The Royal Forest of Dean Orchestra is promising to pluck at your heart strings on Saturday (July 4) – with Mendelssohn’s masterpiece Violin Concerto played by talented Pip Green, Smetana’s Vltava and Dvorak’s New World Symphony.
Staged in the beautiful historic setting of the Cathedral of the Forest at Newland with conductor Jack Lovell at the helm, the concert starts at 7.30pm, tickets on the door are £8 (concessions £6). Children free.
Retiring collection for Forest Talk, the talking newspaper charity based in Cinderford.
Parking available at Rookery Farm, near Laundry Lane. Passengers can be dropped at the church because of the walk up the hill. (Gates locked at 10.30pm).