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For this in the round show we arrive at the Hall and are invited to join the Bride or Groom's side - we are guests at the wedding.  In this show all those nail biting social dilemmas of meeting the in-laws for the first time, deplorable behaviour by the teenagers, the drunken best man and the adults are racheted up with the traditional tropes of Aesop's tale  "the Town and the Country Mouse" and just to add to the pot this is a cross cultural wedding - Asian sophistication meets down to earth farming life 21st century style.   Wolverhampton born Arjen and his newly wed wife Claire from deepest Herefordshire are setting out on their journey with the first dance.    The upstairs Gallery at the Poly is laid out for a village hall wedding breakfast......bunting, wedding cake, and a cheery upbeat disco soundtrack lay the foundation for an evening of a light hearted humour at the expense of our prejudices and insecurities. Lampooning the ways of urban sophisticates and

"Kevos" is the Cornish word for "contemporary" and is the names chosed for a new  Cornish  band formed in 2015 by conductor Patrick Bailey.  This last Saturday  5th November 2016 were making musical fireworks at the Poly, in Falmouth with live performances of new contemporary music  film scores composed for classic movies   by rising Cornish composer Ben Comeau and the more established Ed Hughes, who is Professor of Composition at Sussex University. This is the second outing (I have attended)  of the band Kevos which includes  Philip Montgomery Smith (violin), David White (clarinet); Will Sleath (flute); James Robinson percussion, Danielle Jones Cello and Stella Pendrous piano.  Their first at the Burrel Theatre in Truro back in April  presented two settings of  music to a 1929 film by Dutchman Joris Ivens of "Regen"  meaning "Rain" first score written by Hans Eisler    "Fourteen Ways of Describing Rain"  a new version by Ed Hughes