endellions at abbotsholme

tomorrow night the Endellion String Quartet perform at the start of the 41st Abbotsholme Arts Society season. In such an intimate space as Abbotsholme Chapel, having such consummate performers will be a thrilling experience, but I wonder whether the fact we seem to currently only have half the audience I was expecting has anything to do with the current financial doom and gloom. I guess it could have something to do with their record label listing the wrong date, or it might just be that saturday night events in deep rural Staffordshire don't really work.
Other news just in is that Jennifer Pike, performing at Abbotsholme on 20 January, has just joined the BBC New Generation Artist Scheme - brava!

the edge of region

Thank you Birmingham Post for noticing the Abbotsholme Arts Society's new season in time for your regional autumn round up. Referred to (only by me) as Lichfield Festival's little sister, it is nice that our tiny, vital Abbotsholme season still manages to raise eyebrows. You need to read the whole article to find it, but we seem to have the most adjectives

Right on the edge of our region, the amazingly enterprising Abbotsholme Arts Society kicks off its 41st season of bringing world-class performers to Abbotsholme School near Rocester, deep in Staffordshire, with a visit from the Endellion String Quartet. The programme for this October 4 event includes Haydn, Britten, Janacek and Mozart. There follows a positive cornucopia of concerts in this heady series...

I very much like how 'amazingly enterprising', 'positive cornucopia' and 'heady series' sound.

I've been working from home for the last two days because our server in the Festival Office has gone down, taking email, web and every electronic file with it. We now know why we have been loyally backing up every day.