This year sees Forte School of Music celebrating their 21st annual festival and we are delighted that they have chosen to return to Acapela after the success of last year’s event. The festival is a great opportunity for students to perform in front of an audience (many for the first time) and is a fun and exciting time for students to experience the environment of a professional music concert.
The festival consists of a number of concerts throughout the day, with performers of all ages playing a variety of instruments. Please book tickets for the concert you wish to attend – if you know someone who is performing on the day, please ask them for the concert time that they are performing in, to ensure that you get to see them play.
The venue will be videoing each concert in full, and ticket prices include a copy of the concert you purchase tickets for
Concert times 10.00am, 11.00am, 12.00pm, 1.00pm and 2.00pm.
Car Park – VERY IMPORTANT
The venue is currently in a dispute with the Lewis Arms concerning car parking. This dispute is over allowing our staff and studio visitors access and parking rights, however we have always advised concert visitors not to park in the car park leaving this for the pub clients. PLEASE NOTE IF YOU PARK IN THE CAR PARK YOU WILL RECEIVE A PARKING NOTICE (THEY HAVE CAMERAS INSTALLED) AND IT WILL COST YOU £60! So do not spoil your visit – do not park in the car park.
Please park with consideration for our neighbours in the streets surrounding the venue – Please do not park:
- on kerbs,
- across resident’s drives,
- Opposite the T Junction next to Acapela (THIS IS ILLEGAL AND YOU MAY GET A TICKET FROM THE POLICE)
- within 10m of the T junction next to the venue (THIS IS ILLEGAL AND YOU MAY GET A TICKET FROM THE POLICE)
- or in front of the dropped kerbs at the start of Penmaes.
The area around the venue may be congested so please do park further afield from our front door, you will find it less busy! If possible please come by taxi or consider sharing cars.
Book a table for pre-concert dining
Acapela Studio provides pre-concert dining between 6.00pm and 7.30pm from our pizza oven. To view the current menu visit here.
Please purchase your concert tickets first before booking a table. We will not accept any table bookings that do not have a corresponding ticket purchase.
Then return to the event page to book your table, by selecting the date of your event, number of diners and time you require table. The times shown are the only vacancies left. Please complete your email and phone number as this is required to ensure your table is allocated. You will receive confirmation of your booking by email and text.
If on the date you have chosen no tables are available - no times will be shown and the booking system will revert you back to todays date - PLEASE ENSURE YOU BOOK THE CORRECT DATE!
PLEASE NOTE THE VENUE RELIES ON THE INCOME FROM DINING TO ENSURE WE CAN BOOK ALL THE GREAT ACTS PERFORMING.
Income from the provision of pizzas is very important to the venue and if you have booked a table it is a requirement that all people sat at tables order food - a salad alternative is available to pizzas. Please do ensure that all individuals will be ordering on your table - if this is not the case please cancel your table so others who are looking to dine can do so. Our apologies to raise this but recently we have had many tables (some very large) where less than 50% of those sat at tables have ordered food. Financially this is a real problem to the sustainability of the venue.
- All seating at tables must purchase a pizza - so please do not book a table if everyone is not eating.
- Please ensure that you arrive 10 minutes before the time slot allocated to order your pizzas prior to your booking time.
- Tables not seated within 15 minutes of the allocated time may be lost and allocated to other audience members wishing to order pizzas.
- If you wish to book a table for 6 or more please email info@acapela.co.uk
Please note that all of our pizzas are made fresh to order and cooked in an authentic wood-fired oven. It may take up to 45 minutes to be served during busy periods.
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO BOOK A TABLE YOU CAN STILL ORDER PIZZAS ON THE NIGHT (USUALLY ON BUSY NIGHTS NO LATER THAN 7.15PM) AND WE WILL SERVE THEM TO YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE SAT IN THE VENUE - IN A PIZZA BOX.