“Tales from the washing line” children’s puppet show: 28 March

Keep the little ones entertained and help raise funds for our community art space. Come see On the Other Hand Puppet Theatre Company’s two environmentally themed stories of waste and recycling.

Sat 28th March 11 am
St Mary's Old Church
£5 per ticket or £18 per family (one parent and 3 children, two parents and two children or three grown ups and one child)

The first puppet story focuses on an Inuit man who decides to dump his rubbish into the ocean each time he goes fishing, until he receives a warning from the Spirit of the Arctic.

The second story is about an underused, and thus lonely dustbin. Happily, he meets a friend and, together, they set about tackling a horrible Litterbug.

Recycling is practised in front of the audience, with several of the puppets made during the show from everyday objects. The message to children and parents is clear: look at some of the things we often throw away, and explore what can be made with them.

Clever puppets, lots of humour, sharp writing and memorable characters make this a very satisfying show for audiences from 3 and up.

Baroque flute and harpsichord concert: March 2

Listen to Soile Pylkkönen play flute baroque works by Telemann, C.P.E. Bach, and Kleinknecht and Pawel Siwczak, on the harpsichord and raise funds for our community arts space.

Monday 2nd March 7:30 pm
St Mary's New Church
Donations welcome

Finnish-born Soile Pylkkönen gained her Masters of Music degree with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music. She has performed and recorded with such internationally acknowledged ensembles as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Gabrieli Consort and Players. She also regularly performs with her ensemble Four Temperaments, with whom she was awarded the Royal Academy of Music Leverhulme chamber music junior fellowship 2007-2008.

Pawel Siwczak, has played for the Gabrieli Consort and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Eclectic folk sounds: 22 February

Listen to the eclectic folk sounds of singer-songwriters Foreign Slippers and Karen Grace and harpist Susannah Evans and help raise funds for our community arts space.

Sunday 22nd Feb 8pm
£10 on the door/£5 concessions and children - includes a glass of wine

Foreign Slippers (aka Gabrielle Frödén pictured above) makes music of unnerving quality. Hailing from Norrkoping, Sweden her captivating debut 'Oh death' is caught up in tales of longing and mortality. Foreign Slippers ushers you into a world of pump organs, music boxes and blackbirds from which you will be unwilling to return.

Introspective and personal, hopeful and intoxicating, Karen Grace’s songs take you on a poetic journey from farmland to funerals, from defiance to dedicated persuasion. Her enchanting voice has been likened to a ‘butterfly with guts’, and her sound-world involves moments of delicate finger-picked guitar with touches of bewitching violin and the magic of a full-sized harp. An emerging artist on the London music circuit, she recently played in The Blue Room Bar in the O2 Complex, and at The Greenbelt Festival last summer and recently released her debut album ‘Find me’.

Susannah Evans was a member of Harrow School for Young Musicans in 1992 and was principal harpist with their Philharmonic Orchestra for four years. Susannah was principal harpist for the Durham University Chamber and Symphony Orchestras from 2000 to 2003. She now performs with various orchestras and choral societies, and accompanies Karen on her debut album ‘Find Me’. www.susannahevans.co.uk