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Walton Arts Festival 2026


Inspiring Harmonies at the Walton Arts Festival
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
Sep 8, 20241 min read


What are you in the Market for?
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
Sep 6, 20241 min read


Rock Around the Clock - Twice!
Rock never died, if anything it’s just waking up. And you can kick off almost 48 hours of rock music on Friday, September 20 at 9.00pm when The Landed play a session at the Victory. Ever popular locally, in the words of their website they ‘somehow manage to mix the new wave edge of The Police with Fleetwood Mac’s sense of melody, the harmonic choruses and homegrown feel of a group like Noah And The Whale with the symphonic rock of ELO’. Says it all. On Saturday the 21st at 1.
Sep 4, 20242 min read


Sunday on the Naze – fun for all the family
What a way to spend a Sunday morning! And it all kicks off at 10am, Sunday the 22nd September. It’s all happening on the ground, in the air and everywhere in between. The in between bit is two sessions of parachute making before all the participants see their favourite cuddly toy fly sedately (we hope) from the top of Naze Tower to the ground. Parachuting Teddy Bears first session starts at 11am with a follow up at 1pm. The teds will be flying at 12.15pm and 2.15pm. But y
Aug 23, 20242 min read


The sand between your toes
If it’s happening Between the Tides there’s plenty of opportunity to get the sand between your toes at the Walton Arts Festival, 20th-22nd September. You can start with Saturday morning the Sandcastle Competition when there are prizes for the best sandcastle or sand sculpture. Organised by Frinton Rotary, you can register from 9.30am from at M&M’s beach hut 100 on The Leas promenade and begin building at 10am. Judging is at noon and prizegiving is at 12.30pm. Children und
Aug 23, 20242 min read


Not a rocker? There’s more on offer at Walton Arts Festival
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
Aug 23, 20242 min read


LOCAL STORY TELLERS & WRITERS FEATURE AT WALTON ARTS FESTIVAL
Local writers from Tendring Community Writers Group are featuring throughout the event packed programme at Walton Arts Festival 20-22 September 2024. They kick off their activities with a book launch of an anthology of stories about Tendring’s coast, including poems, fiction and historic non fiction at 5pm at The Nose Bookshop, 28 Newgate Street. Saturday at 11.15 it’s Seaside Storytime with readings for children 12 years and under at The Library, Walton High Street with M
Aug 22, 20242 min read


Sunday on the Naze is up in the air - literally!
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
Jul 31, 20241 min read


Seaside Story Time - Saturday 21st September
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.
Jul 31, 20241 min read


Sandcastle Competition on Saturday the 21st September!
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
Jul 31, 20241 min read


Crazy Classics for the Kids
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
Jul 31, 20241 min read
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