Latest News From Keswick MUSIC SOCIETY​

Alan Jacobs, our Honorary Treasurer for many years, in fact since 2013, had been suffering from pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed in October and rapidly took hold. He died peacefully on January 11th and his family were with him. He was for all those years a constantly dependable and always humorous member of the Committee and we will miss him and his wise advice very much.

Our new Treasurer is John Harling, previously a Committee Member, and we are very grateful that he has agreed to step into Alan’s shoes.

In a very sad coincidence, we also learned in January of the sudden death of Mike Town who was our Treasurer before Alan took over. Mike had been for many years organist of Patterdale Church and frequently played for the Keswick Choral society.

We are now well into the second half of our 2025-2026 programme, and audience numbers are very encouraging with the return to Sunday concerts seeming to be popular.  Our recent guitar recital given by the brilliant Scottish player Ian Watt was a great success, and we are looking forward to the Mithras String Quartet.

We invite all our current and future members to our AGM which will take place Sunday, 5 October 6:15pm at St. John‘s in Keswick before the Handels Players Concert

The first details of our 2025 – 2026 season have now been published on our website. Brochures (including membership forms) will be uploaded shortly.