GRASSINGTON Singers will present a concert for peace in the village's Methodist Church on Sunday.

It will feature popular music from Welsh composer Karl Jenkins’s The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace and works by Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, including Veni Sancte Spiritus and choral classics Ave Verum Corpus and Laudate Dominum.

The soloist for the latter piece will be soprano Lucy Morton, from Harrogate, who is currently completing her final year at Birmingham Conservatoire.

Lucy already has an extensive track record of successful performances, which includes appearances at Leeds Town Hall in Haydn’s Creation and Nelson Mass. On the operatic stage, Lucy has performed in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, Bizet’s Carmen as well as roles in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Janá?ek’s Cunning Little Vixen.

Her most recent venture has been to direct and perform in Little Match Girl Passion, by American composer David Lang, at the Frontiers Festival in Birmingham.

For the Grassington concert, Lucy will also perform songs by Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir, Handel and Hugo Wolf and the programme will be completed by a number of African songs and spirituals.

The concert will mark the local debut of Grassington Singers' new musical director Graham Coatman.

He has been director of the Leeds Guild of Singers, based at Leeds University, for about 12 years and has also conducted the Hepton Singers, of Hebden Bridge, and Huddersfield University Chamber Choir.

He is director of a small singing charity, 20,000 Voices, encouraging singing across Northumberland and the north east. In March 2015 he brought together and conducted a chorus of 70 singers to launch Russell Watson’s 2015 UK Tour in a sellout concert at Whitley Bay Playhouse.

The Grassington concerts starts at 3pm and tickets cost £5 in advance or £7 on the door. For more information, email info@grassingtonsingers.co.uk