A music festival which brings world class music to historic local venues returns for a seventh time next month.

Music@Malling, which includes outreach work with 1,400 primary schoolchildren from around the West Malling area, comes to the town from Thursday, September 21 to Saturday, September 30.

Some 24 events will take place, featuring music of leading contemporary composers, alongside classical, jazz and folk music.

The programme involving schoolchildren will focus on Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and Little Red Riding Hood with Chamber Domaine and narrator Matthew Sharp. With Sound and Music, Go compose! will give 10 young composers from Kent the opportunity to compose a piece of music to be performed and recorded in one day.

Concerts will include performance of favourites from Vaughan William's The Lark Ascending and Elgar's Cello Concerto with Richard Harwood. There will also be a premiere of a new work by Tomi Raisanen.

The festival is organised by Thomas Kemp, a professional musician and conductor who grew up in West Malling and now lives back in the area.

More details of the programme will be revealed in the coming weeks. For more information go to musicatmalling.com.