What’s on in Stroud this week: 30 June – 6 July
It’s another busy week of summer events in Stroud, with Rodborough Fete taking place at Stroud Rugby Club this Saturday, a wine festival among the vineyards of North Nibley, a Sacred Music Festival at St Laurence’s and a dance music festival in a barn near Nailsworth.
Plus a writing retreat in Berkeley, late opening at the National Trust’s Tinkley Gate, a free concert in Stratford Park and a special Sunday afternoon event at the Retreat. It’s certainly a busy time of year to be a Stroudie.
Find out more in our regular look at things coming up in Stroud and the wider district. To suggest an event for inclusion, use this form.
- Get creative at Dr Jenner’s House – Wed 2 Jul, 1 – 8pm
Emma Kernahan and JLM Morton bring together this creative afternoon writing retreat at Dr Jenner’s House in Berkeley as part of their Dialect programme for rural and edgeland writers. The event will begin with an afternoon of quiet, structured creative time, followed by an evening social, with readings of poetry and prose and music.
- Attend Rodborough Fete – Sat 5 Jul, 12 noon – 4pm
Rodborough Fete moves to Stroud Rugby Club for one year only whilst work takes place at the community hall, with music, a bouncy castle, games and food and drink. Rodborough WI will also be running a produce show, and various other community groups will have stalls around the site.
- Drink wine in Waterley Bottom – Sat 5 Jul, 2 – 8pm
The parish of North Nibley is home to a surprising five vineyards, and in celebration the local vintners are holding their first ever village wine festival. Thirsty potential attendees should head to the Doverte Brook Vineyard in the poetically-named hamlet of Waterley Bottom.
- Attend the Velocity Day Festival – Sat 5 July, 12 noon – 10pm
Ruggers Green Barn outside Nailsworth hosts this boutique dance music festival featuring drum and bass, trance, jungle and techno. The event runs until 10pm and includes fire performances.
- Attend the Stroud Sacred Music Festival – Sat 5 – Sun 6 Jul
This year, Stroud Sacred Music Festival celebrates a decade of bringing together soulful and eclectic religious music from many traditions. This year, the festival has partnered with audio specialists Loss Gain and d&b Soundscape for what we are told will be an immersive programme of transcendent musical performances at St Laurence Parish Church – also known as the Stroud Centre for Peace & the Arts.
- Watch Stroud Area Wind Orchestra on the bandstand – Sun 6 Jul, 2 – 4pm
One of the best wind orchestras in the Stroud area plays a free live gig at the bandstand in Stratford Park. Different gigs take place every week until the end of September.
- Enjoy music and food at the Retreat – Sun 6 Jul, 1 – 11pm
The Retreat in Stroud hosts this special afternoon and evening event, with Sri Lankan street food from Sri-Licious from 1 – 5pm, and music from 3pm until close with DJs Neon Pumps and Jonny Connolly.
Continuing this week
- Stay late at Woodchester Park – Fridays until 25 Jul, until 8pm
The National Trust continues its summer season at Woodchester Park with weekly late openings until 8pm each Friday. The Tinkley Gate café will be open until 7.30pm serving homemade focaccias and pizzas, and ice cream.
Further afield
- Celebrate eighty years of the Cheltenham Music Festival – Fri 4 – Sat 12 Jul
There’s seemingly a festival for everything in Cheltenham, but their music festival celebrates a special anniversary this year, having been bringing classical music to the masses since 1945. We are told that the resulting event will bring together the world’s finest musicians alongside bold new voices shaping the future of classical music.
- For a full month of art, music, theatre, literature, film and comedy events, pick up a copy of Stroud’s popular listings magazine, Good on Paper.
