KEVIN Bryan takes a look at some of the latest music releases.

BUXTON’S Pavilion Gardens hosts its next farmers’ market on Thursday March 1, between 9.30am and 2pm.

FOUR Four Time welcome’s the renowned James Taylor Quartet to Buxton Opera House on Thursday February 23, at 7.30pm.

Plans are well underway for this year’s 19th International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival.

BUXTON Opera House will be the setting for Steve Berkoff’s 20th century classic drama The Trial.

DON’T miss the chance to see one of the Manchester scene’s true legends live on stage, when Peter Hook performs as part of the Four Four Time 2012 Festival of Live Music.

Hopes are high that funding will be secured to ensure a new surface can be installed at the Multi User Games Area in Whaley Bridge.

A NEW production of Lehár’s classic operetta The Merry Widow comes to Buxton next week. The Opera della Luna production will be at Buxton Opera House on Friday February 17, at 7.30pm,

Despite the slow-moving and mortgage-starved housing market of 2011, the year still produced more property millionaires.

A LEADING light of a new generation of singer-songwriters, who has toured with the likes of the Foo Fighters and Tori Amos, will be appearing on stage at the Pavilion Arts Centre on Sunday February 19 as part of the Four Four Time Festival of Live Music.

The obvious starting point is to lay the first row of tiles along one wall.

AFTER five decades in the music business, it’s easy to understand why rock ‘n’ roll legend Joe Brown remains one of the only original British guitarists left standing.

By Nick Jones

PRIZE-WINNING writer Dr Roger Kendall is to present a talk in New Mills on one of the leading poets of the First World War.

A FEAST of family fun at High Peak leisure venues will ensure that no one gets bored during the half-term holidays.

A COMMUNITY choir is inviting people along to join them in singing a much-loved musical classic.

Want to know how to maintain a good relationship with the opposite sex? Buxton Opera House is offering the key to a harmonious relationship, with guidance from the funny hit stage show Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus on Thursday February 16, at 7.30pm.

Ooh la la - the thriving Buxton Drama League offers Gallic giggles galore with its latest offering, a panto version of The Three Musketeers, co-written by Robbie Carnegie and Jason Stevens.

YOUNG lovers aren’t the only people anxiously waiting for the post on February 14.

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust is organising a two-hour leisurely guided walk looking at the value of trees.