The World on Your Doorstep, Hebden’s free World Music Festival, triumphantly defied misfortune and the climate to set Hebden Bridge rocking in Calder Holmes Park last weekend. It opened on Saturday morning with the Handmade Parade, an amazing display of colour, invention and fantasy, a community-based puppet parade organised by the arts group HEADS and Thingumajig Theatre. Hebden Bridge has never seen anything like it.

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The world is coming to Calder Holmes Park this weekend, in the shape of the second World on Your Doorstep festival. Over the Saturday and Sunday (19/20 July) the park will be host to an incredible variety of music from around the world. The catch is that all of the artists are local or live within a 50 mile radius of Hebden Bridge.

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Tom & Cain compered on this rainy summer evening – Cain kicked off with a death-rant against Sponge Bob Square Pants (yes, really!) then Graham & Andy soothed us with melodic harmonies. Sarah & Rob made a welcome return with something classy on acoustic fiddle & flute. Bluesmeister JoNathan mused about why women love men (anybody know the answer..?)

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Some times a noisy audience can be a help.

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The singer songwriter competition at the Trades Club to raise funds for Hebden Bridge’s World Music festival, the World on Your Doorstep, was won last Thursday night by fabulous Calder Valley performer, Mabel Blue. Mabel, who has recently returned to the area and lives in Mytholmroyd, has for a long time been one of the most distinctive songwriters in the district and one of its most magical performers. In winning the prize, 3 hours free recording in the local Valve Recording studio, she soared above even her own lofty standards.

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