TOMORROW’S Music Makers’ “Saturday 12 o’clock Pops” performance is given by 17-year-old QE Academy student Daniel Toll, who recently attained a diploma in piano performance from the London College of Music.

The event takes place at Crediton Congregational Church from 12 noon on August 21, with doors open for refreshments from 11.30am. Parking is available at the church.

These short performances of around 30 minutes offer an easily accessible opportunity to listen to some of the best locally-based performers, and a variety of fine music played on a good modern grand piano.

Admission is free, but donations are invited towards musicians’ expenses. The Music Makers’ is grateful for the grant support of Crediton Town Council, and for the kind sponsorship of Stapleton’s, chartered accountants.

Having studied piano with pianist and local choir leader Tim Matthews, Daniel Toll has also been a mainstay of the Crediton Youth Orchestra, and has been the principal accompanist for musical drama events at QE. His programme will include pieces by Frederic Handel, Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy and Philip Glass.

Subject to the weather on Bank Holiday Monday (August 30), a “Grand Piano on the Square!” event will take place on the Town Square, Crediton. Between 11am and 2pm a number of good locally-based pianists, including some performing duets, will turn The Square into an outdoor concert auditorium.

The Welmar grand piano, normally housed at the Congregational Church, will be professionally moved to The Square in the morning, installed under a gazebo, and professionally re-tuned before the performances start.

Paul Vincent, organiser of The Music Makers’ events, says: "We did this last year at the invitation of Crediton Arts Centre - as a sort of musical stunt - but it attracted so many people who stopped to listen, and I think were surprised at the presence of a grand piano on The Square. As long as the weather looks favourable, we’ll be going ahead, and I hope it will be a memorable way of spending the last Bank Holiday of the summer.”