TAVISTOCK Sings music festival will hit the right note from April 27 to May 1 with a wide variety of events and concerts. This is the first year the music festival is having to fund itself ? the three year funding from the Market and Coastal Towns Initiative having expired ? and was described as ?the crunch year? by festival chairman Christopher Kirwin. Ticket sales will be of the utmost importance, but the event is also being supported by a number of corporate and individual sponsors. The breadth of music has increased since the first year, which was totally classical, and this year there will be everything from choral, classical and jazz to brass and rock. At 7pm on April 27 there will be a youth concert with up to 350 children, including the first performance of the Pied Piper of Hamelin by Andrew Wilson. This will be followed on April 28 by a supper and entertainment entitled ?Some Enchanted Evening? with Dominique Thiebaud and Philip Salmon at Kelly College. On the Saturday there will be three events: the Stannary Brass Band concert in Bedford Square at 10.45am, a flute and song recital with Kate Walker and Gill Waters in the Abbey Chapel at 12.15pm, and the festival gala concert celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart?s birth with the Ten Tors Orchestra in St Eustachius Church at 7.30pm. Jazz enthusiasts will be able to indulge their passion with the lunchtime event in the Town Hall on the Sunday with Adele Wilding and the Anderson Jazz Quartet, while at Mount House School at 4pm there will be a concert by South West Camarata and the Mount House School Choir. Festival evensong will take place in the parish church. Visitors and residents alike can fill Bank Holiday Monday with music, from 10.30am with a choral workshop in the church, an organ recital at 1pm, the coronation anthems of Handel ? also in the church ? at 5pm and local youth rock bands in the town hall at 5.30pm. Many of the events are free, but more information and tickets for others can be obtained through the Tavistock Tourist Information Centre in Bedford Square: telephone 01822 612938.
