THE 2025 St Ives September Festival will burst into life at noon on Saturday with the Falmouth Marine Band making their debut in the Street Entertainment programme.

They will be joined on the afternoon by an array of performers including Piano Bike Girl, Chloe Marie Aston, who is appearing in St Ives for the first time as she aims to pedal her talents in every town in Britain.

Her tally has already passed the 200 mark and Chloe, from Ilfracombe, said: “It’s been really fun, it’s an adventure. Someone told me there are about 1,200 towns and cities in the UK, so there’s still a way to go.”

Her dad, Lee, who made the tricycle on which the piano is mounted, is chauffeuring her around Britain in a caravan after selling his home to pursue the quest.

The mayor of St Ives Cllr Johnnie Wells is excited about the September Festival which presenting more than 300 events between September 13 and 27.

He said: “Autumn is one of my favourite times of year with 15 days of music, art, poetry and people coming together in a very St Ives way.

“I’m really looking forward to seeing what the 2025 Festival brings to town.”

Events sold out early include Fascinating Aida’s fund-raising show for Kidz R Us at St Ives Theatre, folk star Miranda Sykes and Cornwall comedian Johnny Cowling at St Ives Theatre, both Virginia Woolf Garden Tours at Talland House and the Over 60s Aerial Circus workshop with Sky High Arts at the Island Centre.

There are two late additions to the line-up - A talk on the St Ives Mariners Memorial project with Tom Leaper is at Penwith Gallery on Tuesday, September 16 with St Ives Town Band’s Sketch To The Sound Of Swing in the Band Room on Thursday, September 18

For the latest updates and tickets visit www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk