Please join us for a charity concert by Sonorité Saxophone Quartet on Sunday 15th May, 2.30pm in aid of our Charity of the Year for 2022, Emmaus Hertfordshire.

Sonorité Saxophone Quartet are part of Sonorité Music, a Hertfordshire-based collective of musicians specialising in music for events and ceremonies.

They enjoy performing in a wide variety of music and styles, from Baroque to Film and Theatre. The group consists of:

• Jenny Akroyd Soprano saxophone
• Kathryn McGuinness Alto saxophone
• Nathan Harding Tenor saxophone
• Daniel Ephgrave Baritone saxophone

Admission is free, with a retiring collection in aid of Emmaus Hertfordshire.

Please do join us!

Music to cheer the heart

Please join us for a concert of favourite pieces from the world of classical music, performed in aid of Ukraine. Saturday 23rd April, at 7.00pm, in St Mary’s Church, Redbourn.

• Damian Carter Baritone
• Hazel Correa Violin
• Lina Saavedra Soprano
• Micheila Connolly Piano

Music will include:

• Spring, Sonata Vivaldi (arranged for piano and violin)
• Arabesque, Debussy (piano)
• Chanson de matin, Elgar (violin & piano)
• La ci darem, from Don Giovanni, Mozart (song duet)
• Toreador’s aria, from Carmen, Bizet 
• E lucevan le stelle, aria from Tosca, Puccini
• Some Enchanted Evening, song from South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Now sleeps the Crimson Petal, English song by Roger Quilter (vocal, piano and violin)
• El Majo Discreto, and El Majo Timido, Spanish songs by Granados
• and more…. 

Free entry with retiring collection which will go to the DEC Ukraine Appeal.

Don’t miss it!

We are thrilled to announce that the total raised for our Charity of the Year project for 2020-2021, Pumps for Mpwapwa in Tanzania was just over £40,000 (that’s over 120 million Tanzanian Shillings!).  

This is enough to allow the ambitious project to install a solar-powered water pump in the village of Msagali to go ahead, and we look forward to keeping you updated with news and photographs as work on the pump begins.

The village of Msagali is home to 150 families, and this pump will provide irrigation for farmers in and around the village, with a reliable water source and much better food security and nutrition for those families as a result.

An enormous thank you to everyone who supported our fundraising over the last two years through donations and attending and helping with our events and activities including: the St Mary’s Arts Festival weekend and Eight Seasons concert, Christmas Crafts Sale, Crowdfunding campaign, classical music concerts from Quartet Camerata, sales of Will’s book ‘A Minister’s Musings’, Lockdown Live concert on Zoom, Virtual Beer & Carols 2020 and 2021 and generous individual donations. 

Look out for more updates soon on our St Mary’s Charity of the Year for 2022.