A wonderful evening of music at Otley Rugby Club ended with the audience shouting for more and a request that this successful concert should become an annual event.

The accomplished Fairfax Singers, under their conductor Dorothy Hawkshaw and accompanist Julie Wilson, had a delightful mixture of songs, being joined by the two wonderful soloists, soprano Joanne Dexter and baritone Neil Baker, for Toreador and You’ll Never Walk Alone, ending their session with rousing rendition of Take Me Home, Country Roads.

With Richard Kenwood Herriott at the piano these two delighted the audience with their brilliant singing of a variety of operatic and familiar showstoppers.

The programme began and ended with the Sellers International Youth Brass Band who, under their Director, Mark Bousie, had people dancing to their rock numbers, their verve and enthusiasm shining through the maturity of their performance.

With the sun long gone and with candles shining on the picnic tables and in the gazebos the flags came out with a traditional close, featuring all the performers and the audience as everyone joined in Rule Britannia, Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory. Encores were demanded and people left delighted that Otley could produce such an event.