Forthcoming Concerts
Saturday 1st June 2024
Our next performance is at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire. The concert starts at 7 pm and tickets, costing £10 for adults and £4 for under 18’s, are available from the Ticket Source website, from Great Gransden Village Shop, by calling 01767 677906 or by emailing ssulledit@aol.com. Click the link below to see the poster with full details.
poster: Great Gransden
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Friday 30th August 2024
Also, we are delighted to be performing at the Riverport Café Bar in St Ives Corn Exchange as part of ‘Chapel Arts @ the Corn Exchange’. The concert starts at 7.30 pm and tickets, at £10 each, are available from the Bar or from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cexevents.
Past Performances
17th June 2023
On 17th June 2023 we made our third visit to St. Peter’s Church, Offord D’Arcy and played a programme including works by Handel, Haydn, Granados, Vaughn Williams and Mozart, along with some traditional tunes arranged for guitar ensemble. We enjoyed a pleasant summer evening’s music making with an appreciative audience and here are some photos from our rehearsal …
poster: Offord D’Arcy
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25th March 2023
We performed in All Saints Church, Pidley-cum-Fenton. The concert was well attended by a very appreciative audience. The programme included a variety of music to suit all tastes including Granados, Mozart, Vaughn Williams, O’Carolan, Haydn, Duarte, and much more.
poster: Pidley-cum-Fenton
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11th February 2023
We played a short set of pieces as guests of Raunds Community Choir at their ‘Valentine’s Voices’ concert in the Saxon Hall, Raunds. The event was a charity fund-raiser for the Twinkling Stars Appeal which is raising money to build a bereavement suite for Kettering General Hospital maternity unit. Our programme was: Yellow Bird, Yesterday, Carnavalito, The Crystal Spring and the Rondo from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Our thanks go to RCC for inviting us again … and for the very kind gifts of flowers and chocolates!
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We performed for the first time since Covid restrictions ended, at a summer concert on 16th July 2022 at Houlton School near Rugby. Here’s the poster for the event giving details …
Houlton School Summer Recital poster
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6th December 2021
Unfortunately the Raunds Community Choir Christmas concert has had to be cancelled due to a significant increase in the number of Covid cases in the local area. This has been a great disappointment both to the choir and to HGE. It is hoped to organise another event sometime next year.
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We gave two concerts in the Huntingdon area in summer 2019. The first was on Saturday 22nd June 2019 at St Peter’s Church in Offord D’Arcy.
poster: Offord D’Arcy
The second was on Saturday 13th July 2019 at the Church of St Peter in Old Hurst.
On Sunday 5th August 2018, we performed at the East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) fund-raising garden party in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire. The event raised over £7,000 for the charity.
Click on the link below to see the flyer with full details of the event …
We had a very enjoyable time playing at the ‘Christmas Wassail Evening’ in the Saxon Hall, Raunds as guests of Raunds Community Choir on 9th December 2017. The event included performances by the choir and by students from Manor School as well as some poetry readings and community carols. We played some of our favourites including parts of the Connemara Suite, Carnavalito and, in a festive mood, the traditional Spanish Christmas song ‘Brincan y Bailan’. This is the poster for the event …
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The Huntingdonshire Guitar Ensemble performed at St. Rumbald Church in Stoke Doyle (near Oundle, Northants) on Saturday 25th March 2017. The concert was a joint event with The Ensemble of Friends chamber choir directed by Douglas Coombes, MBE …
Here’s the concert poster … 
and here’s HGE’s programme …
From the Andes Whitworth
Connemara Suite Szordikowski
Planxty Irwin (O’Carolan) / The Foggy Dew (Trad.) / Hewlett (O’Carolan)
Sarabande Variee Haendel arr: Rivoal
Spanish Folk Songs Trad. arr: Bonell
Brincan y bailan / Ines
Ashokan Farewell Jay Ungar
Carnavalito Trad. arr: Zaradin
English Suite Duarte
Rufty Tufty / The Crystal Spring / The Black Nag
Sonata 45 Soler arr: Brattland
Menuett and Trio Boccherini arr: Gotze