Many thanks to the Pelléas Ensemble for giving us a memorable end last Saturday to a memorable 70th season. If you were in the audience you'll have seen a preview of our next season, and you'll know what delights are in store. Give us a few weeks, please, to refresh our website, and all the details will be posted here.

A couple of admin matters:

• Our AGM is at 19:30 on Wednesday 13 June, at the Black Lion, Finkle Street, Richmond. It lasts about half an hour and anyone may attend, member or not.
• You may have heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It comes into effect in April and it requires any organisation which stores and uses people's contact data (= us) to seek explicit permission from those people (= you). So we will be getting in touch with you shortly, and would be very glad if you would confirm your willingness for us to stay in touch with you. More, later.

118 enthusiasts braved the wintry conditions to get to our last concert, when they enjoyed a delightful performance by the Gildas Quartet and soprano Raphaela Papadakis. That was a tremendous turnout on a night when a number of local events were cancelled and we had been expecting maybe a dozen people... Our thanks to the artists, to the staff of the Influence Church, to our own volunteers and of course to the audience. And to those who weren't able to get there, we're sorry, but we're very glad you decided to play it safe.

It's been snowing again in Richmond, and it's bitterly cold today - but the forecast for our next concert, on 24 March, is "Sunny intervals and breezy" with a top temperature of 10°. That's more like it!

Sorry to be so late with this confirmation, but train services have been erratic, and our final musician has just arrived at Darlington Station. So we can now be 99.9% certain that tonight's snow-threatened concert will take place as planned.

​We hope to see you shortly.

The musicians are en route, and tonight's concert is still expected to start on time. As soon as it's 100% certain, we'll email everyone on our mailing list and post another update here.