Budleigh Past and Present

Fairlynch Trustee Kate Somerby will be performing as one of the members of the Exeter Festival Chorus   on Sunday 15 November at 3.00 pm in Sidmouth Parish Church. Professional actress and Fairlynch volunteer Kate Somerby, with friend Described as “a unique Sunday matinée of choral favourites, from the intensity of Lotti's Crucifixus to the cool of Manhattan Transfer's Java Jive ,  the programme   includes Handel's Zadok the Priest , Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine , Queen's Seaside Rendezvous , Paul Simon's Bridge Over Troubled Water plus music by Rachmaninov, Mozart, John Rutter and jazz legend George Shearing. And if that were not enough, also included is Bob Chilcott's masterly musical setting of Aesop's Fables which brings to life each story, from the groaning mountain to the dozing tortoise at the end of the race, in a portrayal of these moral tales that is sure to appeal to audiences of ...

Star pianist Alexandra Dariescu performs at the Music Festival With only days now until the start of the 2012 Budleigh Music Festival, Chairman Roger Bowen reminds us of the exciting and varied programme which music-lovers from East Devon and beyond are eagerly anticipating. As a founding member of the Music Festival, Roger was also a Budleigh Salterton Town Councillor and was for about three years on Fairlynch's managing committee with responsibility for liaising with the Museum. "My involvement with Fairlynch was when Roger Kingwill was chair," he recalls. "I   participated when Jeremy Robinson made his report about the Museum's organisation. I also prepared a website to replace the outdated hub-dependent one though it was never really used to any great extent." For three years Fairlynch put an event on for the Music Festival usually organised by Sonia Stone, who succeeded Roger Kingwill as chair.   Many members of t...