Wintershall Charity Rock Concert
Slades Farm, Thornecombe Street, Bramley, Surrey  GU5 0LT  UK
Saturday from 3:30pm to midnight

The beautiful venue of Wintershall hosts another amazing charity rock concert featuring some names you are bound to recognise including, Roger Taylor, Jeff Beck, Mike + The Mechanics, Kenney Jones, Procol Harum, The Darkness, Steve Harley, Spike Edney + SAS Band and The FABBAGIRLS. This is a Black-tie event, tickets cost £100 for under 25’s and NHS staff or £150 for everyone else and must be booked before Saturday.

The Supercar Event
Dunsfold Park, GU6 8HY
Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 4:30pm

It’s not everyday that you get the opportunity to experience the sheer power and speed of a supercar racing around a race course. This two day event includes plenty to do for all the family, including supercar passenger rides around the famous Top Gear race track from £30. All proceeds will go directly to The Children’s Trust, the UK’s leading charity for children with brain injuries. Click here for entry tickets and event pricing info.

Kickback Comedy 
The Boileroom, Guildford
Saturday 7pm

Guildford’s infrequent but always hilarious comedy night is back again, the evening includes Garrett Millerick, Tom Goodliffe a mystery performer and Kickback’s resident MC, the hilariously unforgettable Debra-Jane Appelby (“…magical spontaneous quality…” Comedy Channel 4). An 18+ event – tickets cost £12.50

The Comedy of Errors
Guildford Castle
Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm

With its crazy characters, bonkers mayhem and wonderful physical set-pieces, The Comedy of Errors is a brilliantly fun introduction to Shakespeare for children and a fabulous evening’s entertainment for adults!

The performance will take audiences from an austere gallows setting at Guildford’s ancient Castle Keep to the vibrant chaos of the Ephesus market place, staged around the Victorian bandstand.

Tickets from £16.50.

Guildford Festival Craft Market
Guildford High Street
Saturday from 10am to 5.30pm

The last of the nine day festival of craftswork from all over the UK including artists, jewellers, ceramicists, line, skin care and much more – there will also be street performers on Saturday.

The Sausage Monkeys
Kokomo
Saturday from 8:30pm to 11:30pm

They’re back again with rocking live music, performing covers from as early as the 60’s to the latest contemporary hits – so sit back and listen or get up on your feet and rock the night away.

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Guildford Beer Festival
Guildford Cricket Club
Friday 6pm to 10pm and Saturday 12pm to 4pm and 6pm to 10pm

This year’s Guildford Beer Festival will feature around 80 different cask ales, sourced from independent and micro breweries in Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex and Berkshire. There will also be a wide selection of ciders, and a separate bar with wines and soft drinks.

Music throughout the day from Tom Worrall, The Charley Farley Sunday Four, Johnson Jay and The Resistance.

£10 per session. Register at https://guildfordbeerfestival.co.uk/tickets/  Includes free entry to the after-party at The Boileroom.

Surrey Hills Ukulele Big Band & The Dirty Carols
The Boileroom
Saturday 8pm

The annual Guildford Beer Festival Afterparty

The Surrey Hills Ukulele Big Band (SHUBB) has been performing around Surrey, Hants and Sussex for the last three years. The emphasis is on the ukulele, but the band also features mandolin, fiddle, bass guitar, harmonica and a wide range of percussion. With music drawn from a multitude of sources and countries

The Dirty Carols are a group of Guildford girls who sing alternative lyrics to songs famous and not-so-famous. We’re rude, funny and sing quite nicely too

Tickets £5, free entry with Guildford Beer Festival Wristband

Summer Fair
Guildford Cathedral
Saturday 11am to 4pm

The fair is a combination of a market full of various stalls and a family fun day with workshops and crafting sessions.

The Emergency Poet, Deborah Alma, will also be attending with her vintage ambulance offering consultations and prescribing poems as cures.

Free entry

Cinema Guildford Film Night: Birdman
The Guildford Institute, Ward Street
Friday 7.30pm

For the final night of their first season Cinema Guildford are showing 2015 Best Picture Oscar winner Birdman, the  story of a former cinema superhero who’s mounting an ambitious Broadway production.

Entry £5 to £6.50

The Dire Straits Experience
G Live
Friday 8pm

Featuring former Dire Straits members Chris White (on saxophone) and Chris Whitten (on drums) complimenting a brilliant band and an amazing show!

Re-creating the Hits including: Sultan of Swing, Brother In Arms, Money For Nothing, Walk of Life, Tunnel of Love, Romeo and Juliet, So Far Away to mention but a few.

Tickets: £24

White Feather Boxer
Yvonne Arnaud Mill Studio
Friday and Saturday 8pm

April 1967: the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Muhammad Ali, defies the US Military by refusing to fight in Vietnam. Meanwhile in a shabby Bethnal Green flat, an elderly boxing trainer hears the news and recalls his own dilemmas of WW1, when Conscription in 1916 sent pacifists to prison or the firing squad; when he, at the peak of his boxing career and physical prowess, made a choice.

Can Jimmy still be a contender and fight his demons from the past and meanwhile – has he the strength or even the patience to tame a wild young demon from the present?

A new play by Siobhan Nicholas performed by Chris Barnes and Polly Jordan.

Tickets: £15

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Always the Sun Music & Arts Festival is being organised by The Boileroom and is named after the song by Guildford’s own The Stranglers. It promises to have plenty of big names and ways to get creative over the two day celebration of music and art.

Along with the above, The Stranglers’ own former vocalist Hugh Cornwell, Dub Pistols and The Allergies will also be performing along with many others on the main stage; the DIY Stage will be curated with even more musical acts to guarantee that you have something great to listen to – whether it’s music that’s totally new to you or the songs that you know word for word.

If you feel like a change from all the music, then there’s several other areas of the festival that you can visit, including All the World’s a Stage, featuring a variety of performances in comedy, street dance, theatre and more to keep you entertained.

The Outdoor Kitchen will gather several chefs such as The Great British Bake Off contestant Stu Henshall to judge the festivals own bake off; Masterchef finalist and restaurant owner Dan Britton will be showing you how to make delicious meals from the food that people often waste.

The Crafty Peacock will be the hub of all things craft, several workshops will be in place to get you stuck into yarnboming, ceramics, jewellery, painting – perfect for children and adults alike!

The Imaginarium is the place to be if you want to experience the joy of play and interaction, mad science experiments, amazing demonstrations of skill and sensory workshops to really engage your mind.

With a festival like this, it’s clear that September is a month to really look forward to – let’s hope that it catches the last of the summer sun, so that we can truly enjoy Always the Sun.

The festival will be held on September 10-11. Click here for more info and tickets.

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In addition to the displays, many stalls selling the finest Artisan crafts and food, as well as local produce were in abundance at the show.

The event was also filled with entertainment, including James Dylan’s Stunt World, an exciting motocross show, the Pilgrim Morris Men performing traditional dancing, and competitions for the best livestock and farming produce.

This year was the 62nd event, which is famed for hosting the country’s best traders and farmers, who have an opportunity to show off all their hard work from the year.

The show is run by the ‘Surrey County Agricultural Society’ and with support from the farming community and the people of Surrey found success in bringing people together and promoting the huge amount of talent and skill possessed by local farmers.

Despite the traditional element the event was kept fresh with the introduction of new companies and motorsports, creating a perfect balance of new and old and creating a perfect celebration of what Surrey has to offer.

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Clybourne Park
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
Millbrook, Guildford, Surrey GU1 3UX
Thursday at 7.30pm, Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 2.30pm and 8pm

This razor-sharp satire lifts the lid on race and real estate in a fictional Chicago neighborhood. The swinging sixties are just around the corner as a black family move into a suburban white enclave, triggering all too predictable mutterings from the neighbours. Fifty years on, we return to the same house in 2009 as gentrification sets in and the roles are reversed.

Acclaimed by critics and audiences alike since its debut on Broadway in 2009, Clybourne Park has been awarded Best Play at the Olivier Awards, the Evening Standard Best Play Award, the South Bank Sky Arts Theatre Award and Critics’ Circle Best Play Award.

Tickets cost £21 to £32.50 plus booking fees. Contains very strong language, recommended for ages 16+.

Clare Teal: The Divas and Me 
Denbies Wine Estate,  London Rd, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6AA
Thursday 5 May 2016 from 8pm till 10.15pm

One of Britain’s leading female jazz singers, Clare Teal will perform with her Trio fabulous jazz standards inspired by the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day and Peggy Lee as well as some contemporary covers and new material. As her huge fan base knows, Clare brings an engaging sense of humour to her live performances, which creates a wonderful atmosphere with her audiences.

Tickets cost: adults £25, senior citizens £25, students £5, children from 7-21 years £5

Dmitry Sitkovetsky plays Bach
Holy Trinity, High Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3RR
Friday 6 May 2016 from 7.30pm till 9.30pm

The acclaimed violinist, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, presents a glorious night of Bach for string trio. Dmitry is a world-renowned conductor and former soloist of the Berlin Phil and of many other leading orchestras. Kristina Blaumane, Principal Cellist of the LPO, and eminent Russian viola player Alexander Zemtsov, complete the distinguished trio that will perform Dmitry’s critically acclaimed arrangements of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Fifteen Sinfonias.  This will be a performance of the highest order.

Tickets cost: adults £25, senior citizens £25, students £5, children from 7-21 years £5. Limited free street parking is available after 6pm on the High Street.

Big Girls Don’t Cry
G Live, London Rd, Guildford GU1 2AA
Friday at 6.30pm

During the 60s and 70s No1 hits Sherry, December 1963 (Oh What a Night), Walk Like a Man, Rag Doll and Big Girls Don’t Cry saw the Four Seasons and lead singer Frankie Valli propelled to super stardom.

Big Girls Don’t Cry authentically revives the sublime harmonies of New Jersey’s finest. It showcases Frankie’s incredible falsettos, and features solo hits that range from the exuberant – the rock’n’roll nostalgia of Grease,  to the spine-tingling show-stealers such as My Eyes Adored You.

Drawing from a repertoire that includes Let’s Hang On, Working My Way Back to You, Beggin’, Who Loves You and I’ve Got You Under My Skin you’re never more than a song away from another classic hit.  Don’t miss this critically-acclaimed spectacle.

Standard tickets cost £23 plus booking fees.

Nicola Benedetti and the London Mozart Players
St Teresa’s School, Beech Ave, Effingham, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6ST
Saturday 7 May 2016 from 7.30pm till 9.30pm

Superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti performs with the London Mozart Players under the baton of international guest conductor and viola player Maxim Rysanov.

The programme for this unmissable concert is Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, Dobrinka Tabakova’s Suite in Old Style and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C major.

Tickets cost: adults £29, senior citizens £29, students £5, children aged 7-21 years £5. There will be free parking on site.

Trinity Folk Festival
St Mary’s Church, Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3UA
The Star Inn, 2 Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3TY
Saturday 7 May 2016 from 1pm at St Mary’s Church and from 9pm at The Star Inn, ends at 11pm.

Trinity Folk Festival presents the best in folk, roots and acoustic music.  In 2016 they have persuaded some of their favourite acts to return, including: The Luke Jackson Trio, Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar, The Sam Kelly Trio, Ninebarrow, Talisk, Long Lankin, Mad Magdalen, Andy Butler and Rising stars from Guildford’s Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM)

The Boileroom will also be joining the festival with a Friday night gig featuring the Scottish Folk musician James Yorkston and more.

The nearest car park to the Church and The Star is Millbrook open air car park or Bedford Road Multi Storey – there is some free parking on the street after 6pm.

Ticket prices for the day are listed below.

Main Festival at St Mary’s
Adults £18, concessions £11, under 10s free, family (2+2) £50.

​Late night at the Star Inn
Adults £6, concessions £4

St Mary’s + Star Inn
Adults £22, concessions £14

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
G Live, London Rd, Guildford GU1 2AA
Saturday 7.30pm

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra brings our 2015/16 season to a rousing conclusion with Tchaikovsky’s epic Symphony No. 5, a piece with a hauntingly slow movement and elemental finale. Conducted by Fabien Gabel, the concert will begin with Borodin’s richly colourful Prince Igor Overture and then the supremely talented Alexandra Dariescu will perform Rachmaninov’s virtuosic Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Tickets Cost £23 to £39.50, children and students £10 plus booking fees.

Mitch Benn
G Live, London Rd, Guildford GU1 2AA
Saturday at 8pm

“I’m a skeptic. But don’t take my word for it. Or indeed anybody’s. For anything….” this is the basic premise of Mitch’s new critically acclaimed show.  It’s a show that will make you laugh a lot and even think a bit as well as Mitch debunks myths, exposes nonsense and grapples with the very nature of knowledge itself extolling the virtues of an evidence-based approach to life… with amusing consequences and of course a few songs along the way.

The ‘Now Show’ aside, Mitch has recently co-presented with Harry Shearer BBC Radio 2’s Anatomy Of A Guitar as well as performing Mitch Benn Is The 37th Beatle and presenting Spank The Plank both for BBC Radio 4, with further work commissioned by BBC Radio 4.

Tickets cost £13 to £15 plus booking fees.

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On Wednesday April 6 at 7pm, the housing development that has residents divided will be discussed and will see members of the public argue for or against the controversial planning application.

Residents that have previously responded to the application will have received a letter or email inviting them to register to speak. There will be a maximum of four people permitted to speak in favour and four against.

You can register to speak at the meeting, though applications will be taken on a strictly ‘first come first served’ basis, the deadline to do so by is Tuesday April 5. For more information about the meeting, contact Sophie Butcher, Committee Manager by calling 01483 444056 or by email at [email protected].

You can officially comment and object or approve of the Wisley Airfield planning application 15/P/00012 by clicking here.

Seating capacity in the council chamber is limited, but the meeting will also be live streamed online, click here to visit the website.

Find out more about the the Wisley Airfield housing development by clicking here.

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This sizzling free, three-day festival will be held in the Jubilee square, Market Walk, Mercia Walk, Commerical Way, Gloucester Walk and the canal area side of town.

This years festival is set to be even bigger than previous years with over 70 stalls, so there is certainly plenty on offer to keep you and the family entertained.

Just a few of the activities to be enjoyed this year, include: BBQ demonstrations, hands-on cookery workshops for children, celebrity cookbook signings, live entertainment and much, much more.

On the menu at this year’s festival, will be a superb selection of prestigious TV and local chefs who will serve up a healthy portion of tasty, live cooking demonstrations in the Tante Marie Culinary academy theatre in Jubilee square.

Market Walk itself is home to a range of permanent and pop-up food and drink traders who all share a passion for good food.

To celebrate Woking Food and Drink Festival and all things food related, the market’s independent traders will be embracing the festival spirit by giving out free samples and showcasing individual limited edition festival specials and offers.

Included in this year’s timetable, will be Kid’s Food Laboratory workshops, where children can experiment with food and combine simple ingredients to create spectacular results.

The workshops will be run by an experienced chef and children’s cookery workshop leader, and a team of friendly helpers.

The festival will be open between 9:30am and 4:30pm Friday- Saturday and 10am-5pm on Sunday.

So what’s stopping you? This is set to be a fantastic, fun-filled weekend to be enjoyed by all the family, so head on down and get stuck in.

Find more information at: www.wokingfoodanddrinkfestival.co.uk

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With such a huge variety of activities on 0ffer, the event is catered to suit everyone, regardless of your age and interests.

Visitors are treated to five hour air displays which have previously included favourites: The red arrows, BBMF, The Blades, Team Breitling Wingwalkers and the Avro Vulcan.

There is seating provided however, it would be advisable to bring a picnic rug on the day just so as to be extra prepared.

However, if planes aren’t really your scene, the military zone and parade certainly add some classic nostalgia, as the regal military vehicles complete a cavalcade for spectators before taking their place in the zone’s living history and reenactment displays, including live battles.

There is also a public arena, bursting with a huge variety of interactive attractions containing all you need for a great family day out.

The show arena also boasts laser quest, paintballing, kit-plane demonstrations, aviation and motoring simulators, military outlets and displays, static aircraft, fairground, emergency services demonstration and over 80 retail outlets selling a wide variety of products and gifts.

There is no doubt that all this excitement will work up your appetite, so why not choose between the 25 fixed-price catering outlets?

You are also welcome to bring a picnic if you would prefer.

As the last plane touches down, the party starts across the arena with a mix of musical evening entertainment. From Jazz to Rock n’ Roll, you’re guaranteed to come across something you love.

So why not go along and check it out? The event will take place on Saturday August 29 and Sunday August 30 from 9am – 7pm.

Adult tickets start at £22, while child tickets cost £7. If you are planning to take the family along, family tickets start at £50 (2 adults and 3 children aged 5-15)

Find more information at: http://www.visitsurrey.com

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