The Latin American Collection at St Thomas' Church Wells

Trio Paradis play a café concert on the first Monday morning of each month at St Thomas’ Church: informal music events with a pop-up café open from 10.15am where you can meet friends and make new ones over tea/coffee and home-made cakes, and enjoy live music.

February’s concert is a collection of music by South American composers to bring some sun to dark winter days… including dances (Tango, Rumba and more), alongside classical and reflective pieces. Composers include Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, the king of Argentinian Tango, Astor Piazzolla, fellow Argentinian Magdalena Garcia Robson, Cuban brother and sister composers Ernestina and Ernesto Lecuona, Mexican Manuel Ponce and Carlos Guastavino, ‘the Schubert of the Pampas’.

Concerts last c45m, and entrance - or rather, exit! - is by pay-what-you-feel donation, with a retiring collection. You might like to bring a cushion for the pew.