Fowey’s week long festival opens tomorrow and promises entertainment for all the family including guided walks and river trips.
There is a Van Gogh oil painting workshop in the town hall tomorrow and playing in Fowey Parish Church in the evening is Seth Lakeman who has been nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2019 UK Americana Awards.
There is a chance to have lunch with bestselling author Diane Setterfield at the Fowey Harbour Hotel on Saturday and broadcaster and foreign correspondent Andy Kershaw is back by popular demand with a show based on his autobiography starting at 8pm in Fowey Parish Church.
Sunday’s entertainment includes talks from bestselling authors Diane Setterfield, Patrick Gale and Ruth Ware in the Town Hall; a piano recital by Nina Savicevic in the parish church and Daphne Du Maurier’s Fowey walk.
Events continue through the week with more walks and talks, including Polperro-based author, Raynor Winn, who wrote the top-selling ‘The Salt Path’ and Catherine Alliott who wrote ‘The Cornish Summer’.
The church hosts Truro School’s senior chamber musicians lunchtime recital, the Fowey River Singers and the St Austell Town Brass Band performing ‘A night at the movies’ and a jazz evening. Take a peek at some of the locations which inspired Kenneth Grahame on Wednesday and Friday afternoons on the Wind in the Willows river trip.
The Festival winds up with events including a talk by award winning wildlife cameraman Ian McCarthy and his wife Anne who live in Fowey but fell in love whilst howling to wolves in Montana whilst filming for the BBC.
For more information go to foweyfestival.com.