...DUE TO ILLNESS OF THE LEADER OF THE WAITES OF GLOUCESTER. IT HAS BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A SUITABLE SUBSTITUTE GROUP FOR THIS EVENING DUE TO THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THE BAND. HOWEVER WE HOPE TO FIND A NEW DATE FOR THEM EARLY IN THE NEW YEAR, PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR MORE INFORMATION. We shall […]

If you have tickets or plan to attend, • Please do a Lateral Flow Test within 24h , and do not to attend if it is positive, nor if you develop any Covid symptoms, a bad cold/flu symptoms or a cough. • Please wear a mask throughout the concert and keep it on when invited […]

We are at last able to offer a choral concert of  baroque music from Bologna, at 18.30 on 19th September in the Church of St John the Baptist, Wellington. Martin Perkins will direct the programme together with his Musical & Amicables colleagues, following their concert in BEMP's Third Thursday Series, All Saints' Church, Culmstock on […]

Look out for our new series of Third Thursday concerts in 2021.  Starting as soon as Covid restrictions permit (April?) and  in partnership with the Friends of All Saints' Church in Culmstock, we will be offering a concert/recital every third Thursday of the month. Top flight performers to anticipate this year include Steven Devine & […]

In keeping with many other organisations, it is with great regret that we must announce that this course will not be taking place as previously advertised, as a result of situation we all now face with the advance of Covid-19. Please check back for further information in due course.

Following the last two years’ gatherings of viol players at Cadbury House and elsewhere in Culmstock, we are this year running a residential course open to viol players and lutenists, focusing on English music of the 16th and 17th centuries.  The tutors for viol, consort and continuo will be Caroline Ritchie and Henrik Persson;  we […]

SOUTH WEST VIOL FEST II : Residential Course for Viols in Culmstock on the Somerset/Devon borders May 23-26 2019     Tutors: Caroline Ritchie and Henrik Persson Following the first course in May 2018 when Viols and Voices shared spaces at Cadbury House and elsewhere in Culmstock, Devon,  this second residential course in 2019 will be […]

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