FORGOTTEN music from a century ago will be performed at Worcester's Huntingdon Hall as part of the Three Choirs Fringe Festival.

Live-a-Music hope to dispel the myth that all the music composed in the English speaking world a century ago was by white, middle-class men.

The quintet, all members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, will be performing work by female composers such as Dame Ethel Smythe and Amy Cheaney Beach, struggling to be recognised in a man's world.

The group will also showcase the work of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

"His father was from Sierra Leone and so he was a black man struggling to be accepted in Victorian society," said Tony Burrage, director and violinist with Live-a-Music.

The concert begins at 1pm today.

Later on at the Hall, The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain will give a performance conducted by Elgar Howarth.

Also on the Fringe, a group of professional singers called Triple Time will perform pieces by Rossini, Purcell and Mozart.

The concert, at St Martin's Church on London Road, begins at 7.30pm.

The Pershore Flower and Craft Show starts today, as does an exhibition of the entries for the Britain in Bloom Children's Painting Competition.

This exhibition is held all day in the All Saint's Church on Deansway, which is also holding an open day today where visitors can see the view from the tower and gain an insight into bell ringing.

For further details and tickets for these events, call the Huntingdon Hall box office on 01905 611427.