An update from St Mary's
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An update from the teams at St Mary's Church,
Ross-on-Wye
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| | Coffee & Sgwrs @ St Mary's |
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Saturdays 2nd May & 6th June - 10.30am - Noon |
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Our regular coffee session with excellent homemade cake. As usual there is an opportunity to join Welsh speaking tables for a good old natter. You can do that in English too, of course!
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| | Concert: First Wednesday @ 1pm |
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Wednesdays 6th May & 3rd June - 1.00pm |
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We have another great selection of performers lined up for our third season of FREE lunchtime concerts. |
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| | St Mary's Youth Choir & Connect Club |
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Wednesdays, 3.30 - 5.30pm during term time |
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We've changed the way St Mary's Youth Choir operates. Rehearsals are now immediately after school on Wednesdays, during term time. The Connect Club is open to any young person in KS2, 3 or 4. Just arrive from school when you can. You do not have to sing in the choir. The choir rehearsal starts in church at 4.30pm. Do you know a child who would benefit from this valuable opportunity? Just bring them along on a Wednesday after school. |
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| | Wednesdays 6th May and 10th June, 3.30 - 4.30pm |
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A new after school drop-in club for all young people. We have masses of LEGO (thanks to all the kind donors). A FREE session, just come along and be creative, refreshments available, no pressure. Families very welcome. |
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| | Herefordshire Histories Festival - across Herefordshire |
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Saturday 9th - Monday 25th May |
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This is now in its second year with around 100 events taking place across Herefordshire through most of May (Saturday 9th to Monday 25th). More on some of the Ross based ones below. |
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| | Sunday 10th May at 3.00pm - St Mary's |
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The Ross Choristers, with their usual line up of soloists and light hearted music are back for their spring concert. Tickets are £12 on the door. Once again, The Ross Choristers are supporting The Ross Spire in Peril appeal with this concert. |
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| | Talk: Strange Lives of Medieval Saints |
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The accounts of saints’ lives written in the Middle Ages might be seen as early biographies, but they are very different from modern biographies. Some contain many strange tales, others repeat stories from earlier saints’ lives. What do we make of them today? Join us for this talk by historian, and our friend, Dr Janet Cooper. |
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| | Ross Choral Society Concert |
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Under the direction of Stephen Power, the choir will present a programme featuring Carmina Burana by Carl Orff followed by some favourite Madrigals.
This exhilarating work with its bold rhythms, sweeping melodies and the iconic ‘O Fortuna’ is thrilling to listen to and even more thrilling to sing. |
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| | Ross Heritage Walk - various subjects |
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Wednesday 20th May, 10.30am, meet at the Market House |
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The Ross Heritage Walks are back for another season. There's one on the third Wednesday of the month from May to September.
In May, local historian, Heather Hurley, will lead a short work around sites of Almshouses, past and present. On 17th June James Wallace Richard Hall will be the subject. There's no charge, just come along to the Market House at 10.30am
Why not stay on for the free lunchtime talk in St Mary's Church at 1.00pm. You could grab your lunch from one of the excellent High Street outlets and go up and eat in in church or in the churchyard. Details immediately below. |
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| | Talk: Conversations Over Lunch - FREE lunchtime talks |
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Wednesday 20th May & 17th June - 1.00pm |
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Our summer series of FREE lunchtime talks begins today. As before, all are welcome. Bring your lunch if you wish, these are informal events. There will be a rearing collection if you'd like to reward our performers, and us! |
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| | Thursday 21st May, 7.00pm - St Mary's |
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Matthew Hall is a Bafta-winning screenwriter and novelist who lives on the England/Wales border. He practised as a barrister before becoming a full-time writer. His TV series Wing and a Prayer was nominated for a Bafta and he won a Bafta Cymru for Keeping Faith. His debut novel The Coroner was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger in 2009, as was his fourth novel The Flight in 2012. These Jenny Cooper novels have been adapted for Television. He has strong family connections to Canada, which he has regularly visited since 1983. |
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| | Town History Treasure Hunt |
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Saturday 23rd May, 10.00am - 4.00pm |
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Why not spend a bit of time challenging your brain and learning a little about the history of the town, with a hint of a competition for good measure. The trail is best started at St Mary's Church, where you can collect a form. You'll need your phone and the Museum Without Walls app installed. There are prizes! |
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| | Social event: Pentecost Picnic - St Mary's Churchyard |
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Sunday 24th May, Noon - 2pm |
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This is a free event. Bring along your own picnic. |
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| | Book Talk: Matt Majendie - St Mary's |
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Thursday 11th June, 7.00pm |
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Get the inside track on Red Bull Racing’s dramatic 2025 Formula 1 season with journalist and F1 expert Matt Majendie. Join Matt at glamourous races.
Matt Majendie is a sports journalist, author and podcast host. He spent the 2025 F1 season embedded in the Red Bull team gaining unprecedented access. Author of Nazaré, (shortlisted in the 2024 Sports Book Awards and Longlisted for the 2023 William Hill Sports Book of the Year) Matt is also the ghost writer of Sir Chris Hoy’s book, All That Matters.
A joint event for Rossiter Books and The Friends of St Mary’s Ross on Wye. |
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| | Concert: Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque - St Mary's |
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World-renowned period violinist, Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque take the resurgence of the Arts in England post-1660 as the inspiration for The Muses Restor’d. Their violin-led chamber music programme from Jacobean to Early Georgian England.
“The British goddess of the gut-stringed violin … Podger and her Brecon colleagues radiate infectious delight in the music they perform” (The Times) |
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| | Concert: Ross Penyard Singers - Shakespeare in Song - St Mary's |
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Saturday 20th June, 7.00pm |
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Featuring music from West Side Story and other Shakespeare works set to music |
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| | Come & Sing with Ross Choral Society - St Mary's |
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Saturday 27th June, from 10.00am |
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Join Matthew Coleridge for a special one‑day workshop exploring his much‑loved Requiem, a rare opportunity to work directly with the composer and bring his music to life under his guidance.
Registration 10 - 10.30am Informal performance 4 - 4.30pm |
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| | The Anglican churches in the parishes of Ross, Walford & Brampton Abbotts |
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Supporting and developing the fabric of St Mary's and building partnerships. |
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