Milngavie Music Club helped organise a Christmas concert for pupils from local primary schools in Bearsden and Milngavie last week.

It featured the brilliant musical duo The Classic Buskers who first came to prominence as The Cambridge Buskers in many sold-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, on radio and television and round the world.

The special concert took place at Mosshead Primary School, Bearsden and was attended by 150 P7 pupils from Baljaffray, Killermont and Castlehill primary schools as well as Mosshead.

The two musicians who are The Classic Buskers are Michael Copley and Ian Moore. Michael plays more than 40 woodwind instruments at amazing speeds, ranging from recorders, flutes, panpipes, crumhorns and ocarinas to a Pico Pipe and a rubber chicken, and Ian plays a small but perfectly-formed accordion, either pink or yellow.

They have taken their programme for children all round the world with great success; it features arrangements of popular classics ranging from Elizabethan times to the present day. As well as Western classical masterpieces, they play world folk music on rare and interesting instruments from countries as far afield as China, Japan, Bolivia and Romania.

Renaissance wind instruments appear next to a bang-up-to-date electronic saxophone and strange instruments like the monster crumhorn, the micro-ocarina and a brace of rubber chickens! Hilarious visual jokes, chat and audience participation are all part of the musical fun, making a fantastic introduction to the delights of classical music.

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Convener of Education, Councillor Eric Gotts, said, "I'd like to thank Milngavie Music Club for organising this wonderful event for our pupils. This was a unique experience for the young people and gave them an opportunity to hear music they may never have heard before and to see musical instruments I'm certain they hadn't seen before. I hope the budding young musicians in the audience were inspired by what they heard."

Milngavie Music Club received financial support from East Dunbartonshire Arts Council and Enterprise Music Scotland for the concert.

The club has been bringing top classical performers to Milngavie since 1942. Its 72nd International Concert Series continues on January 16 with a recital by the acclaimed Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson.

Milngavie Music Club President Hugh Macdonald added, "We at Milngavie Music Club are always keen to give the young people in our community a chance to be inspired by the world class musicians we bring to Milngavie. We're delighted that the brilliant Classic Buskers have agreed to do a special performance for primary school pupils in advance of their Music Club 'Christmas Crackers' concert on Friday. It's been a great collaboration with staff at Mosshead Primary and the other schools involved."