This years Food & Drink Festival looks to be better than ever with special guests The Hairy Bakers making an appearance on Sunday! From the real Ale Trail to the Farmers Market, there's something for everyone!
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Following the great success of our first two comedy nights there will be more in the near future, watch this space....
TUESDAY 14th AN EVENING WITH STAN "They bombed our Brasserie!" BOARDMAN - A comedy club special with Stan Boardman as seen recently on celebrity wife swap! Tickets in advance; £12 or £25 including supper. £15 entry only on the door.
Andy Whitehall and 'The Right Stuff' who did a sponsored mountain climb
in
Tenerife for the Christina fund presenting a cheque for £1100!
Thank You to everyone who came along to support our ‘Christina Fund’ Football Match last Sunday!
The raffle for the Signed Stoke City Shirt raised £720
and the signed Football went for £100! - the great spirit of Stone shone through again!
The next event is going to be a Night of Music & Art At Granvilles on Sunday 21st June
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Following the success of our first Wednesday Salsa night, we will be holding it regularly on the 3rd Wednesday of every month! Salsa music from 8.30, free salsa dance tuition from 9.00 if you want to try it and salsa DJ with live percussion till late! Free entry!!!
Get your dancing shoes ready!!! ...or just come along and watch!
TOP STAND-UP TO LAUNCH STONE’S FIRST COMEDY CLUB.
Top stand-up comedian and SkySports presenter, Paul Boardman is to launch a new comedy club in Stone.
As part of their 25th Anniversary celebrations, popular Stone entertainment venue, Granville’s, stages its first Comedy Club on Wednesday 22 April (8.30pm).
Paul Boardman is familiar to many as a regular presenter on SkySports where he also hosts the Saturday night football highlight’s programme ‘Football First’. In addition to which, he has established himself as one of the country’s most popular stand-up comedians regularly appearing at top venues such as London’s ‘Comedy Store’ and ‘Jongleurs’.
A former professional footballer with Plymouth Argyle, Boardman scored on his League debut, but after two and a half years with Argyle his career ended prematurely due to injury. He joined SkySports as a presenter in 2001, a career he has since combined with stand-up, a not unnatural venture as Paul is the son of top Liverpool comedian, Stan Boardman.
Stone-based writer and stand-up, Les Scott, is to host the Comedy Club which is also have an ‘open-mike’ for budding comics try their material before a live audience.
The plan is for the Comedy Night to become a regular monthly event at Granville’s, said owner, Adam Jones, ‘In the past we have had the likes of George Melly and Humphrey Lyttleton at Granville’s, though better known for their music, the comedy element in their respective acts proved immensely popular with audiences.
‘There is no established comedy venue in North Staffs. By bringing top stand-ups to Granville’s and affording local comics an opportunity to perform, we’re hoping the Comedy Club will really take-off.’
Advance Tickets (priced £8.50) for the first Comedy Club featuring Paul Boardman are available from Granville’s (01785 816658).
Granvilles sponsor one of the races in the first ever Stone
Cycling Event
The winner gets their weight in BEER!!!
Stone continues an
association with its rural heritage and love of good food
with a regular High Street Farmers Market on the first
Saturday of every month. Locally produced meats and cheeses
can be bought along with a host of specialty foods, beers
and wines.
Anthony Worrall Thompson cutting into a pumpkin at last years
Stone
Food & Drink Festival.
Anthony Worall Thompson and Mary Berry outside
Granvilles with festival
organisers after their cookery
demonstrations for the Stone Food & Drink Festival.
The
origins of the name of the town of Stone go back a long way to
the 7th Century when King Wulfhere of Mercia slew his two sons
for becoming Christians. Led by his wife Queen Erminhilda people
put down stones where they lay. Eventually sorry for what he
had done the King founded a priory over his sons grave and a
town grew up around it!
Please
ring 01785 816658 to contact
us or email adam@granvilles.st
