If you love listening to beautiful songs sung with rich harmonies, then make a date to hear the local choirs and a cappella singing we have lined up for you on the 21st and 22nd September at the Walton Arts Festival. It’s all free and offered with the kind support of Emmanuel Church who are great supporters of the Festival. Tendring Male Voice Choir On Saturday between 5 and 6pm you can hear the Tendring Male Voice Choir sing part of their extensive repertoire at Emmanuel Chu

Preserves, bakery, handmade goods, recycled goodies, music, activities for the youngsters….? Well, it will all be here in Walton’s Millennium Square for a special Between the Tides Market on Saturday, September 21st from 10am-4pm. Expect around a dozen market stalls selling artisan and handmade items. And by artisan we mean local producers who have made all their own produce, whether it’s a jar of jam or a cupcake. The Festival market starts at 10.00 am and goes on all day

We’ll almost guarantee, there will be music for your taste at the Walton Arts Festival, 20-22nd September. In a purely chronological order, here are some of the alternatives to ‘mainstream’ music. First off we have some smooth jazz from J2Z at East Coast 5 on Friday night from 8.00pm. A lively, local jazz trio, they play your classic jazz standards and bring the ‘jazz lounge’ style to more modern numbers from movie themes to soul. Great easy listening. Alternatively at t

Between 10am and 2pm East Anglian Kite Flyers will putting on one of their spectacular Kite Displays. You never know quite what might be flying above your head. It could be a tiger, or an astronaut or a whale, you’ll just have to wait and see. Then there will be two sessions of Parachuting Teddies. At a £5 workshop children can design and make their parachutes for their teddies who will then be parachuted from the top of the Naze Tower (the teddies, not the children). Works

For some quality time for the kids on Saturday there is the Seaside Storytime in Walton Library between 11.30am - 1.00pm. Local children’s authors Lucy Mitchell (‘The Naughty Seagull’) and Caroline Cross (‘Sand Between my Toes’) will be reading from their books. This event is organised by Tendring Community Writers.

There’s a Sandcastle Competition, but it doesn’t have to be a sandcastle, it can be anything sculpted in sand. It kicks off with registration from 9.30 on Saturday morning, 21st September, at M&M’s beach hut 100 The Leas, at bottom of the slope at the end of Woodberry Way, Walton. You can begin building from 10am until judging at noon. Prizes are for the best designs, any sculptures, not just castles. Entries can be individuals or teams of up to six, but children under 12 mus

Four whacky classical musicians make classical music fun and accessible to children in a concert coming to Walton as part of the Walton Arts Festival at All Saints Church on Saturday, September 21st. Check them out Graffiti Classics on Facebook and here's a video of them in action. Graffiti Classics is a world-renowned act that is wickedly funny. Their ‘playground proms’ bring an interactive workshop-style performance with fantastic flair, finesse and frivolity that enables k