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Renowned pianist Peter Donohoe will play a “time machine” at Buxton International Festival thanks to a piano custom-made to the standards of Mozart’s day.

Ants aren’t part of your usual five-a-day fruits, but they do come in a range of orange, lemon and tangerine flavours, foraging expert and nature writer John Wright will tell Buxton International festival.

Paul Berry, a supporter of Buxton International Festival since the very beginning, shares his recollections from the last 40 years.

Our amazing book intern, Shakshi Singh shares her experience of working with the Buxton International Festival team and outlines her top tips for succeeding as a festival intern.

Calling for applications from classical musicians to perform in duets, trios or quartets as BIF Buskers at the Buxton International Festival 2019.

Bake-Off eat your heart out! Buxton International Festival turned up the heat on its supporters by challenging them to come up with cakes for its summer Tea Garden, which will run in the University of Derby’s magnificent Dome from July 8 to 21.

Volunteers acting as WW1 soldiers in train stations and shopping centres were prepared for everything the public could throw at them —except tears.

Cherry picking traditions from Russia and Japan Cherry-picking, by definition in English at least, is a bit of a brutal affair: grab the best and reject the rest.
But in other cultures, a far more subtle and romantic relationship with the fruit has blossomed, and Buxton International Festival has cherry-picked the best of these for 2019.

Half the thrill of books which predict a terrifying future is guessing when the fiction might become reality. George Orwell only gave us 35 years to get ready for 1984, but if you are thinking of reading John Lanchester’s gripping The Wall, do it now before it all comes true.

How we abuse the natural environment will soon be viewed with the same kind of horror now reserved for slavery or child labour, explains one of the nation’s foremost nature writers.