JULIA Garbutt is one of the area’s best known singers. She has a fabulous voice and has put it to good use in musicals and more recently with cabaret group, Miscellany.
This talented performer has also become a firm favourite with the hundreds who turn out every year to Concert On The Hill. And yes, she’ll be back there with the choirs and brass band for this year’s event at Laund Hill on July 6.
Before all of that though, Julia has a special date. At a concert which has strong family connections.
She hopes you will join her at St Barnabas Parish Church at Crosland Moor on June 27 for an evening of song with her guests.
Among those guests will be her daughter Amelia, 10, and her nephew Thomas Garbutt who is 16.
Thomas is very much at the heart of this event as it is to raise money to help send him and some of his Greenhead College friends to Mozambique where they hope to make a real difference to communities there.
Thomas and other students will be joining aid workers next summer and they plan to build a classroom for a school in a remote village.
“It’s only accessible on foot and so they will have a lot of walking and carrying to do,” said Julia.
She’s rounded up some of her many singing friends to help Thomas towards the £4,000 he needs to raise.
“They are paying not only their own costs but the cost of materials they will need to do the work ,” she said.
Julia will headline the concert but is joined by Martin Stead and Tom Waltham.
“We will all be singing our usual musical theatre, through to light operetta collection and also another Miscellany colleague Mike Goodwin will be with us performing his funny monologues.
“My special guests are the Junior and Senior choirs from Huddersfield Young Singers which Thomas and my daughter Amelia are both in and they are just fab.”
The concert begins at 7pm next Thursday and tickets are £8 (concessions £6) including refreshments.
They are available on 01484 644483.
This should be a great musical treat with lots of favourite songs sung by some of the best talent around.
