Out & About Spring 2018

COMPETITION

Win a pair of tickets to see Sansara plus pre-show dinner

T he Newbury Spring Festival and Honesty Group are delighted to offer an evening’s entertainment on Thursday, May 24. You can win two tickets to see choral group Sansara at St Martin’s Church, East Woodhay, and a pre-concert dinner for two at the Crown and Garter, Inkpen. Sansara are one of the most dynamic choral groups in the UK, singing choral music old and new in imaginative, narrative programmes. In September 2015, Sansara won first prize and audience prize in the London International A Cappella Choir competition at St John’s Smith Square. Their Spring Festival performance will feature a beautiful all-English programme, which starts with individual and collective expressions of loss and grief, reflecting on the centenary of the end of the First World War, before turning towards spring and a sense of hope and regeneration. The Newbury Spring Festival returns for its 40th year from May 12-26, with world-class concerts featuring artists from classical music, folk, jazz and cabaret. To find out more about the festival and to book tickets call 0845 5218 218 or visit www.newburyspringfestival. org.uk For your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Sansara at East Woodhay Church on Thursday, May 24, with a

pre-show dinner at The Crown and Garter, Inkpen, answer the following question: How many years is the Newbury Spring Festival celebrating in 2018? Send your answer on the form to Newbury Spring Festival competition, OUT&ABOUT, Newspaper House, Faraday Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2DW. The closing date for entries is Thursday, April 26. For O&A terms and conditions please see p5.

seasonal and, wherever possible, local ingredients. In 2015, it won best newcomer for the South East and London area in the Great British Pub Awards and was runner-up in the best gourmet bolt hole category in the Food and Travel Magazine awards. There are 10 individually-designed bedrooms and a coffee shop on site where you can enjoy handmade cakes, pastries and biscuits, made locally in Honesty Bakery. Honesty Group has four other coffee shops in Lambourn, Kingsclere, Hungerford and Houghton Lodge, near Stockbridge. It also has a cookery school located near Newbury.

Newbury Spring Festival competition

T he Crown and Garter is once Newbury Spring Festival. The Crown and Garter, part of the Honesty group of businesses, is situated in the heart of the Berkshire countryside in Inkpen near Hungerford and is the perfect location for a pre-concert meal. The Crown and Garter, in its current guise, opened its doors in September 2014 and has acquired a reputation for good food, cooked simply using fresh, again pleased to be supporting the

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