CHAMPION accordion player Thom Hardaker will perform at a charity concert at St Stephen’s Church in Steeton.
He will join six singers performing classical, folk and theatre songs on August 27 during the concert, entitled Music For A Summer’s Evening.
The singers include Doreen Smith and Beverley Shuttleworth, who have performed with Sutton’s Green Hut Theatre Company, and renowned local singer Hilda Harrison.
The singers will be accompanied by musician Mary Seaford.
Thom Hardaker began studying accordion as a child with teacher Harry Hinchcliffe, founder of the Craven Accordion Orchestra, at the Craven School of Music in Cross Hills.
As a teenager he studied in St Petersburg under world-renowned accordion tutor Oleg Sharov and he plays in genres including folk, classical and world music.
In 2009, while at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in St Petersburg, he took first prize in the city’s Baltic Accordion Festival.
The concert begins at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £5 on the door, with proceeds supporting the church and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
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