MUSIC for a Summer's Evening is the title of a charity concert at St Stephen’s Church in Steeton.

The August 27 concert will feature six singers performing classical, folk and theatre songs.

They include Doreen Smith and Beverley Shuttleworth, who has performed with Sutton’s Green Hut Theatre Company, and renowned local singer Hilda Harrison.

Champion accordion player Thom Hardaker, from Sutton, will also perform, and the singers will be accompanied by musician Mary Seaford.

The concert begins at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £5 on the door, with proceeds supporting the church and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

Thom Hardaker began studying accordion as a child with teacher Harry Hinchcliffe, founder of the Craven Accordion Orchestra, at the Craven School of Music in Cross Hills.

As a teenager he studied in St Petersburg under world-renowned accordion tutor Oleg Sharov and he plays in genres including folk, classical and world music.

In 2009, while at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, he took first prize in the Baltic Accordion Festival in St Petersburg.