CREDITON Congregational Church will be open on the afternoon of New Year’s Day for The Music Makers’ Third annual concert by young musicians – to start the year in refreshing style.

The concert will feature around 20 locally-based players (aged from eight to 18) who are taught by a number of local music teachers.

They will play a variety of short pieces on orchestral instruments, including piano, violin, cello, clarinet and trumpet.

There will also be an eight-piece children’s ensemble, featuring members of the Gregory, Bedford and McArthur families.

One soloist, Isabel Tuffin-Donnavert, was a finalist in this year’s BBC Radio Two Young Chorister of the Year. She will sing Benjamin Britten’s New Year Carol.

The Congregational Church will be open from 2pm for refreshments before the concert, which will begin at 3pm, lasting about one hour.

Following this there will be a showing of Charlie Chaplin’s classic black and white film Modern Times – and some piano interludes by pianist Troy Sharples.

The event is open to all. Admission for the concert is £5 (under 16s free).