Culture

On Friday 5th April the Bridgwater and District Trades Union Council will be presenting a night of red hot 60’s ska music at Bridgwater’s Cobblestones Pub in Eastover. The gig features Glastonbury ska band the  SKA MECHANICS and will start at 8pm.. Besides the £5 entry, donations for MAP will be accepted on the night …

The People Mural Project will feature large portraits of local people who have helped others during the pandemic. The portraits will be pasted-up during the Quayside Festival on Saturday 10th July. The project aims to highlight people who would not normally be recognised. All nominations will be considered and we hope to represent a wide…

Bridgwater people are extremely proud of their history and for the past 4 years ‘Bridgwater History Day’ has been an important part of the towns heritage calendar playing to full houses at the Bridgwater Arts Centre. This year we’re not going to let a global pandemic stop the march of time and so we’re hosting…

Bridgwaters with and without the E Report by Cllr Brian Smedley Leader Bridgwater Town Council The rain started then stopped then started again. So, we gave up noticing. It was 2.30pm in the UK and 0930 across the Atlantic. Just over 100 socially distanced Black Lives Matters campaigners had gathered on the Brewery Field, Bridgwater…

Musicians, agents, venues, promoters and most of all the audience, are uniting in a campaign to prevent the collapse of the UK live music scene which they fear will be the case without government support. In Bridgwater, the town’s most popular indie venue, the Cobblestones Pub in Eastover, is at the forefront of a campaign …