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AT Brook Lane, Thame. 11am to 2pm; Cakes, jams, books, cards, plants, clothes, etc., for sale. Games and Raffles.

Excellent food, multi-national, freshly prepared

TODAY – 11am-2pm – Barley Hill Fun Day.

ROYAL Academy Opera star Anna Gorbachyova will be lighting up Thame next Saturday (July 6t) with her stunning interpretation of Haydn?s Nelson Mass.

Famous for the ?fireworks? demanded of the soloist, the work is perfect for the Russian Soprano who is renowned for her faultless technical virtuosity.

She will be singing with Lord Williams?s Festival Chorus (LWFC), a community choir which has gained a name for itself by staging concerts to an extraordinary standard. The conductor is John Gibbons.

Choir chair Claire Humphries says: ?We are thrilled to have Anna singing with us again. We?re an un-auditioned amateur choir, and our concerts usually feature both classics and beautiful, lesser-known works. As well as the Haydn on Saturday, the programme will include Vaughan Williams? sublime Benedicite, and Bach?s much-loved Double Violin Concerto.”

The concert will start at 7.30pm at Thame Leisure Centre, Oxford Road. Tickets cost

OUR June, monthly meeting will be this coming Wednesday, June 26, usual time and place, 7 30pm – 9pm in the first floor Conference Room of Lord Williams Lower School Sports Hall (off Queens Rd), Thame.

The meeting will discuss actions to be presented at the street collection table and also adoption of a new POC for longer term group action as replacement for our current people from Pakistan.

And talking of the street collection, we still do need more helpers on Saturday, June 29, especially in the afternoon where we still have a few slots unfilled.

Please let me know if you can help but can’t be at Wednesday’s meeting. Do drop in anyway at our street collection table in Greyhound Walk next Saturday.

July’s meeting will be a social as Lord Williams’s school will be closed for the summer holidays. More details next month.

SOURCE: Contributed

FIVE Thame Gardens will be opening on Sunday, June 23, 2013, between 2pm and 5.30 pm as part of the National Gardens Scheme (known as the Yellow Book).

Combined admission is

TOWERSEY Manor is once more the beautiful setting for this year’s Towersey Fete, which takes place on Sunday, June 23, from 12.30 ? 4pm, and local resident, Ken Bruce, will officially open the fete at 12.45pm.

Visit Towersey to enjoy all the attractions of a traditional village fete in the lovely gardens of the Manor. For the first time this year, the attractions will onclude children?s and adult?s races (egg and spoon, sack race etc) and competitions for the best three-strand plaited loaf of bread and for constructing a boat from recycled materials.

Refreshments will include BBQ, beer, Pimms and ice creams, and delicious cream teas and cakes will be available in the beautiful barn. Member of the fete organising committee, Debbie Mellor said: “We are hoping to continue our successful run of warm sunny weather ? relax in the gardens, take a garden tour and enjoy rock and blues band The Notations with singer Hayley Gomm.”

Stalls include bric-a-brac, plants, cakes, preserves and crafts, tombola, toys and books, and the Manor Boutique stocking nearly new ladies? clothes. For children, there?s a bouncy castle, and Professor Boodle?s Punch & Judy show. The recently formed Towersey Women’s Cotswold Morris will be dancing in the courtyard. Last but not least, there will be the chance to win one of many very attractive prizes in the Grand Raffle, or place a bid in the Silent Auction.

There will be plenty of free parking (including disabled parking) available off Manor Road close to Towersey Manor. Admission price is just

CONCERT: Crendon Chamber Orchestra – St Mary’s Church, Thame – 7.30pm. Conductor: David Angell; Leader: Ed Hewitt.

Mozart – Divertimento No.3
Sculthorpe – Shining Island
Kats-Chernin – Eliza Aria
Mahler – Adagio
Palmer – Ruritanian Dances

Adults

COME and join us to find out more about Save the Children and how you can get involved in supporting us. From 5pm to 8pm at the Barns Centre, Church Road, Thame.

For more info. contact Pip Micklem on 07879875212 or p.micklem@savethechildren.org.uk

FROM now until September there is an exhibition at Thame Museum celebrating the centenary of The Players Theatre building. To launch the exhibition, Tony Long will be giving a talk at Thame Museum on the history of the theatre and Thame Players, at 8pm on Friday, June 28.

Peter Lambert, Thame’s new mayor will be there. The museum will open at 7pm to enable people to look round the exhibition and enjoy a complimentary glass of wine.

Tickets cost

AYLESBURY Consort of Voices – Conductor Matthew Vine; A Musical Tour of Europe – A Capella choral music from 15th – 21st century.

St. Nicholas Church, Church Lane, Chearsley, Bucks. HP18 0DF – 7pm – Tickets