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One of the UK’s leading visual theatre companies, Theatre Re recombines original live music with striking visual performance to create world class, deeply moving non-verbal productions about universal human challenges and the fragility of life.

Short tales of other worlds; ghosts, dreams and the supernatural. Fascinating and imaginative storytellers, The Paper Cinema, create extraordinary, magical worlds with vivid pen and ink drawings, puppetry, and a treasure trove of acoustic and electronic sounds. 

Black RAT Productions and Blackwood Miners’ Institute present a new comedy by Richard Tunley. After binge-watching Who Do You Think You Are? Count Dracula becomes convinced he’s got royal blood—thanks to a dubious link between Vlad the Impaler and the Prince of Wales. So, he orders a flat-pack coffin off Temu, books himself an Airbnb, and sets off for the Black Forest… only to land in Blackwood in the South Wales Valleys!

Enjoy free performances from RWCMD jazz students throughout the festival.

Trumpeter Tomos Williams returns with his new project re-imagining music from the Welsh folk tradition. 'Blodeugerdd / The Great Welsh Songbook' comprises a stellar line-up of Welsh jazz musicians: Huw Warren (piano) Paula Gardiner (bass) and Mark O'Connor (drums), create an A-list Welsh jazz rhythm section who'll be joined by Rachel Musson (tenor sax), the brilliant young vocalist Eadyth Crawford and Tomos on trumpet.

Described by The New York Times as "Dynamically supple...vivid and assured", American guitarist Martha Masters' playing has a fluidity and warmth which leaves the listener wanting more. From fugue and flamenco to a little touch of Bossa Nova, this programme shows off the guitar in all its greatness.

Leading guitarist Ant Law is “a game changer” and “an innovator” as described by The Guardian. Unified Theories is Law's ambitious new album marking the start of a brand new lineup. Featuring Will Vinson (alto sax) who returns to Britain after decades at the forefront of the New York jazz scene, one of Europe’s most versatile and in demand bassists, Niklas Lukassen, and Cuban Ernesto Simpson (drums) known for his work with Dizzy Gillespie, Michael Brecker and many more.

Quercus brings together three of the UK’s most creative, multi award-winning musicians to create chamber music that weaves together the essence of folk and jazz.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the 30-piece Down for the Count Swing Orchestra returns with its much-loved annual seasonal treat, Swing Into Christmas !

Experience the true spirit of Christmas on one stage as Sinfonia Cymru join forces with harpist Catrin Finch, fiddler Patrick Rimes, National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa and Only Boys Aloud. This unique and bilingual concert blends traditional Welsh Plygain carols, Christmas favourites and new poetry. Inspired by A Child’s Christmas in Wales, it’s a joyful and inclusive celebration of Welsh tradition, diversity and the magic of Christmas.