Nantwich Jazz, Blues and Music Festival is set to be a star-studded event with a record number of performers lined-up to entertain this Easter.
Festival programmes are now available online and at local outlets listing all the famous names whose stage skills will turn Nantwich into a mecca for music-lovers over Bank Holiday weekend, March 29 to April 2.
Nantwich Museum wants the town’s residents to help put together a new exhibition on “Welsh Row through the Ages”.
It’s hoped the display will be mounted at the Pillory Street venue in the summer.
Talented students from Cheshire College – South & West will light up the stage this week in Dance 2018 – The Evolution.
The show at the college’s Crewe campus will include all styles of dance and demonstrate how dance and society has evolved over the decades.
By Jonathan White
Thousands of people gathered to enjoy the 44th annual Battle of Nantwich & Winter Fayre in and around Nantwich and Mill Island.
The event, organised by the Holly Holy Day Society, saw hundreds of Sealed Knot troops re-enact the infamous battle of 1644.
Crewe & Nantwich MP Laura Smith is to stage more local surgeries in February and March.
Some will be drop-in surgeries, but more appointment-based surgeries have been organised to cope with demand, her office has said.
Organisers of the annual Battle of Nantwich “Holly Holy Day” are laying on another feast of entertainment as the town again commemorates the infamous English Civil War clash in Cheshire.
Every year, the town has remembered what happened on January 25, 1644 when the Parliamentarians defeated the Royalists in a battle in the Henhull area to end the siege of the town.
By Jonathan White
A free family science show called ‘Chemistry with Cabbage’ takes place at Manchester Metropolitan University in Crewe.
In recent months, almost 1,000 children and parents/grandparents in Crewe have attended a ‘Chemistry with Cabbage’ show.
Events leading to the Battle of Nantwich in January 1644 are the subject of a new exhibition in the Your Space Gallery at Nantwich Museum.
The exhibition, called “The Siege & Battle of Nantwich”, will run from January 9 until February 24.
Reaseheath College in Nantwich is to stage a new event from Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life, “Pretty Muddy Kids”.
It will be the first time it has been staged and will run alongside the women only Pretty Muddy event.
Nantwich Museum has announced its exhibition programme for 2018.
It features a wide range of art and historical subjects, as well as exhibitions in its Millennium Gallery.
A Dementia Friendly Christmas Tea Dance helped raise hundreds of pounds for Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity at Leighton Hospital.
It was organised by Dementia Action Alliance at Beechmere in Crewe and refreshments were donated by Tesco Extra in Crewe.
By Jonathan White
More than 1,400 people enjoyed the annual Crib Services at St Mary’s Church in Nantwich.
This re-telling of the Christmas story was performed by a mixture of adults, young people and children at 2pm, 3.30pm and 5pm on Christmas Eve.
St Luke’s Hospice volunteers will be hitting the streets again in January – to collect your old Christmas trees.
The hospice team will be collecting trees on January 11, 12, 13 and 14 in return for a donation to the Hospice.
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