NOT content with staging a ‘happening’ on Poole High Street tomorrow afternoon, the Wessex Consort is to perform an informal concert that evening.

The super choir of 12 young professional singers is staging a ‘Flash Mob’ performance at 2pm tomorrow in Poole High Street, followed by a matinee performance at Wesley’s community café in The Spire and an evening concert from 7.30pm at East Holme near Wareham.

Graham Stansfield, composer and the choir’s founder, said: “We wanted to have some fun with the people of Poole by way of a warm up before the evening performance by the beautiful lake at Holme For Gardens."

On Saturday members of the Wessex Consort will be sat with customers at Wesley’s community café at The Spire, a converted church on Poole High Street. At 2pm, under their distinguished conductor Andrew King (BBC Singers, King’s College Cambridge, The Sixteen) the singers will spring into action and perform a short programme of music from its repertoire including Le Train, a gospel number entitled Sing Hallelujah and Gastronomic, a celebration of good food and drink, both composed by Graham and included on their latest CD A Choir For All Seasons on Aeterna Records.

Graham added: “This is a Dorset choir singing songs about Dorset to the people of Dorset – for free!”

"What better way to liven up Poole High Street on a Saturday afternoon?”

After the warm up ‘happening’ at Wesley’s, the choir will give a 3pm matinee concert at The Spire with admission by donation (suggested £5) and that evening the Wessex Consort, with Andrew King conducting, will perform Portraits of Dorset, an informal concert at the lakeside Holme For Gardens restaurant at East Holme, presenting a varied programme of musical portraits of Dorset life.

Tickets for the concert at Holme For Gardens are £10 and include a light buffet. Available on 01929 554716, orchard@holmeforgardens.co.uk