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						<title><![CDATA[Wellington Acoustic Music Club]]></title>
						<link>http://www.w-a-a.co.uk/event.php?Event_UID=297</link>
						<description><![CDATA[<b>]]>Time and Date: Saturday 21st August 2010 at 8:00pm<![CDATA[</b><br>]]><![CDATA[Acoustic music in a relaxed atmosphere. Come along to the Arts Centre bar, to listen or to join in. No charge, but donations are welcomed.]]></description>
						<category>The Critics Club</category>
						<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 10 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Pantomime read-through]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[<b>]]>Time and Date: Friday 3rd September 2010 at 7:30pm<![CDATA[</b><br>]]><![CDATA[A read-through of the script, for all those interested in taking part in our award winning pantomime groups next production of "Jack and the Beanstalk" to be performed on stage at the Wellesley Theatre in January 2011.]]></description>
						<category>Pantomime Group</category>
						<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 10 19:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Pantomime auditions]]></title>
						<link>http://www.w-a-a.co.uk/event.php?Event_UID=301</link>
						<description><![CDATA[<b>]]>Time and Date: Sunday 5th September 2010 at 7:30pm<![CDATA[</b><br>]]><![CDATA[Auditions for our award winning pantomime groups next production of "Jack & the Beanstalk" - to be staged at the Wellesley from 25th to 29th January 2011. Director: Colin Marshall.]]></description>
						<category>Pantomime Group</category>
						<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 10 19:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[Wellington Acoustic Music club.]]></title>
						<link>http://www.w-a-a.co.uk/event.php?Event_UID=305</link>
						<description><![CDATA[<b>]]>Time and Date: Saturday 18th September 2010 at 8:00pm<![CDATA[</b><br>]]><![CDATA[Acoustic music in a relaxed atmosphere. Come along to the Arts Centre bar, to listen or to join in. No charge, but donations are welcomed.]]></description>
						<category>Other</category>
						<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 10 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[FOS brothers]]></title>
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						<description><![CDATA[<b>]]>Time and Date: Saturday 25th September 2010 at 8:00pm<![CDATA[</b><br>]]><![CDATA[The FOS Brothers are Dave and Sam McCrory from East Belfast, N.Ireland, joined by Rom Dobbs an innovative drummer/percussionist from the South West of England.
Together they create a unique soundscape of acoustic music heavily influenced by their Irish roots. It would be difficult to watch a performance without being impressed by their skill as original songwriters and arrangers of  traditional music.


Sam McCrory - Vocal + Acoustic Guitar
Sam is one of those gifted individuals that many musicians love to hate. His balance between vocal and guitar could easily have led him to a career in his own right, infact the band usually give him a solo slot at the start of FOS gigs on the condition he does not say anything to the audience !

Dave McCrory  Acoustic Guitar, Electric Mandolin + Vocals
Dave is the brains behind the band, writing most of the songs and booking and organizing the gigs. One time instrument maker (he built the electric mandolin type thing he plays) now works as an agent for the FOS brothers and 6 other acts + solar powered stage and circus.

Rom Dobbs  Drums, Percussion + samples
Dave & Sam have been trying to kick Rom out of the band for just about as many years as he has been trying to leave, but he is irreplaceable due to a strange ability to work with acoustic instrumentalists in a way few drummers can. The FOS Brothers would cease to exist without the ethnic/ambient dance music influence he adds to the arrangements. Rom is a first rate guitar and drum repairer/technician and also a much sought after session musician. 

What FOS Brothers achieve in their performance is something which not many bands labelled under roots manage  an eclectic diversity of Irish Folk, world influences and song-smithery (Tim Boxer - Kentisbeare Music Festival)

Caught your set at the Eden Project and it just blew me away. Bought the album and have been listening to it ever since. (Denis Taylor)

The FOS brothers have played on our stage at Glastonbury every year for the last 10 years and still pack the house with their superb musicianship and sublime vocals. (Andy Hope, Croissant Neuf, Glastonbury Festival)

A stirring fusion of original and traditional songs on hypnotic acoustic guitars to 21st century dance grooves.
(Steve Knightley  Show of Hands)
www.fosbrothers.com

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						<category>Other</category>
						<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 10 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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						<title><![CDATA[FLAMING STAR - THE MUSIC OF ELVIS PRESLEY]]></title>
						<link>http://www.w-a-a.co.uk/event.php?Event_UID=306</link>
						<description><![CDATA[<b>]]>Time and Date: Tuesday 9th November to Saturday 13th November 2010 at 7:30pm<![CDATA[</b><br>]]><![CDATA["Flaming Star" celebrates Elvis Presley's 75th Anniversary with songs and music that made him the King of Rock'n Roll.]]></description>
						<category>Operatic Society</category>
						<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 10 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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