Fetcham Area Guide

An opportunity to join a guided tour of St Marys Church, Stoke DAbernon, Surreys oldest church which dates from the 7th century. Features include reused Roman materials laid in characteristic Saxon style, 13th century wall paintings, internationally renowned 14th century brasses, a 16th century chantry chapel containing Vincent family monuments, a fine Jacobean pulpit and an important collection of 15th and 16th century stained glass. Each tour, which will last around 60 minutes, will be led by a professional guide and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. No charge will be made for these tours but donations to St Marys Church (by cash or card) will be welcome. Numbers are limited so early booking is recommended.

Soundbytes choir will be showcasing their summer term's work and singing some of pop's best-loved songs! Songs by Tears for Fears, Dusty Springfield, Carole King, Bill Withers and many more. Also featuring Bookham's upper voice choir - The Decibelles! Tickets are FREE for this popular, up-beat, life-affirming and joyful event. We will be supporting the charity Cherry Trees, who will give a short talk about the fantastic work they do. They are based just up the road in East Clandon and help dozens of families every week who have a child with complex disabilities and needs. For more details about this amazing charity, contact www.cherrytrees.org.uk [//www.cherrytrees.org.uk] The doors open 7:15pm, and there will be an outdoor bar set up in the beautiful grounds of Manor House School with plenty of free parking. The concert will last around an 1hr 15mins. There will be an opportunity to donate cash or contactless payments to our chosen charity at the end of the evening. Come and support your local choir and a local charity and leave feeling great!!!

Join the Mole Valley Ramblers for an informal Barn Dance on Saturday 18th October 2025, from 7 pm until 10.15 pm. Featuring the Redwing Barn Dance Band, together with a caller to lead the dances. Also includes a hot meal with meat and vegetarian options. All you need to bring is your own drinks and glasses.

A comedy tribute to this classic show, featuring all your favourite Steptoe and Son sketches on the stage.

They play with perfect intonation, tremendous attack, and impeccable historical style. All the four instruments work together with such intelligence and imagination that I would happily listen to them every day. - Sir Roger Norrington The first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of repertoire, notably from the classical and romantic eras. Formed at the Royal College of Music in London, the Consone Quartet launched their professional career in 2015, shortly after which they were awarded two prizes at the 2015 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, including the EUBO Development Trust Prize and a place on the EEEmerging Scheme in France. They went on to win the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Prize, and in 2022 were awarded a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust (BBT) fellowship. The quartet has been enthusiastically received at Londons major venues, as well as further afield in Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria and Slovenia. Festival invitations include Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Dartington, Two Moors, Buxton, MA Festival in Bruges, Heidelberger Streichquartettfest, and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. In 2024 the quartet returned to the English Haydn Festival and the York Early Music Festival, both of which are loyal supporters and regularly host the group. Consone are Artists-in-Residence at Paxton House (2023-2025) and at Saxon Shore Early Music Kenardington (2024-2027). Following tours of South America (2018) and Canada (2023) the quartet will return to North America in 2025 to perform both alone and in collaboration with pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout. 2023 saw the Consone Quartet premiere a new work for string sextet by Gavin Bryars, commissioned by friends of the Quartet, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and BBC Radio 3. The work, entitled The Bridges of Knigsberg, was broadcast on Radio 3 from St Martin-in-the-Fields in October 2023. They will further their exploration of contemporary music with the premiere of a new work for string quartet by Oliver Leith in summer 2025. Education work remains a core interest to the group, having worked with students at the Royal College of Music in London, Chethams School of Music in Manchester, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as Hans Keller fellows for 2020-2022. 2024 sees the beginning of a new partnership with the Frost Trust as Visiting Quartet at Sheffields Music in the Round. The quartets debut recording explored music by Haydn and Mendelssohn and was described by The Strad as an album that instantly leaps out of the stereo at you as something special. In Spring 2023 they released the first CD in a complete cycle of Mendelssohns string quartets with Linn Records. The album, featuring both the 1823 and Op. 44 No. 3 quartets, has been described as top-notch (Allmusic) and exquisite (Pizzicato).

Steven Devine combines a career as a conductor and director of orchestral, choral and opera repertoire with that of a solo harpsichordist and fortepianist. He is the Conductor and Artistic Advisor of The English Haydn Festival; Music Director of New Chamber Opera, Oxford and Director of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenments Bach the Universe & Everything series. On the concert platform, he has directed Purcell, Blow, Bach, Handel and Mozart with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Bach Easter Oratorio with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Haydn, Handel, CPE Bach, JC Bach, Ditterdorf and Viotti with the English Haydn Orchestra; Handel, Vivaldi and Porpora Trondheim Barokk, Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Norwegian Wind Ensemble; Handel Solomon as well as JS and CPE Bach programmes with Victoria Baroque Players, British Columbia, Handel Belshazzar at the Valetta Festival and Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks with Arion Baroque Ensemble, Montreal. He has also directed programmes with the Academy of Ancient Music, Academie dAmbronay, the Mozart Festival Orchestra and St Pauls Chamber Orchestra.