Make a visit to St Mary’s Church in Attleborough on the weekend of 1 and 2 June and you will be assured of a feast for the senses.
There will be a Flower Festival – ‘A Musical Bouquet’ – in the church on both days. Admission is free and there will be a collection to support the Attleborough Music Project (AMP), an inspiring venture that aims to create a centre of excellence for music in the region.
Each of the flower arrangements displayed inside the church, will be focussed around music – with inspiration from sources as wide as Bob Marley, Louis Armstrong, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Puccini, The Beatles and Rimsky-Korsakov.
The monthly Artisan Market will be the churchyard in the morning on the Saturday. There will also be the opportunity to bring those items whose value you have often wondered about to an Auction Valuation Day from 10am until 3pm inside the church. At 7.30pm there will be a concert by Norwich Baroque, with soprano Sarahjane Stephen, entitled ‘Li Fiori: musical flower gardens of the 17th century’. This will include music by Purcell, Kapsberger, Schenk, and others, with tickets (priced at £15, under 18s go free) available on the door or online from the church website.
On the Sunday, following the 10am Parish Eucharist, there will be another opportunity to view the flower arrangements from 12 noon. Cream teas will be served from 1-4pm and this ‘musical bouquet’ of a weekend will be brought to a fitting end with a celebration service at 5pm.
