A MUSIC concert featuring ‘The Bookshop Band’ alongside children from Monmouth’s four junior schools will be taking place next month.

The event is taking place on Friday March 13 at St Catherine’s Hall at Haberdashers’ Monmouth School.

The concert of music is inspired by a love of books. It features music composed by The Bookshop Band who will also be performing with children from Haberdashers’ Monmouth School, Overmonnow Primary School, Kymin View Primary School, and Osbaston Church in Wales School.

The Bookshop Band has written fourteen studio recorded albums of music which is inspired by hundreds of authors from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman. Their work has been recognised with nominations from the Ivor Novello Awards, the Oscars and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).