It gives us great pleasure to bring to you yet another St Andrew's Music Festival this November. To organise events in such a lovely setting is always a pleasure and I hope with this year's events there is something that appeals to everyone. 

The festival is slightly shorter than last year's, due to our company having many new things launching this Autumn; not least our new choir "Contemporary Voices" which features in the festival. However, we are still just as committed to bringing the festival to the local area of Nether Edge and we feel this year's festival still shows many of our core values as an arts company. 

We are pleased yet again to feature young musicians in our programme and our thanks goes to Rory Evans of Sheffield Music Hub for bringing together the various groups for our opening concert. We are also really pleased to give a platform to local amateur musicians in the Peak Valley Concert Band who celebrate an important anniversary this year under the fantastic leadership of Karen Burland-Clark. 

The launch of our choir sees yet another "pay what you can" event as we know there are, now more than ever, those who don't have the money to be able to access the arts and so we hope that if you find yourself in this difficult situation you will still come along and enjoy the event! 
We hope there is something in this year's festival for you and we look forward to welcoming you through the doors at one of our events. 

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Gavin Usher

Artistic Director; Sheffield Arts Studio