GWENT is heading for a bumper weekend with thousands of people expected to attend a host of events.
This year’s Caerleon Festival, which marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Welsh fantasy writer Arthur Machen, continues today at 8pm with a literary evening.
Among the festival’s highlights are a writers’ forum at the Priory Hotel tomorrow and Machen recitations at his birthplace in the High Street with Goff Morgan.
Then on Sunday morning a Machen Walk will leave from Llansor Mill and a guitar recital will take place at Llanhennock Village Hall at 7.30pm.
In Pontypool the carnival parade, which this year takes on the theme of ‘Kings and Queens’ of past and present will be led by carnival queen Natasha Williams, 16, of Blaenavon.
It will follow its original route and leave from the top floor of the Riverfront Car Park at 1pm tomorrow.
The Abertillery Blues Festival returns to Abertillery Park with two days of music featuring Mud Morganfield and Lucky Peterson from 7pm tonight and midday tomorrow. Other performers include Grainne Duffy, Henry’s Funeral Shoe and Marcus Bonfanti.
In Monmouth at 9am on Saturday Unite members will arrive in Monmouth in the Welsh leg of the Land’s End to John O’Groats cycle ride in support of Help for Heroes before continuing on to the Midlands.
On Sunday SARA holds its annual open day at the Lifeboat Station, Beachley in Chepstow between 11am and 4pm.
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