Playing for Pleasure

Live music is always a special treat and an afternoon of chamber music in a private house makes it all the more exceptional.
 
The occasion was a fundraising event for 
Pollok House Arts Society and the musicians were a group of women who first met as students at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
 
Fifty years later, Shona Gidney, Angela Welch, Phyllis Strachan and Anne McKinnes still maintain that friendship, they love of music and today after a lifetime working as  professional musicians they now play for pleasure.
 
Shona, their leader, explained that this is how Schubert would have performed -in a private house to a group of friends.
 
   
The afternoon began with drinks in the beautiful garden belonging to Rosemary Leckie in Bridge of Allan and ended with a delicious tea of home baking.