Lots of Music Everywhere!

 I'm coming the the realisation that the Christmas season is almost upon us, and there are all sorts of concerts planned in Hay.

Hay Music have got the choir of Clare College, Cambridge in St Mary's Church on Wednesday December 6th, at 7pm.  Tickets are £20, or £10 if you are under 25.  They will be singing a wide range of carols from around Europe, a mix of medieval and modern (one of the modern ones is the Shepherd's Pipe Carol by John Rutter, which I learned at school), familiar and unfamiliar (Ding, Dong, Merrily on High to O Magnum Mysterium).  It looks as if it's going to be a really good evening.

Before that, on Saturday 2nd December from 10.30am, Father Richard will be giving an organ recital with a retiring collection in aid of the church.  Tea and coffee will be available. 

Later that afternoon, at 3.30pm, Hay Forum will have a talk about the Camino de Santiago, the great pilgrim route across Spain, with music from Terry and Christina Watson, Catherine Hughes, Father Richard and Lucy Green Ford, ranging from Polish carols with guitar accompaniment to a Bach organ solo, a Welsh carol and a piece from the Messiah.  Tickets are £5 on the door and there will be mince pies and sherry.

On Sunday the 3rd December at the Globe, the Hay Shantymen will be singing from 6.30pm.  Tickets are £10 online and from Flow on Castle Street.

On Saturday 9th December at 7.30pm, the Hay Community Choir are doing the Messiah at St. Mary's (part one, the bit with the Halleluiah Chorus) along with Clyro School Voices and children from Hay School.  Tickets are £10 from Hay Deli and on the door, and there will be a licensed bar.

Also in St. Mary's, on Saturday 16th December from 3.30 to 4.30pm, Hay Madrigals will be performing a mixture of Christmas and non-Christmas songs, beginning with an organ recital by Father Richard.  Tickets are £10 on the door, and there will be tea, coffee, wine and cakes afterwards.