THERE’S non-stop entertainment at Melksham Assembly Hall in the coming weeks.
On Friday 6th March, Buddy Holly & The Cricketers will get the Assembly Hall rockin’ and a rollin’.
Promoters say, “This breathtaking show has rock ’n’ rolled audiences across the globe from Cardiff to California, Barking to Bangkok and Swindon to Sweden and is guaranteed to have everyone singing along to the music and dancing in the aisles.
“It stars some of the finest actor-musicians in the UK whose combined West End credits include Buddy, Lennon, Forbidden Planet and Jailhouse Rock and was endorsed as Britain’s most popular Buddy Holly act when the boys guested on BBC One’s Saturday night live programme, ‘The One and Only’, hosted by Graham Norton.
“The show rarely pauses for breath and is, quite simply, the most compelling concert of its kind. The hits just keep on coming – ‘That’ll Be The Day’, ‘Peggy Sue’, ‘Heartbeat’, ‘It Doesn’t Matter Anymore’, ‘Raining In My Heart’, ‘Oh Boy!’ – and much, much more. Whatever the season, whatever the excuse to party, make your ‘Heartbeat’ a little faster with the show that has thousands of fans the world over saying: ‘I can’t believe it’s not Buddy!’”
Tickets cost £18 and the show starts at 7.30pm.
On Saturday 7th March, Oasis Maybe and Ultimate Roses, tributes to two of Manchester’s biggest exports to the world of pop music will be rocking the crowds at the Assembly Hall.
Promoters say, “Capturing the sound, look and feel of Oasis during their 1994-1997 golden era, Oasis Maybe focus on material from Definitely Maybe and (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, with a few famous B-sides and later singles thrown in for good measure. Bringing the
songs,the sweat and the swagger of those rough and ready early Oasis shows, these boys are gonna bring the house down.
“The only Roses tribute to hail from Manchester, Ultimate Stone Roses fill their set with songs from their heroes’ seminal first album and The Second Coming, as well as playing early fan favourites like Sally Cinnamon and Mersey Paradise. The Ultimate Stone Roses give their audiences the most authentic Stone Roses experience possible.”
Tickets cost £18 and the show starts at 8pm.
On Saturday 14th March, Powerhouse Gospel Choir will be raising the roof at the Assembly Hall.
Promoters say, “Powerhouse Gospel Choir is a team of well-seasoned singers and musicians that have gospel at their core and several years’ experience in the international music business.
“Many of our singers honed their skills as choir singers and soloists whilst in The London Community Gospel Choir, and have since gone on to work as backing vocalists and vocal technicians with some of the world’s biggest artists such as Quincy Jones, Dave Gahan, Pharrell Williams, Blur, Sam Smith and Classical Brit Award Winner Tokio Myers to name a few.”
Tickets cost £18 and the show starts at 7.30pm.
Tickets are available from the Assembly Hall in the Market Place on 709887, Melksham TIC in Church Street or visit: www. melkshamassembly. co.uk.
![Melksham Times Past
A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
Read more on our website, the link is in our bio.")
