News from Ribble Valley
Crowds have been descending on Clitheroe all day to enjoy this year's Ribble Valley Jazz Festival. The street festival proved popular in Castle Street this morning with the rain clouds failing to disperse on spectators who enjoyed entertainment from a ...
A RIBBLE Valley pub that was damaged in the Boxing Day floods has reopened its doors for the first time. Licensees Phil and Tina Fairey have relaunched The Ribchester Arms pub-restaurant with a new look following the devastation caused by the rising ...
The seventh Ribble Valley Jazz Festival launches with Bill Laurance who won a Grammy with transatlantic ensemble Snarky Puppy, the acclaimed fusion band. He has just released his third album under his name and The Bill Laurance Trio who will appear ...
Licensees Phil and Tina Fairey, who run The Ribchester Arms on the banks of the Ribble, were devastated when the river broke its banks on Boxing Day, flooding the Blackburn Road pub as record rainfalls fell throughout the Ribble Valley. The village ...
There are none, though, quite like the Hackney Colliery Band, one of the more unusual acts to grace this weekend's Ribble Valley Jazz Festival. Mining nuggets of funk, hip-hop and high octane rock from the musical coalface, they fuse electronica, Afro ...
“IT was like some sort of surreal, crazy dream,” recalled jazz maestro Bill Laurance who opens the seventh Ribble Valley Jazz Festival at Clitheroe's Grand Theatre tonight. “Snarky Puppy had been invited to play on a cruise ship in the South China Sea ...
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Hotels
Mercure Blackburn Foxfields Country Hotel. Mercure Blackburn Foxfields Country Hotel.
Whalley Rd,
BB7 9HY Billington, Lancashire
Best Western Higher Trapp Country House Hotel Best Western Higher Trapp Country House Hotel
Trapp Lane, Simonstone
BB12 7QW Burnley
The Avenue Hotel The Avenue Hotel
Brockhall Village, Old Langho
BB6 8AY Clitheroe