Region’s music celebrated at Wentworth festival

A FOUR-day festival of music will feature choirs and musicians from across the region.

The 2016 Wentworth Church Music Festival kicks off on Wednesday, September 21, with a performance by the Thurnscoe Harmonic Male Voice Choir, led by their musical director, Tony Jermy.

The choir are fresh from their concert in Kirchberg in the Austrian Tyrol, where they were joined by members of other choirs and performed as The Yorkshire Mixture.

The Thurnscoe men are working on a CD, to be released later in the autumn, and featuring many of the pieces to be given an airing at Wentworth, including works by Handel, and the ABBA duo Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus.

The Music Festival programme also features the following, with all performances starting at 7.30pm and tickets (available from the church) costing £7 or £6 for concessions:

Thursday, September 22 — Threeway (jazz trio).

Friday, September 23 — Emperor String Quartet.

Saturday, September 24 — Neil Taylor Organ Recital.

Saturday, September 24 — Sheffield Choral.

Thursday, October 13 — Margaret Duckworth Singers.