Sunday, 3rd July

Street Entertainment

St George's Square and surrounding area

12 noon to 4pm

Free

More free fun and frolics for all the family.

This event is supported by Welcome To Yorkshire.

Sunday, 3rd July

Ada Kan: Piano Recital

St Thomas's Church, Heptonstall, nr Hebden Bridge

1pm to 2pm

£6 (£4) £1 for under 26s

Works by De Falla, Debussy, Mompou, Albéniz and
Gershwin

Ada Kan graduated at the Royal Academy of Music and completed her Masters Degree at the Royal Northern College of Music with Paul Roberts. She won the European Piano Teachers Association competition and has since performed as an EPTA artist in venues in London and Manchester.

For this recital she presents a programme of Spanish or Hispanicinfluenced music - performed with great passion and bravura, and always with an instinctive feel for the complex rhythms of Spanish dance.

Sunday, 3rd July

Wringing Words out of our Watershed

St Michael's Hall, Mytholmroyd

2pm to 3pm approx

£3

Multi-award-winning writer Char March is currently Writer-in-Residence for the Pennine Watershed - a great job which involves her walking over the moors with lots of different groups, and being inspired, scared, moved, soaked, blown away and enriched by our amazing moorland landscape. For this year's Festival, Char has been working with young skateboarders and young-at-heart residents to help them write about the actual moorland watershed and watersheds in their lives. Come along to a heartwarming and exhilarating performance of their work and be inspired to try your own hand at Watershed writing! In association with Pennine Prospects and supported by Calderdale Council. (Photo: Steve Morgan)

Sunday, 3rd July

Nicola Meecham: Piano Recital

St Thomas's Church, Heptonstall, nr Hebden Bridge

8pm to 10pm

£10 (£8) £2 for under 26s

Tchaikovsky Dumka, Op.59, Feuillet d'Album, Op.19 no 3, Nocturne, Op.19 no 4, Humoresque, Op.10 no 2, Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.80
Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (arr Borwick)
Debussy Preludes book 2, General Lavine - eccentric; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune, Feux d'artifice
Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op.22

With her playing described as 'sensational', British pianist Nicola Meecham has been gaining international acclaim from critics and listeners alike since the release of her recent CD on the SOMM label. Nicola is a former prize-winner at the Royal Academy of Music and has performed in all the major halls, including the Wigmore and the QEH. She has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and performed all over Europe. For this concert she presents a beautifully balanced programme of some of the greatest Romantic and Post-Romantic piano music. What better way to round off the Piano Weekend?

www.nicolameecham.co.uk

Sunday, 3rd July

Monique Roffey

Hebden Bridge Library

8pm to 9.30pm

£8 (£6)

Fiction Ticket Offer: see Sarah Hall, Monique Roffey and Val McDermid for £20 (£15)

Roffey has published two novels, Sun Dog and The White Woman on the Green Bicycle which was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize.

Her memoir, With the Kisses of his Mouth describes a love affair, a dramatic break-up and what happened next - a sexual odyssey. ' a fresh look at love, lust and longing in the 21st century' (Daisy Goodwin)

Guardian review of With the Kisses of his Mouth: "It is funny. It speeds along. It has magic at its heart ’Äì that indefinable sliver of human warmth and hope that all the best, most searching memoirs seem to have." (7th June 2011)

moniqueroffey.co.uk

Sunday, 3rd July

Tim O'Connor Band

Tim O'Connor, Paul Daly and David Thom with a guest appearance from Calder Valley Voices

The Trades Club, Holme Street, Hebden Bridge

8pm to 10.30pm

£9 (£7)

Three musicians creating a rich, diverse musical texture from contemporary original folk songs to Irish tunes. Strong melodic lyrical songs from Tim O'Connor, magical and emotional flute playing from Paul Daly, all held together with the inspirational guitar and mandolin playing of Dave Thom. A meeting of musical minds set to lift the heart and get the feet tapping.

www.timoconnor.co.uk/irishfolk