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THE organisers of Towersey Village Festival have challenged festival goers to do the maths before deciding which festivals to go to this summer, claiming a cost of only

THE first monthly Thame blues club, featuring the King Earl Boogie Band and local band, Swamplands, was an outstanding success with almost 100 people attending the event and having a great time!

“Why go all the way up to London to see a professional band like this – when we’re bringing them to Thame?” Said co-promotor, Michele Pethers.

So, its the third Thursday of every month at The Stables, behind The James Figg in Cornmarket, Thame. For more details on these events, visit: www.dogfoxpromotions.co.uk
Tickets for the next event will be available from either The Thatch or James Figg Pub shortly. Tickets in advance are

30th April – Beetle Drive, at Tetsworth Memorial Hall
14th May – Quiz Night, at Tetsworth Memorial Hall
11th June – Quiz Night, at Tetsworth Memorial Hall
19th June – Fun Day, at Tetsworth Memorial Hall
17th July – Beer Festival
11th Sep – Flower Show, at Tetsworth Memorial Hall
9th Oct – Jumble sale, at Tetsworth Memorial Hall
15th Oct – Quiz Night, at Tetsworth Memorial Hall
26th Nov – Quiz Night, at Tetsworth Memorial Hall
4th Dec – Craft Fayre, at Tetsworth Memorial Hall

A NEW Blues music club will launch on Thursday, April 15, featuring some great “blast from the past” professional musicians, at The Stables, behind The James Figg pub in Cornmarket, Thame.

The monthly club will see top blues bands promoted by www.dogfoxpromotions.co.uk

Headlining the first club night will be the King Earl Boogie Band www.kebb.co.uk
with some top musicians featuring Colin Earl, piano player with Mungo Jerry/Foghat, John Coghlan on drums (original status quo)and Ian Campbell of the Nashville Teens/Thin Lizzy. The legendary Dave Peabody will provide lead vocals and Guitar.

There will be a brilliant local blues band opening the event.

The Blues Club organisers are getting in a top PA system and staging/lights etc, so no expenses is being spared to make this a professional night.

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING – at Thame Town Hall 7.30pm – Public meeting.
To be chaired by the Town Mayor, Cllr Jeannette Matelot Green; Representatives from the Town, District and County Councils will hear your views and answer your questions.

LOCAL acoustic rock band, Full Circle, release their debut single this week in a bid to help turn around the life of a little girl seriously ill with neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer.

Recorded at Thame?s BlackFrog Studios, the Thame and Abingdon based band hope that the donation of all the profits from their single, Driving Away (a song for Stella, will help to pay for pioneering antibody therapy not currently available in the UK.

The 2Simple Trust, a charity that helps children with neuroblastoma, loaned the family of 2 year-old Stella Rogers the deposit for the

EASTER Farmers’ Market – Great Haseley village hall – 10am – 12pm – including painted eggs for sale and a raffle.
Great Haseley Farmers’ Market is held every second Sunday in the month.

A SERIOUS MAN – USA 2009 105 minutes; 15 certificate
Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick.

THE Coen brothers make films that are ostensibly so different to each other – westerns, film noir, slapstick comedies – but that all share a dark fascination with the nihilism and absurdity the human condition. Their latest is arguably their most potent analysis of this predicament to date. A sometimes savage satire on the Jewish communities of the Coen brothers’ own upbringing, A Serious Man is a sublimely funny but very serious film about a bleak subject.

Stuhlbarg is Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor of theoretical physics whose life is unravelling. His wife announces that their marriage is over and she wants a divorce. His increasingly unstable brother is camped on his sofa endlessly scribbling his own arcane mathematical thesis and dealing with some sort of unspeakable cyst. On the verge of securing long awaited academic tenure, anonymous letters are reaching his superiors on campus, slandering his professional practice. As life spirals further away from his grasp, Larry experiences an epiphany, a realisation that he needs to urgently reconnect with his faith and to re-ground himself in enduring truths.

But in seeking consolation in the wisdom of the rabbis, he gets little other than vacuous and facile platitude.

A Serious Man is about existential crisis, about coming to the realisation that we are each utterly alone and that control of one’s life is an arrogant fantasy. But hey, don’t let a little thing like that put you off. It is also hypnotic and mesmerising, visually sumptuous, periodically hilarious, strangely profound and quite unlike any other film you are likely to see for a while.

This Friday 9th April – Doors open 7.30pm Film 8pm. Admission

LOVERS of Choral music have been tuning in to the new series on BBC TV series about Sacred music, presented by Simon Russell Beale.

Coincidentally, Thame Choral Society’s concert on May 8, 2010, will include works by the two French composers featured together in one of the programmes.

Gloria, by Francis Poulenc, will be teamed with the much loved Requiem by Gabriel Faure, at St Mary’s Church, Thame, starting at 7.45pm.

These two contrasting works will be conducted by Colin Spinks, Thame Choral Society’s Musical Director, and the soloists will be Helen Semple, Soprano, Nick Gee, Baritone and Richard Carr will accompany on the organ.

Tickets are

THIS week brings the Spring Term shows for Thame Youth Theatre. Packed with energy, colourful costumes, a mixture of serious and comical and a variety of dance and theatre, the week promises to be highly entertaining.

Thame Youth Theatre re-introduced dance this term, so the new dance group performed alongside the Juniors? drama group last night, March 30, who were performing Hamlet.

The Middies Drama Group will be performing A Day in the Life of a SuperHero (created by themselves) tonight, Wednesday, March 31, and the Seniors Drama Group will be performing Coram Boy (by arrangement with Nick Hern books) on Friday, April 2.

Both shows begin at 7:30pm and are taking place in the Phoenix Performing Arts Studio at Lord Williams?s Lower School, Towersey Road.

Tickets are