Blues gig raises more than £1,000 for Chipping Campden Music Festival

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CHIPPING Campden people got the blues at a sold-out concert that raised more than £1,000 for the town’s annual music festival.

A Blues Evening with Connie Lush was staged in the main hall at Chipping Campden School.

Connie Lush is an award-winning blues musician who headlined the Liverpool City of Culture opening ceremony.

Rhys Froggatt, an information technology technician at the school, organised the gig with William Bennett who is the son of Charlie Bennett who owns Campden’s Bennett’s Fine Wine shop.

Rhys is also a pianist and plays the organ in the town’s Saint James’ parish church, where he is also a church warden and which is Chipping Campden Music Festival’s usual venue.

He and William made a two-course meal, from locally sourced food, for the 200 guests who enjoyed beer supplied by Campden’s Eight Bells pub.

Rhys, who thanked Campden’s W.Haines and Sons for donating the vegetables, said money raised at the concert would enable the festival to attract more accomplished musicians.