Forthcoming Concerts
Saturday 6th September 2025
We are very much looking forward to performing again at the Corn Exchange in St Ives, this time at the kind invitation of the Philosophy Group of St Ives U3A. In what promises to be a very interesting evening, the Philosophy Group will be performing The Metaphysical Play: The Cogito. HGE will be providing a musical introduction for about half-an-hour before the play including works by Haydn, Piazzolla and Granados amongst others. Tickets are free and can be obtained in person from the Corn Exchange or online from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cexevents. Doors open at 7pm and our performance starts at 7.30pm.
Below is the poster for the event with more details about the play.
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Past Performances
Friday 30th August 2024
We were delighted to perform at the Riverport Café Bar in St Ives Corn Exchange as part of ‘Chapel Arts @ the Corn Exchange’. The venue was quite a departure for us as we’re more used to playing in spacious churches with high ceilings and very different acoustics. The ‘lounge style’ of the Corn Exchange bar took a little getting used to but we greatly enjoyed the experience and the audience seemed very appreciative too. Many thanks to Chapel Arts for giving us the opportunity to be part of their programme for this year (see below).
A special mention should go to Chloe for her amazing performance. She was only just recovering from a nasty bout of Covid so had had no chance to practise with the rest of us until an hour before the concert – but, despite that, still played the flute beautifully on the Vaughn Williams and sight–read her usual Carnavalito flute part on the octave guitar instead to save her breath for the VW! Awesome!
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Saturday 1st June 2024
Our concert at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire was a very enjoyable occasion, certainly for us, and our performance seemed to go down very well with the audience, too. We would especially like to thank the organisers at the church who made us feel so welcome and also to thank everyone who came to watch and who helped to make the evening special. We much appreciated the kind comments many of you offered during the interval and at the end. The programme included our first performance of the Vaughn Williams Folk Song Suite in full with Chloe’s lovely flute playing being a particular highlight.
Here’s a photo of us in rehearsal and, below that, a link to the concert poster.
poster: Great Gransden
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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