Playing Day – Society of Recorder Players

Sat 14Jun2025

A full day of playing and musical exploration with Annemarie Klein

Holy Trinity Church

197a Hurdsfield Road, Macclesfield, SK10 2PX

10:00 - 16:15

£16

Contact:

Macclesfield Branch Playing Day 2025

January 2026

Sat 24Jan2026

Playing Day with Helen Hooker

Greenfield Primary School, Gwendoline Drive, Countesthorpe, Leicester LE8 5SG

10:00 - 16:30

£15.00

We welcome visitors to come and enjoy a day's playing with Helen Hooker.

Please bring a music stand and lunch.

Payment £15.00 by cheque payable to Leicester Recorder Players or BACS: Sort Code 40-63-01. Account No 40009966. Your name as a reference.

Please email me when you have made the transaction as confirmation.

Contact: / +447775890033

February 2026

Fri 06Feb2026

Performing on a variety of period instruments, Sounds Historical’s new programme reveals some of the remarkable women who helped shape early music.

St Mary's Church, Church Lane, Lower Heyford, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 5NZ

19:30

£18.00 / free U18

Sounds Historical put women at the centre of their latest programme and introduce you to some remarkable females who left a tangible musical legacy in many ways - from patrons to poets, printers to publishers and composers, students and scribes.

Including Isabella d’Este, Anne of Denmark, Anne Boleyn, Lady Russell Countess of Bedford, Jane Pickering, Isabella Leonarda, Elizabeth Herbert Countess of Pembroke and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.

Sounds Historical are Heidi Fardell (recorders/flutes), Mary Tyers (recorders/flutes/voice), Alison Kinder (viols) and Lynda Sayce (theorbo/lutes).

They love to chat to their audiences, introducing the music and instruments as the concert progresses.

See you there!

www.soundshistorical.weebly.com

Sat 07Feb2026

A day with Stephen Watkins playing music of his own composition.He warmly invites the Big Basses !

St John's Church Hall, St John's Road, Meadowfield, Durham DH7 8RP

10:00 - 16:30

£15

Join the Durham SRP for a Playing Day with Stephen Watkins, playing music of his own composition.

Stephen invites all instruments and encourages the Big Basses !

Contact: / 07500706389

Sat 07Feb2026

This is the first of the 3 Recorder Orchestra Workshops this term. The dates are 10 Jan, 7 Feb and 7 March

Lancaster Methodist Church, Scotforth Road, Lancaster, LA1 4TE

14:30 - 16:30

£30 for the three workshops

Contact: / 07969358318

www.lcmt.org.uk

Sat 07Feb2026

Recorders, lutes, crumhorns, flutes, viols, violin... Hop into our time machine for a whistle-stop tour of musical history from the medieval through to the 18th century!

All Saints Church, Marketplace, Evesham, WR11 4RW

19:30

£22 / £5 U18

4 performers and 37 instruments, performing music from Hildegard to Haydn including Isaac, Alfonso X of Castile, Machaut, Dalza, Schlick, Attaignant, Susato, Cima, Simpson, de la Barre, and Telemann.

Sounds Historical are Heidi Fardell (recorders/flutes), Mary Tyers (recorders/flutes/voice), Alison Kinder (viols) and Lynda Sayce (theorbo/lutes).

Sounds Historical love to chat to their audiences, introducing the music and instruments as the concert progresses. Their programmes are carefully researched and arranged, providing an engaging journey through the changes and developments of music and instruments across 600 years!

See you there!

Contact: Evesham & District Music Club