This year’s Westbury Park Festival starts with a concert by Westbury Park School on Monday 29th June, wrapping with a festival service on July 5th, and then open gardens for the afternoon.  The week-long festival is packed, and includes a guided tour of the downs’s trees, botanical gardens, a quiz night, an art exhibition, the big street party and a choir explosion in St Alban’s for Only Choirs Aloud.

Full details see the Westbury Park Festival website.

Our organist (and choir master) Nigel Walton celebrated 50 years as an organist at a special evensong on June 7th.  We were pleased to see so many people, including many who rarely (if ever) have heard evensong. The music, including Zadoc the Priest, Balfour Gardiner’s Evening Hymn and Nigel’s preferred responses, were of course chosen by Nigel.

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