Riverside Folk Festival - Annual event run by the Upton Folk Dance and Song Society. Includes programme details and ticket information.
Oliver Cromwell Jazz Festival - Annual international festival, held over three days in June. Gives details of the programme, photograhs from previous years, and ticketing information.
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Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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