JULIE EDWARDS AND KEVIN DEARDEN QUINTET

Thursday 13 July 10pm - Late

Jazz Café in The Pavilion Gardens £15

They had considered themselves all but retired from performing, but, following the pandemic, it seems that Julie and Kevin have happily returned to the jazz scene. It was the turn of the century when they originally teamed up to form their synergistic partnership, several years into their professional careers, following their studies at Leeds College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, respectively.

‘Fast becoming one of the top attractions on the jazz circuit’ Jazz UK

Julie Edwards Vocals

Kevin Dearden Saxophones

Andrzej Baranek Keys

Paul Baxter Double Bass

Tim Franks on Drums

Colin Grant

Friday 14 July 10am – 11am

Pavilion Arts Centre £12

I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives

‘I’m black, so you don’t have to be,’ Colin Grant’s Uncle Castus used to tell him. For Colin, born in Britain to Jamaican parents, things were supposed to be different. If he worked hard and became a doctor, he was told, his race would become invisible. The reality turned out to be very different. This is a memoir told through a series of intimate intergenerational portraits: Ethlyn, disappointed by working-class life in Luton; Bageye, a small-time criminal with a violent temper; Selma, who refashions herself as an African princess; and Percy, estranged from his family through his own pride.

Dame Sarah Connolly And Joseph Middleton

Friday 14 July 11.15am – 12.15pm

St John’s Church £25, Balcony £20

F Schubert Herbst, D945; An den

Mond in einer Herbstnacht, D614

R Schumann Im Herbste

J Brahms Herbstgefühl, Op. 48/7

F Mendelssohn Herbstlied, Op. 84/2; Im Herbst Op. 9 No. 5

G Fauré Automne, Op. 18/3; Chant d’automne, Op. 5 No. 2

C Debussy De Rêve (from Proses Lyriques); Beau Soir

R Quilter Autumn Evening (from Four Songs, Op. 14)

P Warlock Autumn Twilight

A Copland The Chariot (from 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson)

Dame Sarah Connolly is recognised as one of the finest singers of her generation, with an opera and concert repertoire ranging from Purcell and Handel to Poulenc and Britten. Following her sell-out Buxton appearance with Joseph Middleton two years ago, she returns for the Autumn segment of his Four Seasons recital series (see Tuesday 11 July, page 37).

Jeremy Deller

Friday 14 July 12.30pm – 1.30pm

Buxton Opera House £15

Art is Magic

Art Is Magic is Turner Prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller’s attempt to connect the key works of his career with the art, pop music, film, politics and history that have inspired them. These include his inflatable Stonehenge, his miners’ strike film The Battle of Orgreave, bats, and hen harriers pecking out the eyes of a Tory MP (featured in his mural against grouse shooting created for the Venice Biennale). His projects, such as We’re Here Because We’re Here (2016) and the documentary Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984–1992 (2019), have influenced the conventional map of contemporary art.

Friday 14 July

Daniel Finkelstein

Friday 14 July 4pm – 5pm Pavilion Arts Centre £12

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir

Lord Finkelstein’s maternal grandfather is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews. After moving his family to Amsterdam, Germany invaded Holland. Before long, the family was rounded up and sent to Bergen-Belsen. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, the family of Daniel’s father, Ludwik, was rounded up by the communists and sent to do hard labour in a Siberian gulag. Political commentator Daniel Finkelstein has written a powerful memoir exploring his parents’ devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War.

GENO WASHINGTON AND THE RAM JAM BAND / SAD CAFÉ

Friday 14 July 7.15pm – 9.45pm (including 30 mins interval) Buxton Opera House £20 - £33

Catch two giants from the 60s and 70s perform in a not-to-be-missed double header.

Geno Washington’s status as the undisputed ‘King of Soul’ was cemented forever by Kevin Rowland and Dexy’s Midnight Runners in the 1980s, with the World-wide No. 1 smash hit single ‘Geno’. It paid homage to the great man himself and is still played regularly today on national radio and at Geno’s live gigs both before and after shows.

The second set sees Sad Café perform their catalogue of great songs including Every Day Hurts and My Oh My, both from their Top Ten album Facades .