Open Mic Night, plus more The Bridge (FREE)
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
George Harrison was a fan and friend of Robin Nolan, one of the world’s leading authorities on Gypsy Jazz Guitar. Harrison even named him as one of his favourite guitarists!
Nolan has a new instrumental album being released by George Harrison’s label ‘Dark Horse Records’ and was recorded using three of George’s famous Beatles guitars including the Gibson J160E which has the distinction of being the only guitar used on every Beatles album, the Spanish Ramirez as famously heard on 'And I Love Her' and the 12 String Rickenbacker 360/12 used by George on the bulk of the 'A Hard Day’s Night' album. This is the first time these guitars have been recorded since the 70's, an exciting prospect for all Beatles fans as well as lovers of the music of George Harrison and acoustic guitar.
With George Harrison, Hank Marvin, Bill Wyman as his fans, Willie Nelson said it best “You play a mighty fine guitar Robin Nolan”.
A show not to be missed!
THE TAV FOUR featuring Small McCartney; Jam Lemon; Ringo-Bingo; George Taverson playing Beatles sing-a-long songs.
Appearing at the Market Tavern: Saturday night 8pm to 10pm and on the Sunday 2pm to 3pm
Pulled Pork Baps available all weekend at the Market Tavern!
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
The Regal is proud to lead on a weekend festival 'Beatles Fest Tenbury: Before Abbey Road there was Teme Street...' Celebrating 60 years since the Beatles played in Tenbury. This event is part of the weekends celebrations.
THIS EVENT IS FREE! No Ticket Required - It's cabaret seating in the Studio - Just pop in watch as little or as much as you'd like and grab a coffee and cake with us (or tea!)
The music-loving inhabitants of Pepperland are under siege by the Blue Meanies, a nasty group of music-hating creatures. The Lord Mayor of Pepperland (Dick Emery) dispatches sailor Old Fred (Lance Percival) to Liverpool, England, where he is to recruit the help of the Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr). The sympathetic Beatles ride a yellow submarine to the occupied Pepperland, where the Blue Meanies have no chance against the Fab Four's groovy tunes.
Directed by George Dunning and was orignally released on the 17 July 1968
Students from Ludwig Theatre Arts to perform a selection of songs by the Beatles outside the Regal theatre.
More details to follow.
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
Head back to the swinging 60s with Tenbury's own poptastic, live music duo, Nick and Jane.
The Regal is proud to lead on a weekend festival 'Beatles Fest Tenbury: Before Abbey Road there was Teme Street...' Celebrating 60 years since the Beatles played in Tenbury. This event is part of the weekends celebrations.
THIS EVENT IS FREE! No Ticket Required - It's cabaret seating in the Studio - Just pop in watch as little or as much as you'd like and grab a coffee and cake with us (or tea!)
In the follow-up to their successful debut musical, "A Hard Day's Night," the Beatles once again offer up a melding of song and slapstick. After Ringo stumbles upon a valuable gem, the band starts getting harassed by a fringe religious group. To escape their sudden stalkers, the boys hit the road. As John, Paul, George and Ringo travel the globe, they perform a mix of musical numbers, singing hits ranging from "Ticket to Ride" to the titular ditty.
Directed by Richard Lester, this film was orignally released on 29 July 1965 and stars the fab four
Come and see a display of Classic Cars from the Beatles Era at the Round Market and The Bridge on Sunday 16th April as part of the Beatles Fest Tenbury festival.
If you would like to bring your Beatles Era car to the Display at Beatles Fest Tenbury, please complete the form below to register your interest.
Tenbury Museum are running a selection of Children’s Activities in the Pavilion:
Creative Fashion and Design Fun
Fabric paint a colourful cotton tote bag
Create a flower power headband
Suitable for ages 7 – 12
Pre reserved or booked, max 8 per session
Not reserved – ‘queue to do system’
Match the costume to the historical timeline
Match the cars and planes to the 20th century decade
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
The Regal is proud to lead on a weekend festival 'Beatles Fest Tenbury: Before Abbey Road there was Teme Street...' Celebrating 60 years since the Beatles played in Tenbury. This event is part of the weekends celebrations.
THIS EVENT IS FREE! No Ticket Required - It's cabaret seating in the Studio - Just pop in watch as little or as much as you'd like and grab a coffee and cake with us (or tea!)
The Beatles travel from Liverpool to London to perform various concerts. However, things take a dramatic turn as they realise that their drummer, Ringo, has gone missing.
This Beatles classic was released on the 6 July 1964, directed by Ricard Lester and stars the fab four themselves along with Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington and John Junkin.
Family Trail Starting at the Regal – Beatles album covers
The treasure trail quiz is being run by the 2nd Tenbury Brownies.
Pick up your quiz sheet from the front of the Regal between 10 & 12 on Saturday and between 10 & 12 on Sunday.
A trail for the under 10's to find 10 Beatles Album LP covers in 10 different shops.
Parents - you may need to explain what an LP is?!
A small prize will be given to successful completion of the quiz
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
Come and party like it's 1963! Costumes encouraged!
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
THE TAV FOUR featuring Small McCartney; Jam Lemon; Ringo-Bingo; George Taverson playing Beatles sing-a-long songs.
Appearing at the Market Tavern: Saturday night 8pm to 10pm and on the Sunday 2pm to 3pm
Pulled Pork Baps available all weekend at the Market Tavern!
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
The Mersey Beatles have been rocking sold-out audiences around the globe since 1999 with their truly authentic and widely-acclaimed celebration of the greatest band of all time.
The band – who clocked up more than 600 appearances in a 10-year residency at Liverpool’s legendary Cavern Club – brilliantly exude the inner and outer spirit of the original Fab Four.
And fans and plaudits include John Lennon’s own family.
Every Mersey Beatles concert is a hit-packed celebration from the ‘Mop Top’ hits of Beatlemania, through the psychedelic creativity of Sgt Pepper to the melodic wonder of the Fab Four’s later work such as ‘The White Album’ and Abbey Road.
LIVE at The Bridge
After a lifelong journey of numerous hiccups and musical endeavours Steven Reggie Roberts is an honest poet , musician and singer songwriter who has the ability to keep audiences at the edge of their seat aswell as there tear ducts! Proving him to be a most worthwhile act to catch in whatever state of consciousness you may be in.
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
The Mersey Beatles have been rocking sold-out audiences around the globe since 1999 with their truly authentic and widely-acclaimed celebration of the greatest band of all time.
The band – who clocked up more than 600 appearances in a 10-year residency at Liverpool’s legendary Cavern Club – brilliantly exude the inner and outer spirit of the original Fab Four.
And fans and plaudits include John Lennon’s own family.
Every Mersey Beatles concert is a hit-packed celebration from the ‘Mop Top’ hits of Beatlemania, through the psychedelic creativity of Sgt Pepper to the melodic wonder of the Fab Four’s later work such as ‘The White Album’ and Abbey Road.
"The Musical History Tour, a four-piece band celebrating the music of The Beatles and their work as solo artists."
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
Tenbury Museum are running a selection of Children’s Activities in the Pavilion:
Creative Fashion and Design Fun
Fabric paint a colourful cotton tote bag
Create a flower power headband
Suitable for ages 7 – 12
Pre reserved or booked, max 8 per session
Not reserved – ‘queue to do system’
Match the costume to the historical timeline
Match the cars and planes to the 20th century decade
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
Head back to the swinging 60s with Tenbury's own poptastic, live music duo, Nick and Jane.
LIVE MUSIC: 60S POP & BEATLES’ HITS WITH NICK AND JANE. SEE YOU THERE POP PICKERS!
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
Join author Andrew Lowe to discuss his new book ‘Before Abbery Road there was Teme Street’.
Andrew’s talk will then be followed by performances from the students of the Regal School of Creative Arts as well as the Regal Community Theatre.
DISOUNT on every 2nd Ticket!
Tickets are £5 but if you buy a pair of tickets it is discounted to £7.50!
Discount applied at checkout.
A band on the precipice of unprecedented global success
who had released their first LP the previous month
who had released their third hit single, From Me To You on the previous Thursday
who had met the Rolling Stones for the first time the previous evening and partied at their Chelsea flat
who would be playing the Albert Hall in London the following Thursday…
This band, at this time, travelled to the small market town of Tenbury Wells, deep in the Worcestershire countryside.
How did this extraordinary event come about?
How did it impact the town and how did it shape the future life of the author?
This lively account, part factual, part fiction will take you back to the birth of pop culture and forward to all that followed.
Author Andrew Lowe was born and raised in Tenbury Wells where he attended Tenbury County Secondary Modern School before going on to study at Liverpool and Kent universities.
Despite being unable to attend the dance it has loomed large in his life ever since.
Students from the Regal School of Creative Arts will perform songs from their most recent production ‘The Return of the Blue Meanies’, a new musical based on life after the Yellow Submarine written by Dr Mia Gordon with original music composed by Pete Thorogood.
Regal Community Theatre will be performing 'C'mon C'mon' - a comedy play - a Beatles tribute, written and directed by their very own Jeremy Boaz.
C’mon C’mon
It is the 15th April 1963, the day the Beatles came to Tenbury Wells. Based on true facts, this fictional play takes a light-hearted look to how a typical family might have reacted to the occasion. The Beatles had just had their first number one ‘Please, Please Me’ but were still relatively unknown.
Using many references to the lyrics from the song, can teenagers Jenny and Danny persuade their parents to let them go and see THE BEATLES?
Tenbury Library Lego Club Beatles Mania Drop in Session. Tenbury Library (FREE), Kids
Let's build a giant Yellow Submarine on a Strawberry Field here at Tenbury Library!
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
Family Trail Starting at the Regal – Beatles album covers
The treasure trail quiz is being run by the 2nd Tenbury Brownies.
Pick up your quiz sheet from the front of the Regal between 10 & 12 on Saturday and between 10 & 12 on Sunday.
A trail for the under 10's to find 10 Beatles Album LP covers in 10 different shops.
Parents - you may need to explain what an LP is?!
A small prize will be given to successful completion of the quiz
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
The Regal is proud to lead on a weekend festival 'Beatles Fest Tenbury: Before Abbey Road there was Teme Street...' Celebrating 60 years since the Beatles played in Tenbury. This event is part of the weekends celebrations.
Roger McGough, the ‘Living proof of himself,’ and President of the Poetry Society not only helped kickstart the musical careers of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, but inspired hundreds, if not thousands of young poets (well, quite a few), on their poetic journeys.
85 years old and at that awkward age now between birth and death, he puts on a brave face and takes to the stage for Tenbury’s Beatles Weekend with a show featuring new poems as well as old favourites.
The show takes audiences on a journey back to key moments of his life. McGough reflects on his Liverpool childhood before World War II, with memories and poems including The Overall Winner and Learning to Read and a throw-back to the 60’s and poems of the Mersey Beat. The evening will include the poem To Macca’s Trousers, celebrating the Beatles and the blue mohair pants that were given to him by Mike McGear, his band member, and the brother of Paul McCartney when they were both members of the hit Liverpool group The Scaffold. New verses have been added for Lily the Pink which takes a playful update on the Scaffold’s 1968 classic.
As well as laughs, there will be poems about growing old; A Joy to be Old, A Cure for Ageing and Let me Die an Old Man’s Death, which aptly round up the new show.
DISOUNT on every 2nd Ticket!
Tickets are £17.50 but if you buy a pair of tickets it is discounted to £25!
Discount applied at checkout.
The Beatles came to Tenbury Wells on 15 April 1963, playing at Bridge Hotel in the early revs of their rise to being the greatest entertainment phenomenon ever.
Six months after stopping in Tenbury the Beatles were topping the London Palladium; ten months after Tenbury they were headlining Carnegie Hall, and their triumphs extended without pause right through the Sixties. They were huge stars then, and somehow, 60 years on, they’re huge stars still.
Please join the crowds at our Regal Cinema to see Beatles expert Mark Lewisohn guide us through that history and launch our diamond anniversary festival of the Beatles in Tenbury Wells.
Mark Lewisohn – the writer – is the Beatles world authority. His many successful books include Recording Sessions (1988, recently republished) and Tune In (2013), which won the inaugural Penderyn Prize and is the first in a comprehensive three-volume history, The Beatles: All These Years. Mark is presently at work on volume two.
Reviews of Mark Lewisohn’s book Tune In:
‘A triumph. Not only an enthralling account of the Beatles’ origins, far superior to anything that has gone before, but also an essential piece of social history.’ – The Times
‘Lewisohn’s work stands as a monumental triumph, a challenge to the discipline of biography itself. If only all important subjects had their Lewisohn.’ – Washington Post
Mark Lewisohn – the speaker – has talked Beatles at literary festivals in Edinburgh, Oxford, Bath, Cheltenham and more, and at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Lincoln Center in New York and the Smithsonian in Washington DC. He has twice presented his own theatre show, Hornsey Road in 2019 and Beatles/Evolver:62 last October.
Review of Mark Lewisohn’s 2022 stage show Evolver:62:
‘Lewisohn is an engaging presenter who finds clever ways to illustrate the story. One of the things I like about him is that although he’s gone to enormous lengths to acquire all this information, he never seems proprietorial about it. He likes sharing his treasure, using it to enrich everyone else’s enjoyment of a story that will never be repeated.’ – Richard Williams, thebluemoment.com
DISOUNT on every 2nd Ticket!
Tickets are £10 but if you buy a pair of tickets it is discounted to £15!
Discount applied at checkout.
The Festival will start at the original site of the Riverside Dancing Club at the Bridge Inn.
The Tenbury Town Band will walk to the Regal where the Festival will be formally opened by:
Cllr Eric Hudson, Tenbury Town Mayor and Jane Allen, Chair, Tenbury Regal Trust
The Cool Moves Dance class will be twisting and jiving outside the Regal to get the weekend party mood started.come.
Children's Drop In at Tenbury Wells Library (£3 per person, cash and contactless accepted on the day)
Drop in anytime to be a part of this fantastic collaborative BEATLES FEST TENBURY art project. All ages very welcome (including big kids!). The finish piece will be displayed in the window of the Regal throughout the celebratory weekend - let's get creative!
This event is organised by a third party and is being promoted by The Regal as part of Beatles Fest Tenbury. The Regal takes no responsibility for the ticketing and running of this event.
We are proud recipients of the BFI FAN Covid-19 Resilience fund with thanks to the BFI Film Audience Network awarding funds from National Lottery.
