Celebrating 70 Years of WNO – Welsh National Opera’s Summer Season is a Time to Reflect and to Look to the Future • World Première of In Parenthesis by Iain Bell • Revival of the Company’s first operas Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci • New site- specific production of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine as part of Wales Millennium Centre’s Festival of Voice. • New WNO Youth Opera production Kommilitonen! by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Welsh National Opera will celebrate 70 years…

At the campaign for an elected Mayor for Cardiff we take very seriously the need to balance off the need for democracy with the use of public money. Our campaign is about making sure the people of Cardiff have a democratic voice while at the same time ensuring public resources are not wasted. The recent report by Cardiff Council that holding a referendum and then electing a mayor would cost the City over a million pounds. We dispute this figure…

St David’s Hall Wednesday 23 March 7.30pm PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS LEMAR, MATT CARDLE & LEVI ROOTS! DOUBLE MOBO award-winning saxophonist YolanDa Brown is coming to St David’s Hall on Wednesday 23 March and she’s bringing a string of special guests with her! Sharing the stage with YolanDa will be Lemar, Matt Cardle and Levi Roots! YolanDa won the Best Jazz Act at the MOBOs in 2008 and 2009 and stormed to the top of the iTunes and Amazon jazz charts…

ONE of Ireland’s greatest female singers is coming to St David’s Hall as Mary Coughlan brings her remarkable voice to the Roots Unearthed series next Tuesday (15 March). Over the last 25 years, Mary has established herself as a superb solo artist with her enviable body of work encompassing the genres of jazz and folk in an uncompromising, wholly personal and universal manner. Whether she’s tackling Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Elvis Presley or even Joy Division, her flawless delivery sails…

EVER wondered how you would cope whilst faced with the most unbearable odds? Well, prepare to be amazed by Ray Mears’ Tales of Endurance: Stories to Inspire next Wednesday (16 March) at St David’s Hall! In this heart-stirring presentation you’ll experience the whole rollercoaster of emotions from spine-tingling fear and shock to the most incredible buzz of exhilaration. You will simply be pinching yourself at the unbelievable circumstances this man has overcome. Through his fascinating stories, Ray takes us on…

The Charity has announced that projects interested in applying for funding can attend a funding surgery to discuss their ideas.   Projects across Cardiff are being invited to attend the first ever funding surgery in the city, organised by BBC Children in Need and in collaboration with the Cardiff Third Sector Council (C3SC). The funding surgery will give projects across the city the opportunity to access the popular funding programme and will be held at the Cardiff Third Sector Council on Friday 18th March. BBC…

The Great Roath Bake Off 2016 Cardiff cake Roath Bake The Great Roath Bake Off returns on April 23rd at St Andrews Church Wellfield Road, Roath. The Bake Off is in its sixth year and promises to be a fun packed day for all cake lovers. Each year the event has got more popular and we anticipate a great turn out again in April. Over the years The Great Roath Bake Off has raised thousands of pounds for local cardiff charities…

Shane Filan announces Right Here Tour 2016 IRISH POP SUPERSTAR ANNOUNCES 2016 UK TOUR AND ITS COMING TO CARDIFF ST DAVIDS HALL WEDNESDAY 09 MARCH 2016 In the wake of releasing his hit album “Right Here” in September 2015, Shane Filan has announced a major indoor UK Tour taking in some of the UK’s best loved venues and the tour is coming to Cardiff St David’s Hall on Wednesday 09 March 2016. Shane says,“I am thrilled to be getting out…

St David’s Hall Saturday 12 March 7.30pm BOTH ARTISTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PHONE INTERVIEWS! BRITPOP hero Chris Helme is coming to St David’s Hall armed with an arsenal of solo songs and his most powerful weapon – his voice! Plus, he’s bringing Aberdare singer-songwriter Ragsy with him as support for this special show in the L3 Lounge on Saturday 12 March at 7.30pm. Chris first shot to prominence as the frontman of John Squire’s post-Stone Roses band The Seahorses after…

To commemorate the 11th anniversary of World Down Syndrome Day, Wyn Evans, a column writer for Cardiff Times, and loving father to his Down Syndrome daughter , shared a moving status on his facebook page yesterday: ‘I’ve often wondered what I would say or do if someone dissed Angharad or her Down Syndrome in front of her and me. I hope I would respond politely but informatively. I hope I would respond at all. I’m lucky, cos I have the…