Saturday 21st June
5.30pm, Donations in the hat.

Live music and laughter from the Kilkenny Katz and friends. Support the band here:
https://shrubshallkett.bandcamp.com/album/the-kilkenny-katz-live-the-kat-fiddle

Open Folk Music Session
Thursday 26th June
1pm–3pm, Free.

Ray and Amanda Smith & friends are hosting a monthly open folk session for acoustic musicians and singers on the 4th Thursday of the month from 1pm - 3pm. Come and join in or sit and listen. Ray and Amanda will be performing at The Nose on Friday 11th April.

Walton Backwaters
Friday 20th June, 5pm-7pm, Free
Exhibition Opening, all welcome.

Not a Camera Club photographers are showing images that capture the special landscape of the Walton Backwaters. Starting from an invitation from the Naze Protection Society to document the area of of site of scientific interest (SSSI) Hamford Water that The Naze protects, the images show the tidal inlet, salt marshes and creeks and how they are used by wildlife and people for work rest and play.

Photograph by Sarah Bone.

Martin Newell’s Late Breakfast.
Saturday 28th June
11am-1pm, Free.
Stories and Music from The Home Recording Handbook
+ Breakfast Offer: Copy of the Book plus a Coffee and Croissant for £15.

“This is not a home recording handbook,” says Martin Newell of his unhandily-titled The Home Recording Handbook. Instead, it’s the long-overdue completion of a book that was begun and then lost in 1983. It’s a set of salty anecdotes from a life working in pop music. It’s a broadside to the music business. It’s a short inventory of inexpensive musical tools. It’s a ‘when not to’ and ‘why not to’ rather than a ‘how to’. It’s a dispatch from the sidelines and a love letter to a popular song. It’s a brief guide to the pleasures and perils of recording music at home, by the musician, songwriter and founder of the cult English lo-fi group, the Cleaners from Venus, Martin Newell – a leading figure in the history of cassette culture and godfather of DIY music-making. It does happen to contain some tips on home recording. But it’s probably not a handbook.

National Dish
Sunday 29th June, 1.30pm
Meal Adults £15, Children £9

Join us celebrating the food of the world with two migrant families from RAMA (Refugee asylum seeker and Migrant action) when they cook their favourite national dish for us. Come for lunch and taste some delicious home cooked food and meet new people. Open from 1pm, and lunch for around 1.30pm. Booking essential as limited space.

Walton Memory Map

The Walton Memory Map is a new illustrated map of Walton-on-the-Naze. It is designed to show the shops and businesses trading in 2025. It is a memory map as it records the names and trades of past Walton shops and attractions. It mainly includes places in living memory and has been compiled from people’s memories, so not every shop has been recorded. We hope the map will be a conversation starter and a way of remembering the unique, independent businesses that have made up the town before. The shop listings have been compiled by Alan Hillier and young and old Waltonians and visitors. The illustrations are by local artist Greg Lashmar using photographs from Putmans archive. It has been produced by The Nose Bookshop and funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The map will be available from The Nose bookshop and from shops and venues around the town centre and the Naze. The map drawings and research will be display at The Nose throughout April. Thank you to all those who shared their memories.