The Quayside Festival hits town on Saturday 29th July and will feature street entertainment, live music and all sorts of things from Blakes Gardens to West Quay to the Angel Place Shopping Centre and from Kings Square down to New road. The day is a fun packed family orientated affair and you can find what’s […]

The Quayside Festival is Bridgwater’s new free outdoor summer festival with an array of live music, arts and entertainment across eight locations in the centre of the town. The festival ,set for Saturday 29th July 2017, will celebrate Bridgwater’s and Sedgemoor’s diverse and creative culture and showcase both local talent and national artists. Festival locations […]

There will be a special screening of the film I, Daniel Blake at the Engine Room in Bridgwater on Thursday March 30th to coincide with Unite Community’s Day of Action on benefit sanctions. Andy Mitchell of UNITE Community says “Places can be booked through the Somerset film website. There are 2 ticket types:£3 standard ticket […]

Tribute to the Toughest Dave Chapple, Bridgwater postman and Jamaican music DJ, pays respects to ska/rock steady king Prince Buster, who died on September 8th Cecil Bustamante Campbell, aka Prince Buster, was born on May 24th 1938 in Kingston Jamaica, British West Indies. Buster’s father was a rail worker, and, one suspects, a trades unionist: […]

Every year we take Bridgwater people to our European partner towns and bring back over here folk from many nations, celebrating our internationalism, contributing not just to peace and understanding around the world but also to our mutual local economies. This week it’s Slovenians. One of our most successful projects involves music. And in particular […]