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BFCS have launched their YouTube channel and on 5 September at 7.30pm it will feature their season launch concert – The Road Home. Click here to access the channel, subscribe and enjoy their recordings.

Graham Barber’s online recital will be available from 11.00am on Monday 31 August 2020. Please click here to access the recital which will be released just before 11.00am and also available following the recital.

The third of the Coffee House Recitals 2020 will go live on the YDOA YouTube channel on Wednesday 19 August at the usual time of 6.30pm.

Further information is available here.

The YouTube link can be accessed here.

In celebration of Yorkshire Day 2020 East Leeds FM radio / Chapel FM Arts Centre will be broadcasting live from Leeds Town Hall on Saturday 1 August from 12pm. The programme will include a special concert by Leeds City Organist, Darius Battiwalla, on the Town Hall’s magnificent organ which was first played during the opening ceremony of the Town Hall attended by Queen Victoria in 1858.

This will be the first live performance at the Town Hall since the Coronavirus Lockdown (although with no live audience). Over the past 18 weeks the Leeds International Concert Season team, which delivers over 200 concerts a year at venues across the city and Morley Town Hall, has been working in line with government guidance to find ways in which to bring back live music safely to audiences, and is delighted to be working in partnership with Chapel FM on the journey to bringing live music back to Leeds.

Further details, including the programme, can be found via this link: https://www.leedstownhall.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/yorkshire-day-organ-concert/6332

The Coffee House Recitals that are usually an annual event have, will this year be available online.

The planned dates are: 22 July, 5 & 19 August and 2 September. The usual time of Wednesdays at 6:30pm will be maintained but the recitals will be available for a short time following the advertised dates.

Access will be through the York & District Organists Association YouTube channel. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4a9KGE1ekKUyK7f9BfqpLw

All you need to do is to click the link at 6:30 on the date in question. (The link will operate from 6:17pm)

ABRSM have published further information about their remotely-assessed Performance Grades. For further information and to read their latest updates, please visit their website: https://gb.abrsm.org/en/latestupdates/

The RCO Summer Course Online is now available. Please follow this link to access the details –

https://www.rco.org.uk/events/summer-course-online

Please click here to see details of a scholarship opportunity at St Barnabas Church in Middlesborough.

Graham Barber has been recording a weekly organcast during Lockdown. Follow the links below to enjoy a sample:

Graham Barber’s Organcast 12 – Buxtehude and Stacey

Graham Barber’s Organcast 13: Bach, Parry, Stockmeier

Click here if you would like more information about what is available.