Celebrating and showcasing the breadth and diversity of Sevenoaks’ arts activities, the 44th annual Sevenoaks Summer Festival will be taking place across the town and beyond for the two weeks from Saturday June 22 to Sunday July 7, continuing a tradition started by Sevenoaks School in 1970. The Stag provides a central focus for the festival, with a packed fortnight of varied and quality entertainment for all ages and tastes Beginning with the ever-popular Long Nose Puppets, making a welcome return as part of ‘Festival Fair’ with 3 daytime performances of Arthur’s Dreamboat. Jeannette Mason and her musicians present an interactive jazz musical romp for older children in the main theatre entitled Boom Boom’s Bow. The day is rounded off in the evening with An Audience with Pam Ayres, the people’s poet. Over the festival period, the main theatre is host to Steeleye Span, Chris Dean’s Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Sevenoaks Philharmonic Society’s celebration of the 60th anniversary our Queen’s Coronation, Sevenoaks Entertainers’ sparkling “One Night Only” Revue, Chance to Dance Maff Brown’s Outside the Box Comedy Club and Bullfrog Productions’ Just So the Musical. Meanwhile, in the Plaza Suite, the Stag Theatre Company presents a double-bill of The Virtuous Burglar and The Fat Lady Sings in Little Grimley as another Two Comedies and Two Courses. Following last year’s success, Dick Barton Special Agent, is another welcome returnee to the festival. Sue Rivers will be performing with Digging Deeper for its Big Funk Night which will have audiences rocking on the Festival’s final Saturday. Also on sale from the Festival Box Office at the Stag are a number of community group events and celebrity concerts, notably Cubana Bop, classical guitarist John Williams and trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins with the Festival Orchestra, all at the Pamoja Hall. Summer Festival brochures are available at the Stag Box Office or online at sevenoaksfestival.org.uk