Newsflash .......... 

Captain Jack joins Hawthorn
Wales' premiere covers band joins our office. After a successful launch January 2010, the band is already re-booked at every venue. 

Listen to lead singer KT Now imagine this with a band of brilliant musicians who are able to reproduce these sounds and harmonies across every musical spectrum from Rock to all-time classics!

Spectacular new additional format launching mid 2010 featuring Sean Maloney with the band for selected dates.
Watch K.T. in action with Sean

Ram Jam
This brilliant 2 man showgroup are now available following cruises and session work with international studios & bands...... The rock twist that they put on Blondie / Madonna / Cheesy songs has to be seen

They are so new that we haven't yet had chance to include them on our managed / duo pages.

Have a Listen!!!!
Hanging On The Telephone
Express Yourself
Funkified

Chris Needs Roadshow
Chris has a limited number of dates available (with supporting acts/s)especially for social clubs in 2010. Contact us for details and diary updates as the calendar is filling rapidly!

Watch out for our managed acts on local radio stations in 2010. Any act that has a CD to promote through this medium, contact us  

Attic Band
New video footage, check Band Page!!!!

Local Agents
Rumour has it that we have 'joined forces' with local agents to create a monopoly. This story, although not true has again been spread by the office who has most to gain by appearing respectable by claiming to work with us! Please take with another large pinch of salt!

Ceri Dupree
Contact us for details 2010. Watch a show reel

News & Tours Page
How can you possibly beat some of these touring bands and duos that are with us in 2010! It seems that we are almost the last office in Wales to take the risk with touring acts.

Killers Of Leon - The best of today's live music featuring a tribute to The Killers & The Kings Of Leon (by arrangement with Tribute World). Listen to "Sex On Fire, Human from these clips of the real bands.

Local Bands web site
We have set up an independent web site to showcase local bands. We have published tracks and videos "warts & all" at the request of band venues that we service for them to get a more accurate picture of the local scene.
Click this link to visit the site.  
Tracks and bands are being added on a regular basis.

Stan Stennett chooses Hawthorn
The legendary Stan Stennett has appointed Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd as his agent. We will be involved with selected theatre appearances throughout Wales & England featuring a variety of line-ups. Shows that have sold out in 2009 include Swansea Grand Theatre (re-booked), St Davids Hall, Cardiff (re-booked), Fairfield Hall, Croydon (re-booked). More details of these shows, together with details of 2010/11 Pantomime dates will be published shortly.

The aims of this site
This site is aimed at all sectors of the light entertainment industry, from social clubs, hotels, pubs to national holiday chains, corporate clients, cruise bookers and more. This is why we have created separate divisions such as Main Event, Tributes.biz and Spiral Marketing. 

Welcome to Hawthorn
Neville & Anita Williams, having a combined experience of over 70 years in the entertainment industry, formed the Hawthorn Organisation in 1988.

Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd. are Wales' largest entertainment agency group & one of the UK's major touring offices specialising in the following markets; corporate and private clients, holiday centres, social clubs, pubs & hotel lounges, night-clubs, alternative music & comedy venues to national cabaret venues, theatres, universities and colleges with an impressive list of clients that grows each month.

The agency also operates a management division to supply acts for tours, cruises and overseas work.

Hawthorn is also able to supply over 2,500 local acts based in Wales, Midlands and the West Country.

We also have a network of local representatives, together with a national network of offices that represent us, allowing us to coordinate the schedules for the many touring acts that we employ.

Due to the current demand for tributes, we have established a separate division called Tributes.biz which will lead enquiries to our tributes page.

The following names are a selection of clients who regularly use our services:

AES / Alcoa / Alexon / Ameco / Arts Council Wales / Asda / Ategi / Avana Bakeries / Bangaw Television / BBC / Bibby Sterilin / Biomet / Borg Warner / Bourne Leisure / Brains Brewery / Bridgend County Borough Council / British Gas / Butlins / Cambria Mobel / Carcraft / Cardiff International Arena / Cardiff Lawn Tennis Club / Carmarthen Breweries / Chubb Fire Ltd / Club Stewards Union / Consortuim Group / Coppice Alupack / Corpdata / Creation Developement Trust / Discovery Inns / Dunraven Windows / EM Event Management / Environmental Health & Trading Standards / Fastrac Solutions / GE Capital / GQ Parachutes / General Electrics / Georgia Pacific / Giroflex / Glampac Ltd / Glamorgan Telecom / Gulf Resort Hotel (Oman) / Gwent Police / Host Group / HTV / Howells Leisure / Ikon / Inco Europe / International Management / Jamont UK / Kautex / Kraft Foods / Law Society / Link Connect / Lloyds TSB / Lucas Automotive / Luminar / Macro / Mainline Computers / Merthyr Fire Service / Nathaniel Car Sales / Northern Leisure / PC World / Pegasus Group / Pendragon Furniture / Pontypridd Town Council / Premier Dawn Ltd / Revitalise / RJ Design / RTL Solicitors / RCT Borough Council / Richard Keen Insurance / Rieta Scragg Ltd / Rizzla / Royal Mail / S4C / Schroeder Leasing / Scorpio Inns / Siemens Finance / Sony / South Wales Argus / South Wales Echo / South Wales Police / South Wales Transformers / Swansea RFC / TED UK / Telco / Tesco / The Show Team / Unison / Vale Holiday Parks / Valley Taverns / Warners / Welsh Brewers / Wilkinsons Stores / Wrekin Construction / Wyse Leasing / Zebra Online

Other types of entertainment

Detailed list available on request Contact us for details
* Actors and TV Personalities (contact us for details)
* After Dinner Speakers (contact us for details)
* Casinos (contact us for details)
* Classical Music & Traditional Bands (Contact us for details)
* Circus, Street and Outdoor events (contact us for details)
* Children's Entertainers (contact us for details)
* Dancers (contact us for details)
* Disco's & Roadshows (contact us for details)
* Ethnic & Cultural Music (contact us for details)
* Hen and Stag Shows (contact us for details)
* Hypnotists (contact us for details)
* Impressionists (contact us for details)
* Lookalikes (see Tributes)
* Magic & Illusion (contact us for details)
* Murder, Mystery Events (contact us for details)
* Production, Package & Theatre shows (Contact us for details)
* Product Launches (contact us for details)
* Themed Events (contact us for details)
* Speciality Acts (contact us for details)
* Ventriloquists (see comedy)
* Wedding Entertainment

...to name but a few!!!! Contact us about ANY act

Main Event Promotions is a brand that mainly caters for the corporate sector, together with the development of area franchises, which we believe will form a large part of our expansion as a trading name of Hawthorn Entertainment Ltd.

For some events, why not let Baron Von Grindle, for example, greet your guests or clients, as well as Dean Taylor as Little Britain, Borat, Ali G, Austin Powers or Ozzy Osbourne. 

Another favourite is the amazing actress / comedienne Karen Dalton who takes the part of Nana from The Catherine Tate Show to mingle again with your clients or guests using all the choice phrases from the show. (This video clip is from the real Catherine Tate show and does not feature Karen Dalton, it only shows the character that she portrays. - This may contain offensive material).

Tribute.biz is a separate division to cater for the ever expanding tribute market.

Spiral Marketing is our brand for Media Promotion, Corporate Branding, Design Services, Product Sales, Press Releases, Public Relations and much more.

2010 Pantomime

Our 2010 South Wales production is ‘Dick Whittington’
Go to our
Pantomime page for more details

Artiste Availabilities
For this weekend's availabilities in our geographical area, Contact Joanne Garrett at our office by telephone 01656 662835 or email as these dates change by the hour

Tours
Contact us for a full list of 2010 touring acts for South Wales

Quality acts required at all times.
Contact us and use the artiste registration form, please note that you are only legally required to complete sections marked with a red asterisk.