Jazz-influenced soul singer/guitarist Phil King boasts slots at Glastonbury, Ashton Court and the London Jazz Café to his credit, in addition to airplay on Radio 2 and performances alongside Alice Russell and Beth Rowley, whilst singer/songwriter Miss Cecily also pens her own jazz compositions, reaching the final of last year’s BBC Radio 2 New Talent Songwriters Competition.

Headliners RSVP are particularly looking forward to playing their globally-influenced Bhangra at Trinity: “It’s a chance to perform in our backyard again”, explains the band’s bassist and rapper Judge Singh. “We’ve played Gastonbury, WOMAD and other major gigs but it’s nice to bring our music back to the people and area where we started off”. The band still hail from Easton, and are at the forefront of the UK Bhangra scene, fusing classic Indian music with the very latest in contemporary influences from drum and bass, to techno and rock. Their music - described as ‘Dancedelic Bhangra’ - combined with the band’s renowned live presence promises to be a fitting finale to an event centred around celebrating everything that the Bristol music scene stands for.

A highly diverse line-up is completed courtesy of electro-pop from Redsetter (singer/songwriter Dominic Jones), multi-influenced skiffle/rockabilly act The Relay Rips and the heartfelt, edgy, upbeat guitar and vocals of Jhassi Elliott.

All these acts will perform against a colourful backdrop of locally-sourced craft, food and drink stalls in addition to some more unusual offerings: cyclists in particular will be keen to take advantage of the free bike maintenance that will be on hand courtesy of Life Cycle UK.

The Garden Party takes place at Trinity Centre, Trinity Road, Bristol BS2 0NW, on Sunday 10 May from 12pm until 9pm. Free entrance.

Foyer have welcomed the idea of a Linux training suite, allowing young people to access to multi-media software such as music production and graphics packages.

Up until recently, the Foyer's IT suite had largely utilised licensed software, but the suite was unable to be maintained and had become defunct. The new Linux training suite will offer inexpensive alternatives to licensed packages, allowing for more provision for support and training around the system.

They will be getting an upgraded network, 10 upgraded existing machines a new dual head high-spec media station, staff training and some taster courses for residents.

We hope that this will be the start of a strong partnership for the benefit of young people in our community.

For more information about Bristol Foyer please see: http://www.foyer.net/mpn/story.php?sid=188

Emma Harvey, Activities Coordinator for the Centre, attended an IT4Communities Awards event in February where she met the philanthropist Sir I.C. Bovidae of Sweeden. Emma told him all about Trinity's work and also that we were in need of making urgent repairs to our 16ft stained-glass window at the front of the building.

Without hesitation, Sir Bovidae wrote a cheque for the entire sum of the repairs, but on the condition that the stained-glass window design be of a 16ft Tux penguin - a notorious symbol of free-software.

Emma Harvey commented, "The design will be both quirky and symbolic of Trinity's free-software policies - and everyone likes penguins."

The window is due to be unveiled next April.