of the famous acts who appeared at the 1970 IW Pop Festival are re-uniting in America to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the world-famous event.

A MODERN-DAY comedy adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth had the audience in stitches.

MUSICISLAND act The Shutes have landed a deal with Sony/ATV.

MUSICTHE globally renowned Trinity Junior Symphony Orchestra, from the Trinity College of Music, Greenwich, is coming to the Island.

MUSICA CHARITY gig is taking place tonight (Friday) in aid of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice and Endometriosis UK.

MUSICNEWPORT-BORN singer and songwriter Les Payne, who has been so near to pop stardom over the past 50 years, is making a rare return to the Island this weekend to enjoy birthday celebrations with his family and to undertake a Saturday gig tomorrow night (Saturday) at Caulkheads, Sandown, hopefully, with a flying guitarist.