Amazing musicians Ethan & Braimah starring at festival

experience through working with the talented teacher of the blind Daniel Kish, using echo-location. Ethan has perfect pitch and can even tell the pitch of a washing machine or your voice.

The organisers are thrilled to welcome Ethan to the Beaminster Festival and he will be playing Bach’s Partita No.1 in B Flat; 2 Preludes by Debussy and Chopin’s Piano Sonata No.3 in B Minor. His recital will be on

Wednesday, June 28 at 11.30am, tickets £12

The festival is in its 26th year and there will be a feast of theatre, music, art and literature between June 11 and July 2. Tickets for the general public will be on sale from April 13 and avialable at beaminsterfestival.com

Braimah Kanneh-Mason, elder brother of Sheku (who played the cello at Harry and Meghan’s wedding), will be opening the series of fantastic concerts at the 2023 Beaminster Festival on Sunday, June 25 at 7.30pm.

Braimah on violin, together with Junyan Chen on piano, will perform an imaginative programme including music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Brahms, full of melody and virtuosity.

The famous KannehMason family, with seven gifted musical children, are currently featured on Classic FM on Sundays at 9pm. Across six weeks, the family – mum Kadiatu, dad Stuart, Isata, Braimah, Sheku, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata and Mariatu –will share their favourite classical music and the pieces which have inspired them throughout their lives, both as a family and individually, and reveal their best-loved performances.

It’s Braimah’s turn to shine on March 12 and the programme may feature him playing the beautiful Schindler’s List. Catch it also at beaminsterfestival. com