Ethiopian krar player and singer Haymanot Tesfa visits St Leonards-on-Sea for a one-off performance on the beach next to Goat Ledge on Tuesday 30 July. She talks to Jude Montague ahead of her visit.
50 years ago at the site of the current Cove Pub, there once lived a Folk Club. In the upstairs room at the Fairlight Cove Hotel, every Saturday evening from 1 December 1973, the Hayloft Folk Club would play host to many well-known folk artists of the day. Bill Pocock and Steve Green are excited to announce a revival of the Hayloft Folk Club.
The completion of the much delayed Queensway Gateway Road may now be in sight, though East Sussex County Council has decided to exclude Sea Change Sussex from the final works. Nick Terdre reports.
Photographer JJ Waller documents this summer’s St Leonards Festival, held on Saturday 13 July, in his inimitable street photographer style.
Battle Festival will be holding a high-profile Jazz Day on the afternoon and evening of Saturday 20 July showcasing five fascinating and very different bands featuring some of the UK’s finest jazz musicians, writes Dominika Hicks.
Somerset may have Glastonbury, but a care home in Hastings held its own mini music festival for residents and their families, writes Lisa Pettifer.
Puccini’s Tosca is beloved of opera fans: it contains several timeless, perfect arias, and is one of the most frequently staged. Why not? It’s a classic story of political upheaval, corruption, love, jealousy, rivalry, and ultimate death (especially death) and all the action takes place over twenty-four hours. Victoria Kingham found Becoming Tosca, staged this year by Prologue Opera, a fascinating adaptation of the original.
PLANTS large and small will be on show this month when experts bring their enthusiasm for cacti and succulents to the community hub of Alexandra Park greenhouse. Report by Lynda Foy, photos by Colin Foy.
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