In 1988 David and Linda Holmes began to organise chamber concerts at The Old Chapel, Walpole, originally to raise funds for the chapel. Adventurous programming and promising musicians of the younger generation on summer Sundays: these early concerts set the direction for all that followed. In 1991 the series moved to St Mary’s Church Cratfield, so Concerts at Cratfield began (with an excursion to Halesworth for a winter series in 1993).
Blyth Valley Chamber Music – the official name for the organisation responsible for each summer concert series – is a registered charity. It is run entirely by volunteers, who staff its committee, run the box office, collect musicians from the train and make sure there is lunch for them, label chairs with seat numbers, put the concert signs out on the roads around and so on. Our partnership with the church at Cratfield is very close: church helpers organise the famous teas in each concert interval, and our concerts also support the church financially. Ticket receipts – our main source of income – are generously supplemented by regular contributions from our Patrons and Members, who in return gain priority booking and an invitation to our AGM. This reviews the season just ended and appoints Committee members for the following year. Click here for a link to the Patrons and Members application form.
Our 2007-2008 Committee [pictured on the right] is Jeremy Greenwood (Chair), Roger Plowden (Treasurer), Ken Backhouse (Concert Organiser), Tom Southern (Secretary and Box Office), Philip Britton, Christine Stephenson, Lorna Turner and (co-opted) Jack Stephenson.
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