wall2wall 2024 Community Afternoon

Our programme includes:

• Roving street music
• Hosted indoor music
• Community Afternoon stage
• Activities for the young

Please see below for more information.

Roving Street Music

A large Samba band is scheduled to start at the junction of Frogmore Street and Baker Street at 1.30pm and make its way over the next two hours towards Cross Street (where the Angel Hotel is) – with a number of diversions and stops on the way.

Coming in the opposite direction will be our New Orleans strollers, leaving the Angel Hotel at about 2pm and also making at a number of stops on the way, before arriving at where the Samba band started at about 4pm.

Do come and enjoy it – whatever the weather – it will be fun.

Hosted Indoor Music

We have arranged a number of indoor events, hosted by popular venues and featuring some of the best jazz musicians from across South Wales.

You might like to follow the ‘Piano Lounge Trail:

• 12pm to 1pm - Portico Lounge - Ross Hicks-keys / Debs Hancock-vocals
• 12pm to 1pm - Bean and Bread - Newman Tia-keys / John Close-guitar
• 12.30pm to 1.30pm - Chesters Wine - Eddie Gripper-keys / Glyn Lewis-sax
• 2pm to 3pm - Portico Lounge - Ross Hicks-keys / John Close-guitar
• 2pm to 3pm - Bean and Bread Newman Tia-keys / Glyn Lewis-sax
• 2.30pm to 3.30pm - Chesters Wine - Eddie Gripper-keys / Debs Hancock-vocals

Also watch out for more music outside the Kings Head and other great sounds dotted around.

Community Afternoon Stage

This will be in Amos Restaurant (opposite Tesco) and the exciting programme there includes:

• 12pm to 1pm - BMJazz Katz – another performance by our youth jazz band
• 1.30pm to 2.30pm - Ian Cooper’s Uskulele Orchestra – A true family event - look forward to a bucket-load of infectious enthusiasm
• 3pm to 4pm - Synergy – the multi award winning A-Cappella chorus based in Abergavenny

Drop in and enjoy some of the best of local group music.

Activities for the Young

Hosted by Little Green Refills, this is for the 10-year-olds and under and it is art-based. Drawing material will be available to produce their own drawings, with plenty of pictures etc that will hopefully generate creative ideas.

We hope to assemble enough material to, post festival, use as the basis of a number of new pop-ups – which will be a feature of future club and festival performances.

Whilst your youngsters explore jazz and art – enjoy a relaxed cuppa.