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Wales Millennium Centre guarantees to make you Blysh this summer |
Wales Millennium Centre will put some colour back in your cheeks this summer with the return of its weird and wonderful Blysh Festival.Now in its second year, Blysh Festival will amuse and amaze, as some of the best acts in music, comedy and cabaret from across the world bring their magic to Cardiff bay. The ten-day Blysh Festival will take place in and around Wales Millennium Centre from Friday 16 July to Sunday 25 July, with the vast majority of the performances being free of charge. Once again Blysh Festival will join forces with the Cardiff Festival, culminating in WOW on the Waterfront, a spectacular aerial performance of acrobatics, dance and music. Soak up the cool festival atmosphere down in Cardiff Bay whilst listening to some free music or pick from one of the many highlights listed below. MUSIC: Blysh will kick- off with a performance by Johnny Cage and the Voodoo Groove. The five-piece band - known as the five suited and booted amigos from Cardiff - should get you in the swing of summer with their mix of rock-n-roll and blues music. Top Shelf Jazz delivers a heady mix of crooning melodies, swing and plenty of banter, served up with some kazoo solos while dressed in safari suits. The group return to their Welsh roots, fresh from a European tour to add plenty of cheeky misbehaviour to the Blysh Festival. Bristol's only Ukuele super-group also returns to Blysh Festival with a free performance on the Centre's Glanfa stage. The Rinky Dinks list George Formby, The Clash, Fred Astaire, The Who and anything else which works on four strings among their influences. You'll recognise From the Moon as the band behind Wales's very own No Fit State Circus. Sit back and relax to their distinctive sound. CIRCUS And No Fit State will share their circus skills through a number of free workshops during Blysh Festival. COMEDY La Navet Bete's perform Zemblanity, a series of madcap comedy sketches and playful buffoonery. Their infectious and manic energy means there???s no wonder they are one of Edinburgh Festival's favourites. We???ll squeeze any final morsels of laughter you might have left in you with more comedy in English and Welsh. The Free Welsh Alternative comedy will feature Noel James, Juliette Meyers and Dan Bland. And in Dal dy Dir Gillian Elisa, Neil Rosser and Noel James will be doing their very own Welsh-language stand up comedy. DANCE THEATRE Mimbre fuses acrobatics with theatre and dance. Consisting of three female performers, they tell their stories using their own bodies resulting in a stunning display of strength, agility, grace and skill. The performers create a charming piece of acrobatic work with a pinch of mischievous humour. Blysh Festival opens up the Weston Studio to Citrus Arts with Web their new work developed to speak to young audiences through thoughtful and progressive theatrical-circus and dance. CABARET Also returning to Blysh Festival are Bourgeois & Maurice. Part-cabaret, part-theatre, part-catwalk freak show, this duo will deliver their catchy pop hooks with a biting wit as sharp as their outfits. AROUND THE CENTRE A spectacular performance is guaranteed with this year's WOW on the Waterfront. Spanish-Argentine company Grupo Puja will perform K@osmos in the Oval Basin, Roald Dahl Plass. This is an adrenaline-fuelled aerial spectacle where eight energetic performers swing, spin, bounce and fly overhead while suspended 150 feet in the air from a giant steel ball. Gareth Lloyd Roberts, producer at Wales Millennium Centre said: "The Blysh Festival returns to Cardiff bay this summer with a sequined packed programme of events. Now in its second year, Blysh brings some of the best, and naughtiest, local and international talent to Wales. Visitors to Cardiff this summer can enjoy a feast of music, comedy and theatre performances and a good dose of the unexpected" Full listing of Blysh Festival can be found at www.wmc.org.uk/blysh For tickets and more information call the ticket office on 029 2063 6464. |
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Thursday, July 1, 2010 |
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