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in touch your local community noticeboard march - april 2020

Plant Lo vers ’ Paradise at Brama ll Hall Sunday 5 April sees the popular Plant Hunters’ Fair return to Bramall Hall with a huge choice of quality, nursery-grown plants. At this time of year, there will be a brilliant line-up of nurseries attending who will come laden with flowering bulbs, early flowering perennials, shrubs and trees to provide instant colour and also lots of later flowering plants to get planted for colour into the summer and beyond. Now’s the time to think ahead and plan that dream border for your garden.

The Plant Fair is a fund-raising event for special projects at the hall and has proved hugely popular, rapidly gaining a reputation as the best specialist plant fair in the area offering a dazzling array of plants all for just £2 entry to the fair. The plant fair will open at the earlier time of 10am to 4pm on Sunday 5 April. For full details of nurseries attending please see www.planthuntersfairs.co.uk

YOUNG RECORDER PLAYERS WANTED Stockport Recorder College is looking for young recorder players (7 to 18 years) to join us at Hazel Grove Methodist Church, Wesley St, Hazel Grove, on Saturday mornings in term time from 9am to 12.30pm for excellent tuition at minimum cost. Come to make friends, socialise and enjoy making music together – any standard of player is welcome.

For more details contact J. Ormerod Tel: 0161 449 5840 or visit www.stockportrecordercollege.org.uk

Cellist Matthew Sharp joins Northern Chamber Orchestra in Stockport ‘Virtuoso of the Arts’ (The Times) Matthew Sharp is teaming up with one of the country’s most admired orchestras, the Northern Chamber Orchestra (NCO) for an inspirational concert at The Forum Theatre on Wednesday 4 March. Sharp has previously performed with Opera North, Manchester Camerata, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra amongst many others and returns to Stockport following a hugely successful and well-received concert with the NCO last Spring.

Matthew Sharp is internationally recognised as both a compelling classical artist and a fearless pioneer. He is also an accomplished actor and animateur, having performed principal roles at the Young Vic and National Theatre, and during the days leading up to the concert will work alongside the musicians of the NCO with pupils from Stockport schools, culminating in the performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto no 2 at The Forum Theatre in Romiley. The programme also includes the overture from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, Haydn’s Symphony no 101, subtitled ‘The Clock’, and the final two sections of Aaron Copland’s Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz; and Hoedown.