The festival is "resolutely classical", and makes no bones about it. But the brief to performers is to spare audiences the trying extremes of the repertoire, and to send them home with a song (or two) in their hearts

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Bramley & Little London Music Festival is the vision of Wendy Peagam, who has long admired the success of the week-long biennial Winchfield Festival, in its equally rural setting on the outskirts of Fleet, Hampshire.

Launched in July 2005, Bramley's event has four principal objectives:

To bring beautiful classical music into
beautiful St James's Church
To provide a platform for extraordinarily talented young musicians
To bring local music-lovers together, and
Having met its costs, to make a financial contribution to the upkeep of the fabric of Bramley's ancient church

All who come to the festival – to perform, or to enjoy the performers – serve some or all of these objectives, and earn the gratitude of the organisers.

The festival is resolutely classical – but asks its performers to delight and to reward its audiences, not to punish them with music from the forehead-clutching extremes of the classical repertoire.