Rye Bay Scallop Week Saturday 20 February – Sunday 28 February 2016 Over Twenty Restaurants to Serve Scallops! Scallop Week 2016 is nearly here and a huge number of restaurants in and around Rye are eagerly looking forward to this year’s event! The Kings Head Inn have their first Scallop Week this year with three delicious dishes; … Continue reading A Week of Scallops
Tag: Rye Singers
Rye Singers provides the setting for this group of Rye’s Own articles, where buildings, people and events meet in the magazine’s record of the district. Among the pieces gathered here are “Christmas in Rye”, “John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004”, and “East Guldeford Church Ryesingers Carol Concert / Service”, each adding its own detail to the story. Read together, the articles show how public events and private memories become part of the town’s shared story.
Christmas in Rye
What a marvellous programme Roger Crouch, the event co-ordinator, has put on for the 2011 Rye Christmas Festival.It all kicks off at 10am. on Friday 2 December with a Rye Country Market at the Community specifically targeting items for Christmas.
John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004
Vocal parts of a lost Mass, written for the Catholic Church in Rye by the composer John Bath, have been found a week after his own Requiem was held there. A significant figure in both the church, where he was choirmaster and organist in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Rye Singers, he wrote hundreds … Continue reading John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004
East Guldeford Church Ryesingers Carol Concert / Service
Ryesingers have been performing in the Carol Service at East Guldeford Church on the Sunday before Christmas for over thirty years. Many local people come to fill this lovely building to overflowing for the occasion.