Musical Duo Get Toes Tapping at Church Harvest Supper

Draft press release for all local media outlets:

Last night a musical duo burst onto the mid-Wales scene with a ground-breaking debut performance at the recently-opened Upper Room at St Peter's Church, Machynlleth.

My first butternut squash, weighing in at just under 1kg.

To a packed room “Anna and Matt” as the duo are known played a fairly brief set lasting no more than forty-five minutes, but what a forty-five minutes. The audience, having just finished a delicious three-course “Harvest Supper” meal in a rather warm environment, would in normal circumstances have been hard-pressed to stay awake through any type of post-prandial entertainment, but it is testament to the couple's abilities that not a single person was asleep at 8pm as the set drew to a close.

Is it a plane? No it's a home-made polytunnel scrubbing brush

Although the performers, who are rumoured to be an “item”, began on violin and keyboard, they didn't stay on these instruments for long. After a couple of Gershwin numbers, followed by some Handel and then Shostakovich's Gadfly, they traded places, the beautiful Anna taking a seat behind the keyboard and the rather more hirsute Matt picking up an alto saxophone. Toes began to tap and a few hummed along to renditions of Sweet Georgia Brown and On The Sunny Side Of The Street.

All change please! This time, Matt picked up the acoustic guitar and Anna found her violin again, or should I say fiddle as the climax of the evening was a medley of folk tunes. Starting with the bittersweet Scarborough Fair, in which both added their vocal cords to their instruments, they swiftly upped the tempo with five or six English fiddle melodies. The audience clapped along, and as the music sped up so did the accompanying claps - or at least those who could keep up did!

A box of kittens

Anna and Matt were presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a bottle of wine to thank them for their diverse and interesting performance. “Something a bit different!” was the phrase on everyone's lips. We can expect to see more of this dynamic duo in the future no doubt. Maybe they'll even have their own music stands next time.