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Thanks for visiting the Peter Aston website and welcome to the September 2020 update - so I guess the Summer is officially over although we're still enjoying some warm days.  The good news is that, slowly and cautiously, we're starting to emerge from the live music lockdown and I have some appearances coming up this month although most of my live performances have been either postponed or cancelled altogether.  Thankfully some events (mainly weddings) have been re-arranged for next year when hopefully things will have returned to something a bit more like normal.  I'm continuing to record my programmes 'Forest Folk' and '33 and a Third' from my home studio and I'm also enjoying the wonders of Zoom to enable the sharing of virtual church services each Sunday and for virtual family get-togethers.  At Holtwood Methodist Church we're also continuing to stream virtual services on our Facebook page which is:-

www.facebook.com/holtwoodmethodistchurch/live 

We re-opened our church buildings in a limited way on Sunday 6th September.  I'll keep this website and my social media pages up-to-date with the latest news and, in the meantime, do continue to try and follow the scientific advice.

If you're visiting this site for the first time, a quick introduction - I'm Peter Aston, a Christian singer/songwriter and worship leader based at Holtwood Methodist Church which is a welcoming, evangelical church in an idyllic location near Wimborne, close to the south coast of England.  As a member of HMB I also play guitar, sing and help to lead services at churches in and around Dorset  The HMB flautist Becky Neale and I also give concerts in our local area - and occasionally much further away!

I'm delighted to present two programmes for Forest FM92.3, based in East Dorset.  'Forest Folk' is on air at 8.00 on Mondays, the programme streams at www.forestfm.co.uk and you can also listen-again from Tuesdays at www.mixcloud.com/ForestFolk/  And then on Friday evenings at 7.00 I present '33 and a Third' which is an hour of classic and rarely-heard album tracks.  Again this programme is streamed and is also available to listen-again on Mixcloud. 

I'm also the caller/guitarist/singer for the Cottage Industry ceilidh band, a solo singer/songwriter and a medieval wandering minstrel known as Master Peter of Fayrewood.  As a solo entertainer I appear at many retirement homes and day centres and for charitable and other events, singing everything from war-time sing-along classics, through the 50's & 60's pop songs to traditional and original songs.

For the past few years I've also been doing my thespian bit as a member of the 'Open the Book' Team which takes dramatised, costumed and propped (if that's a word!) presentations of Bible stories into local 1st Schools - a tremendous privilege!

Dates for September 2020

Most of my live events have been postponed or cancelled due to the Coronavirus precautions although, thankfully, some appearances have been confirmed:-

10th     Retirement Home in Poole (outdoor private event)

13th     Crowe Hill Methodist Church (3.00)

16th     Retirement Home in Cranborne (outdoor private event) 

To find out more about what I get up to please click on the banner at the top of this page - hope to catch up with you somewhere down the road!

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