Music in the church at Walsham le Willows Open Gardens weekend, August 2023

For many years St Mary’s Church in Walsham Le Willows has played host to the art exhibition and flower displays that have become an integral part of the Open Gardens event, held over the August Bank Holiday. This year, we were treated to the additional pleasures of a Flute and Celtic Harp duo that floated effortlessly and clearly around the church. Set in as background to the displays on show, it rapidly became an impromptu concert. The beautiful and sometimes haunting melodies of some of our best-known 20^th Century classics, traditional and folk tunes was a pure delight and had people coming back for more over the 4 performances. It was a real treat  to sit and immerse ourselves in these wonderful tunes, in a building designed to send music spiralling up to the heavens, and surrounded by the evocative and energising results of artistic labours. Summertime (remember Ella?), The Rose, Down by The Salley Gardens, Blow the Wind Southerly, Greensleeves, The Star of The County Down and more. The aptly named Angels Delight: Adriene Ellis and Anne Chorley will have made special memories for those lucky enough to have found them.