Aroundtown Meets Kate Rusby

Aroundtown Meets Kate Rusby

Christmas isn’t in full flight until Barnsley’s nightingale, Kate Rusby, starts her annual festive tour. Forget the defrosting diva, Miss Carey. With seven Christmas albums and an almost twenty-year tradition of a festive tour, it’s self-confessed holly head Kate who’s the unofficial queen of Christmas. Folk royalty since the early...

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Aroundtown Meets Tom Masters

Aroundtown Meets Tom Masters

He’s the Barnsley lad with the big voice, big heart and big hair. And it’s clear to see why Tom Masters has instantly struck a chord with audiences across the region. Over the last few years, we’ve seen Tom mature from this young tenor in the award-winning Barnsley Youth Choir...

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Aroundtown Meets Ian McMillan

Aroundtown Meets Ian McMillan

We meet the Bard of Barnsley, Ian McMillan to hear more about how hardly saying no has led to him becoming one of poetry’s most recognisable faces.

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Aroundtown Meets Tala Lee-Turton

Aroundtown Meets Tala Lee-Turton

There’s an admirable fearlessness about Tala Lee-Turton. Her whole life has been spent meticulously moving her body beyond its limits as a classically trained dancer. But now she’s pushing the boundaries of ballet, exercising her creativity to produce performances that defy the customary conventions and boxed in views of the...

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Aroundtown Meets Alan Hydes

Aroundtown Meets Alan Hydes

We meet former table tennis champion Alan Hydes to hear how a 50p bat bought from Barnsley Co-op would enable him to travel the world with the England team.

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Barnsley Serves the World: history of the former Slazenger Factory

Barnsley Serves the World: history of the former Slazenger Factory

This April, Experience Barnsley is unveiling a new exhibition, Barnsley Serves the World, dedicated to the former staff at Barnsley’s Slazenger factory.

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