Culture
Lucia’s nemesis signs
Guy Fraser-Sampson visited The Rye Bookshop to sign copies of his Mapp and Lucia sequels, including the final one 'Au Reservoir' which has not necessarily been welcomed by all EF Benson fans, but he explains his reasons
Spring clean unearths rare photo
A major office spring clean at the National Churches Trust led to the discovery of rare archive photo of Winchelsea's church.
Proceeding into the festival
Rye Arts Festival kicks off with a carnival procession and a Cajun band, swiftly followed by the Duke of Wellington, a mini version of the Battle of Waterloo, a dead banker on Dungeness beach, three pianists in two days in St Mary's, pop-up studios and exhibitions and some 60 events in all over the next two weeks
Classical arts at the festival
With the Rye Arts Festival almost upon us, Andy Stuart gives an overview of some of the classical music events to enjoy
Folk at RAF – a family affair!
Two prestigious and award-winning folk duos are just part of the line-up of stars for the forthcoming Rye Arts Festival. Here, Andy Stuart gives the first preview of festival performances
Japanese Butoh dance in Rye
Japanese dance, fascinating, different and exquisite. Ray Prewer reports on a new experience at Rye Studio School
All that jazz
For four days the town came, almost literally, to a halt as it became the international centre for the best of Jazz and blues music. With so many events, both free and ticketed, there was something for almost everyone. Rye News has an overview of the festival
Floods of musical entertainment
The School Creative Centre, inhabited by ARRCC and the New Road Artists, will become one of the Rye Arts Festival venues on September 19, when it hosts the David Flood Trio
A jazzy overview
Four days of non-stop music and Heidi Foster recounts a personal view of her tour through some of the events