Do come and hear our team of organists play and demonstrate our new organ on October 4th starting at 10.45 and running on until 1.30.  Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available whenever you are able to drop in.  The sound is remarkable and fills the church!  Contrary to my last message on the subject, there is every chance that the restoration work on the site of the old organ will be completed by then - we discovered a void under the old organ which needs to be filled and we plan to put back one row of pews leaving the rest of the space for other uses.

One for your diaries - I have been asked to set up a fundraiser for Devon Historic Churches Trust. I have asked Alison Smith, the virtuoso classical guitarist (www.alisonsmithguitar.com), if she would be willing to play for us and she has agreed - she is a super musician.  I have worked with her before when she very gamely played at Sampford Spiney on a positively arctic night when we were raising money to renew the central heating in an off the shoulder frock – the audience were all in their overcoats!   What I propose is to run a concert followed by cheese and wine on Saturday 25 October in St Paul’s, Yelverton at £15 per head. I would plan to open the bar at 6.30pm, begin the concert at 7pm (two halves of 45 minutes plus intermission) followed by cheese and wine.  Tickets are now on sale from me.

Simon Hill

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