We are thrilled to be hosting Horatio Clare this November to discuss his new book 'Your Journey Your Way - How to Make the Mental Health System Work For You' (Penguin Books).

A highly acclaimed bestselling Author, Broadcaster and Lecturer whose very many works cover travel, memoir, nature and children's fiction, Horatio Clare grew up on a remote hill farm in the Black Mountains - an idyllic but isolating childhood that has informed all his writing since. His first book 'Running For The Hills' documented a beautifully almost lawless childhood in the Welsh hills including the breakdown of his parents marriage and their subsequent divorce with an honesty that startled his own family.

Whatever his subject, Horatio's writing is lyrical, immediate and brutally honest. His 2021 memoir 'Heavy Light' - aptly subtitled 'a journey through madness, mania and healing' is the candid often shocking account of his own breakdown at the end of 2018 and his subsequent sectioning and treatment at Wakefield Hospital.

'Your Journey Your Way - How to Make The Mental Health System Work For You' is it's natural follow-up - a deeply researched and visceral exploration of the current mental health system that asks serious questions about whether it is working and how things might change.

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Jazz infused Delta Blues? Hot dang! Paul Keddle and his cool as cats band of musical men assemble to bring you a foot-tapping, hip-swinging, scrumptious Festival weekend closer to remember

What are Jazz Weekend Sunday afternoons made for? Bella Blue of course. Join us for delectable Jazz and Blues from one of the smokiest soul-filled voices around. An outside bar, sun-streaked skies (?!), and one girl and her Blues guitar celebrating four decades of incredible music in beautiful Brecon

One of the UK's hottest Jazz ensembles led by the gorgeous Susanna Warren bring us an exhilarating feast of sassy Hot Club Jazz, Gipsy, Swing and sooo much more for an absolutely simmering Jazz Saturday evening on the Close

We are thrilled to bring you an exciting new quartet - Blue Haddock - featuring Composer, Improviser and Pianist Rod Paton; Coren Sithers on saxophones; Liz Exell on drums and lan Cooper on bass

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Our Jazz Festival Weekend revelry begins with new Folk Fusion collective Enw

An alt hybrid folk fiesta for your hips, head and heart under the ancient sycamores on the Cathedral green

Brecon resident Grahame Davies reads fom his newly-published Seren volume A Darker Way. This collection of poems and songs traces a hard-won but redemptive path between idealism and irony, failure and faith.

The reading will accompany an exhibition of paintings by Brecon artist Jess Hinsley  whose striking image of Pen y Fan provides the cover picture of the book. 

We will be serving Festive Oggies and Mulled Cider from 4pm…

Jazz infused Delta Blues? Hot dang. Paul Keddle and his cool as cats band

of musical men assemble to bring you a foot-tapping, hip-swinging,

scrumptious 40th Festival weekend closer to remember

Jazz impresario Keith Little brings us deft and dazzling Jazz, Hot Swing and

Dixie with a smattering of Shuffle - all the ingredients required for

an absolutely swinging celebratory afternoon at Cathedral Close

One of the UK's hottest Jazz ensembles led by the gorgeous Susanna

Warren fill the Green with an exhilarating feast of Hot Club Jazz, Gipsy

and Swing for an absolutely simmering Jazz Saturday night under

the ancient sycamores to remember

Our special 40th Jazz Festival celebrations begin with a sultry afternoon of

delicious Jazz and Blues from one of the smokiest, sassiest voices around -

Bella Collins. One girl and her Blues guitar celebrating forty years of

incredible music in beautiful Brecon

In the beautiful setting of Brecon Cathedral Tithebarn…