ON Saturday June 13, Landulph Parish Church welcomes the South West Chamber Choir, with director Stephen Trahair, in Music for a Summer's Evening, with interludes provided by Peppermint Tea.

The wide-ranging programme begins with a troubadour song written over 500 years ago, and runs through the centuries to include works from Gibbons, Dowland and Purcell to Parry, Elgar and Quilter.

The concert concludes with arrangements of American barbershop and traditional British airs by the SWCC director, Stephen Trahair.

The South West Chamber Choir was formed in 1995 and performs a wide variety of choral music, from Tudor times to the present.

Concert venues have ranged from mediaeval halls to country churches and even a derelict cemetery chapel.

A spokesperson for the choir said: 'We also undertake an annual singing weekend at a cathedral or abbey which enables us to present church music in its proper liturgical setting.

'Our repertoire includes church anthems, carols, madrigals and romantic partsongs. In July 2009 the choir will be deputising for the choir at Truro Cathedral.'

Stephen Trahair, the music director, has sung with the choir since 2003.

Although a lawyer by profession, music is his main interest; he was the director of music at Buckland Monachorum church for much of his youth, and has written and arranged music for secular and church choirs as well as for the organ.

He has published collections of unaccompanied carol arrangements and romantic partsongs, and two albums for organ.

Peppermint tea, Chrissie Russell and Ann Dunstone (recorders), Donald King (violin), Wendy Wyatt (cello), is part of a group of friends who meet every couple of weeks or so to play music mainly written for recorder consorts.

Most of what they play is from the baroque era, and that is what they are playing in the first half of the concert.

In the second half, following the increasingly contemporary flavour of the choir's programme, they are playing a couple of short pieces with an American flavour.  

Tickets £5 from 01752 845021.