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 Twenty nine years ago this May I played my first concert at the Brigton Festival Fringe. I was a nervous 17 year old pitching up at the Wagner Hall round the back of Churchill Square, my Mum had booked the venue and we'd had a special rubber stamp made by a shop halfway up Elm Grove so we could hand print some tickets.
 On the night a good crowd turned up and I plucked my way through Britten's Nocturnal, some Lauro, some early music and a new piece I'd written myself for guitar and two cellos. My buddies Peter Copley and Graham Browne from the Brighton Youth Orchestra performed on this one (and after the gig we had as much curry as a 17 year old can take).
This year I'm returning to the festival once again where I will perform Britten's Nocturnal in a different setting. I've swapped the Wagner Hall for Brighton's awesome St Bartholomew's Church. This building has one of the highest ceilings in Europe and an acoustic to match so I'll be using no amplification at all. The programme will also include Walton's "Five Bagatelles", some Bach and several of my own pieces.
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