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After the fantastic success of the free blues festival here at the Museum of East Anglian Life during Stowmarket festival 2011, we’re happy to announce that StowBlues will be making another appearance on the 2nd June 2pm-10pm. Organiser of StowBlues Mike Rushmore, himself lead singer and percussionist of Back Porch, has pulled together another fantastic lineup. Click on the bandnames to find out more about the great acts that will be performing this year.

2.00pm Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective
3.00pm Second Hand Blues
4.00pm Electra
5.00pm Absolution
6.15pm Back Porch
7.30pm Blues Situation
8.45pm Saiichi Sugiyama Band

We’ll have a well stocked real ale bar on the day, and onsite cafe The Osier will be providing food and other refreshments throughout the day. For any enquiries contact us on 01449 612229 or at enquiries@eastanglianlife.org.uk

Check out pictures of last years Blues Festival on our Blues Festival Gallery page here

Visit the StowBlues website at www.stowblues.co.uk

Inside Out Community Arts in Mental Health is running a 6 week creative arts course at the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket. The courses will be running on Thursdays from 1.30 to 4.00pm from the 26th April to 31st May.

Art In Mind stowmarket PDF 2012

For further details or to book a place visit the Inside Out Community Arts in Mental Health website or email juliet@insideoutcommunity.com 07847 894602

We’re very excited to say that the doors of Abbot’s hall will finally be opening this weekend the 21st and 22nd of April. Visitors who arrive this weekend will be the first to step through the newly refurbished doors of Abbot’s Hall. In addition to this, our first Temporary Exhibition, the Doc Rowe Archive; 50 Years of Folk, will be arriving in style with a special ticketed event on Saturday afternoon to hear Doc Rowe himself in conversation with the exhibitions Curator Simon Costin. Find out more about this special exhibition here

The house and our opening weekend was recently reported on by the East Anglian Daily Times, including a video with our Director Tony Butler which you can watch on the East Anglian’s website EADT

Abbot’s Hall will be open year round from this weekend onwards. For more details contact the museum on 01449 612229 or via our contact us page.

The Doc Rowe Archive; 50 Years Focusing on Folk is the first temporary exhibition to be shown in Abbot’s Hall. The show features Doc’s archive of British folk customs amassed over 50 years and stylishly curated by Simon Costin of the Museum of British Folklore. On Saturday 21 April Doc will be in conversation with Simon in the Abbot’s Hall Barn from 2pm. Tickets for the event are £2 . (tickets include admission to the exhibition in Abbots’s Hall but not the rest of the museum, where normal admission applies)

For more information, contact the Museum on enquries@eastanglianlife.org.uk or 01449 612229

Job applications are now closed, thanks to all who applied

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