Christmas gets off to a cracker of a start at 4.30pm on Saturday 20th December at the Town Hall, Hebden Bridge with Dave Nelson's ever-popular annual Family Christmas Singalong.

The event, a fixture in the town's festive calendar, is a delightfully old-fashioned 'round the piano' opportunity to sing along to all those favourite Christmas songs and carols.

The Singalong is being run in partnership with the Town Hall, and will raise funds for next year's Hebden Bridge Piano Festival, which Dave founded and directs. "As usual, we're staging plenty of free and subsidised family events during the festival, so there's a need to raise money to help cover the cost of those", said Dave.

As in previous years vocal group Wainsgate Waits will sing four-part medieval carols plus some unusual arrangements of well-known ones. Mainly though, it's all about the party-goers getting together on the weekend of the Winter Solstice and singing along with gusto to welcome in the festive season.