SAY BONJOUR TO FRANCAIS WITH MK SINFONIA

Swap the new city for the more evocative regions of France this weekend, without leaving town.

Milton Keynes Sinfonia has the power, and they'll show you how to make a temporary escape through music on Saturday (July 2).

Soprano Lottie Greenhow will be heading up the concert at St Mary and St Giles Church in Stony Stratford, and it's a show that is promising to put the church and it's newly-refurbished Willis organ through its paces.

Lottie will wow when she delivers Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, and esteemed organist William Thallon will be the soloist for Poulenc's Oegan Concerto and in one of the giants of the organists' repertoire, Saint Saens' Symphony Number 3, his Organ Symphony.

The concert will begin at 7.30pm and tickets will be available on the door, or in advance by calling up 01908 377518.