By Alex Appleby
Nantwich’s popular Words & Music Festival has been hailed as a major success by audience members and visiting artists, say the event’s organisers.
Now in its 17th year, the October event brought its customary mix of internationally known acts and emerging talent to town.
By Jonathan White
Nantwich independent music store Applestump Records has launched a new Youtube channel to help promote local artists.
The store, which sells new and second-hand vinyl records on Barker Street, is run by Steve Cook.
Eight artists from the Nantwich Life Drawing group in Nantwich Civic Hall are exhibiting in a show called ‘Bare Essentials’.
Members of the group are sharing four works each in a range of media and styles at the exhibition in Nantwich Library.
A recovering alcoholic in Nantwich has teamed up with a photographer to stage his first ever exhibition.
Tony, known as “Drink or Draw”, and Laura McCann also hope it will break some stereotypes around addiction.
Pieces of original art will be looking for new homes next month when the INSPIRE22 exhibition is staged in Bunbury.
More than 40 artists are planning to sell their work during the three-day floral, arts and crafts exhibition.
A Wistaston artist who donated a sculpture to her village has been named as the latest “Local Legend” winners by The Cat FM.
Sandie Wilson received her “Baked by Gill” Cat Cake and Local Legend certificate from presenter David Foulkes.
By Jonathan White
Four talented local artists played socially distanced solo sets to entertain Nantwich Christmas shoppers.
The event was set up by Nantwich Morrisons Community Champion Nikki Allen and local community radio station The Cat 107.9 FM.
Organisers of Nantwich’s annual Words and Music Festival have vowed to stage something a little differently this year.
The coronavirus pandemic means the usual week-long festival of packed live performances across dozens of venues in October cannot go ahead.
The Little Cheshire Gallery in Nantwich is to host an exhibition of local artists’ work for a week in December.
Visitors are welcome to the opening on Saturday December 7, with mulled wine and mince pies.
An Acton pupil has been crowned champion in a competition to find Cheshire’s best young artists.
Finn Gilding, of Acton Academy in Nantwich, was crowned overall primary school winner for his “Colourful Birds” watercolour piece.
A new art gallery is opening in Nantwich, aimed at supporting many Nantwich and north west based artists.
The Little Cheshire Gallery is opening its doors in a former hairdressers on the Cocoa Yard in the heart of the town.
By Jonathan White
Pebble artists in Nantwich and Crewe have been painting bees on rocks to pay tribute on the first anniversary of the Manchester Arena terror attack.
The worker bee is one of the best-known symbols of Manchester and came to symbolise Manchester’s resilience after the atrocity which killed 22 people a year ago.
Two budding young artists from Nantwich have moved a step closer to being crowned designers of Royal Mail’s 2017 Christmas stamps.
Ten-year-olds Ben Hastie, of Acton Primary, and Grace Rebecca Lewis were chosen from 22,287 entries submitted from across the North West region.
Recent Comments