Renowned organist David Shepherd will be giving a recital in Holbeach at the weekend.
As part of a series of events to celebrate 800 years of All Saints’ Church, David will be giving an organ recital in the church at 1.30pm on Saturday.
David is a very accomplished organist who has broadcast light organ music on Radio 2’s ‘The Organist Entertains’ since 1968, some of it from the theatre pipe-organ in his Lincolnshire home.
He is assistant organist at St Botolph’s, Boston (The Stump), and is also very involved with the Cinema Organ Society, the British Institute of Organ Studies, and is currently vice-president of the Theatre Organ Club.
He is very much in demand as an accompanist, and has worked locally with the South Holland Singers, Sleaford Choral Society and Cantemus.
The programme will be a celebration of British music by composers past and present, and very varied in musical style, from the founders of the English Organ Tradition, GF Handel and Maurice Greene, through SS Wesley, Alfred Herbert Brewer, John Ireland and Edward Elgar to the 20th Century music of Eric Coates, Alec Templeton, Eric Wayman and William Lloyd Webber.
From the reflective and elegiac to the upbeat and uplifting, there is something for everyone in this programme.
Tickets are £5 and available at the door.
Light lunches (homemade soup and sausage rolls) and drinks will be available from 12.30pm onwards.
Other events planned for the year include:
Saturday, September 27 – Amigurumi, 10am. Carole Warner will lead participants in making a small crochet animal. Cost £15, book on 07785 545454.
Saturday, October 18 – Slow Hand Stitch Seascape, 10am. Julie Cole will show how to transform a 6x6in piece of cloth into a textured seascape. Cost £15, book on 07785 545454.
Saturday, November 1 – Shrinkable Christmas Decorations, 10am. Emma Shortland will demonstrate how to make your own decorations using coloured pencils and plastic. Cost £15, book on 07785 545454.
Saturday, November 22 – Spalding Community Choir in Concert, 7.30pm. An evening of music inspired by water. Expect a mix of well-known tunes and surprises. Cost £10, no need to book,
