What's On in the Ashby de la Zouch area this weekend
By Ashby Nub News Reporter 24th Apr 2025
This weekend's Ashby events cover a wide range of entertainment and activities - hopefully, there is something for everyone.
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Funhouse Comedy Club brings a Super Gong Competition to the Lyric Rooms on Friday.
Ten of the best rising stars on the circuit go head-to-head for a £100 prize, but after they have been on stage, five audience judges with red and green cards decide whether they stay or go!
If they survive 10 minutes, then they make it to the final at the end of the night, where each finalist does another 60 seconds before the whole audience picks a winner.
It's a highly entertaining show. Acts including Josh Pugh and Scott Bennett played their first ever gigs on one of these nights and a previous winner was James Acaster, so you could well be seeing a future superstar.
More details are HERE.
Just over the border in South Derbyshire, Swadlincote hosts Derbyshire Makes, A celebration of community and making.
Discover hands-on, fun and accessible free workshops and demos, from pottery and wood turning to letterpress printing and more, alongside a local Makers' Market, exhibitions, and 'Swad's Reet Good Art Trail' (in partnership with Swadlincote Festival of Words).
The programme also deepens the National Forest's presence in the town centre with a special Forest Makers' Market and 'Treading Lightly,' a unique workshop by artist and shoe designer Sasha Archer exploring how we can reduce our carbon footprint.
It all happens in Swadlincote over two days - Saturday and Sunday.
More details are HERE.
Paddington Bear is a regular attraction in Ashby town centre these days. But what about the film that allowed him make his home here?
Ashby Film Nights is showing Paddington in Peru at Ashby School next Wednesday.
Paddington - voiced as usual by Ben Whishaw - receives a letter from a nun who runs the Home for Retired Bears, in Peru, where his Aunt Lucy is passing her twilight years.
The nun is a hearty, acoustic guitar-strumming character played joyously by Olivia Colman.
The letter says that his aunt is behaving strangely and then she goes missing. The Brown family and Paddington then set off on an adventure in the jungle with the usual Paddington chaos!
More details are HERE.
Brew has an extra night of live music on Friday.
The Market Street venue hosts Connor's Birthday with Music by Smithy.
The Bar Manager's birthday will be accompanied by the amazing musical talents of a new performer in Brew, Smithy.
Also, Brew's Lazy Sunday Afternoon Session this weekend comes from The Jo Baldwin Project.
More details are HERE.
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