A Week of Scallops

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; Pan-Seared Scallops with Lime, Chilli and Coriander, Scallop and Prawn Continue reading A Week of Scallops

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.

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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 of pieces, the Mass of St. Anthony of Padua being Opus 467; it was found by Sheila Miller who remembered it in the days after his funeral. A search is now on for the part scored for the organ. Continue reading John Bath, Composer and Conductor, 1915-2004