Dear supporter of St. Mary’s’ Musical concerts,

Our next concert will be on Sunday 10 April, at 3 o’clock. If you think this is coming round rather quickly, you would be correct! The Third Sunday of April is Easter Day, so our April concert will be a week earlier, on Palm Sunday.

The concert will be given by Kevin Duggan, organ, with his friends Katherine Wren, viola, and Stewart Kempster, bass. Kevin is the Director of Music at Dunblane Cathedral, and has given us several wonderful concerts in the past. The programme will include music by JS Bach, Cesar Franck, Rebecca Clarke, as well as some folk songs and spirituals.

As usual the concert will last an hour and be followed by tea. Entrance is by voluntary donation, and places may be reserved by responding to this email.

I have also been asked to draw your attention to a forthcoming concert in Kinlochard Village Hall in July. The concert will be given by Pippa Reid-Foster and Eva Alkula: Meta Morphosis on Sunday  

24 July 2022 at 14:00 – 16:00 BST. (The harpist Pippa R-F gve a concert in St. Mary’s a few years back, and was very good!) Tickets cost £13.52 and may be booked through eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meta-morphosis-tickets-305052669747.

Meta Morphosis is a collaboration between kantele musician Eva Alkula and harpist Pippa Reid-Foster, which dives into the soundscape created by the kantele and the Scottish harp. Based on minimalist music, compositions and improvisation, the atmospheric concert explores the transformation as climate change and COVID-19 pandemic rumble the world. The concert will feature music by Philip Glass, Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, Pippa Reid-Foster, among others, as well as the premiere of a new work composed for the duo by Timo Alakotila.

I do hope you will be able to support is concert in July. Please note that we are intending to have our July concert the week before this, given by as usual by Feis Fhiort, TBC.

Best wishes,

Christopher Roads