AS Scarborough’s legendary Spa Orchestra prepares for a summer of glorious music and sunshine, details of their gala night programme have been announced.

Now taking place on Wednesdays at 7.45pm, these much-loved themed nights will show off the orchestra’s vast repertoire.

The first of the guest singers will appear in an evening devoted to Cole Porter (June 20). Michelle Todd and Tom Solomon have between them starred in some of the West End’s biggest shows and they will return later in the summer with a programme called West End to Broadway (August 15).

A very special night leading up to Armed Forces Day will be a concert called Remember (June 27) to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. In conjunction with the Royal British Legion, the evening will include a moving Act of Remembrance, as well as a programme of suitable music.

Two concerts with an international flavour will present rousing and stirring favourites. American Independence Day (July 4) will be an excuse to raise the roof with great show tunes. Heading east instead of west for another gala evening, the orchestra will present a show called Russian Roulette (July 18).

Gilbert and Sullivan fans (July 25) will not be disappointed with a concert devoted to their comic operas with four top soloists to ensure first class entertainment.

More shows will reveal the amazing versatility of the Spa Orchestra. August 1 will see them jazzing it up in a programme called In the Mood with great dance band tunes and rhythms, and the following Wednesday will see them perform the beautiful music of Vienna by the Strauss family and their friends.

No Spa Orchestra summer season would be complete without a visit from the orchestra's Three Tenors, who will be thrilling the Grand Hall audience on August 22.

Taking a break from the Spa and moving for one night only into Peasholm Park, the orchestra will present songs and tunes from stage and screen, once again with the terrific voices of Michelle Todd and Tom Solomon on Friday, August 24.

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