Wednesday 1st February 2012

A very warm welcome to my website. I hope you will enjoy finding your way around. There are serious bits and not-so-serious; and I hope that you will have a giggle over part of the Gallery section which includes photographs and features! Please also do have a look at the Radio 2 Good Morning Sunday link, also within the Gallery section.

Well, here we are in February! And it certainly feels like it outside too! I hope you are managing to keep warm, wherever you are. Christmas always seems a long time ago when we are at the beginning of a year, but I hope you enjoyed a happy festive period - personally I love Boxing Day and New Year's Day as they are both times of enormous peace. I remember with great affection the turning of the millenium - I was staying with friends in Swanage and we had a beautiful morning walk along the ridge of the Purbeck Hills to Corfe Castle. The church bells were ringing in the distance and got louder as we neared Corfe, and we enjoyed the bunting and the whole spirit of the moment as we entered the village. It was wonderful.

The period can also be one of great sadness for many. If you are struggling with sad feelings right now may you remember that you are not alone, and be strong. And this is the message on our new recording... scroll down to read more, and there is more to follow!

We must of course look forward. This will be a year of celebrations, most notably the Queen's Diamond Jubilee which will in my view be an amazing occasion. But this is also an opportunity to reflect on what has gone before. I have been looking back on music-making over the last twelve months, and especially to the performances and to all the delightful people to whom I played. I also had great fun giving five local radio interviews - two over the phone and three in the studio - there are three here for you if you would like to listen. Firstly on Wednesday 24th August with Debbie McCrory on BBC Radio Cornwall - really good fun and we had a giggle - you can listen to it HERE - then one with Emma Philpotts on Radio Norfolk on Sunday 7th August. Click HERE to listen to this one. And finally with Tim Daykin on Radio Solent earlier on in the year (13th February).  Solent is my local station - Tim presents the early Sunday morning programme, and plays our music from time to time. It was a lovely opportunity to say a little more about our music.  Hear the interview by clicking HERE. I very much look forward to more music-making and playing, and more radio interviews, over the coming year. I am going to be performing in some wonderful locations, including over the border in Wales! I feel enormously privileged. Please see the Diary page for further details.

John and I are very much looking forward to sharing some new music with you. Over the past sixteen months or so we have been working on some new tracks for a new CD album to which we are putting the final touches. Entitled Words Will Never Be Enough this is another compilation of well-known hymns and ballads as well as our own compositions. And I very much hope that you will enjoy listening to it as much as John and I have enjoyed making and producing it. All being well we are looking to a release date at the end of March. Further details will follow... watch this space!

I am increasingly being asked where our music is available. Apart from our own Online Shop, and a number of internet sites, our CDs are on sale in a number of individual shops around the country, mainly Christian bookshops. They are also on sale in the Wesley Owen stores in the following eight cities: Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Bromley, Coleraine, Derby, Glasgow and York.

Happy listening!

Wishing you much happiness and peace for 2012.

Charles