Horsham

MelodyTimes Horsham

We meet at 2.30pm on the second Wednesday of each month, so we can all travel in daylight. Our venue is the friendly and comfortable Roffey Club, which is in Spooners Road, Roffey, Horsham, RH12 4DY. Doors normally open a half an hour before the concert starts. Admission is £10.00 per person and is payable in cash on the door. There is a licensed bar at the venue, where they also sell teas and coffees. If you have any queries or would like more information about our Horsham concerts, please e-mail info@melodytimes.co.uk or telephone Dave on 07925 383 744 or Michael on 07748 113 975. For access queries only, the Roffey Club number is 01403 210 223.

Directions

Spooners Road is a turning off of Crawley Road, which runs between the Tesco Express Roundabout (Rusper Rd/Kings Rd etc) at the west and the B2195 Crawley Road/Harwood Road at the east. Once in Spooners Road, you will find the club entrance is a narrow driveway in the north-west corner, between houses. There is ample free parking at the club.

Concert Dates

2025 Wednesday 12th February at 2.30pm - The Doctor’s In The House! A friendly afternoon of popular big band, show, Latin and orchestral music with our very own Doctor of Music, CHRIS STANBURY playing his Yamha Stagea Wednesday 12th March at 2.30pm - A rare treat, as we welcome top show Musical Director and Pianist MARK THOMPSON back by popular demand with a lively afternoon of music for all on his Yamaha Organ Wednesday 9th April at 2.30pm - Everyone’s favourite musical entertainer, TONY STACE travels down from Yorkshire to entertain us at his Yamaha HX1 Wednesday 14th May at 2.30pm - The UK’s Golden Girl of the Keyboards, Resident Organist at the world famous Blackpool Tower Ballroom, ELIZABETH HARRISON with her Yamaha Stagea Wednesday 11th June at 2.30pm - Star of the Drawtones, heard at renowned venues including the famous Ronnie Scott’s and Pizza Express Jazz venues, ROD POOLEY is back, playing his Bohm Sempra Touring Organ and Korg Pa5X Wednesday 9th July at 2.30pm - An afternoon of musical favourites with Norfolk based musical entertainer, DAVID THOMAS playing Roland Atelier Wednesday 13th August at 2.30pm - The master musician himself, celebrating 50 years in music, the incomparable vocal and keyboard talent of PETE SHAW with his Korg Pa5X and Nautillus Keyboards Wednesday 10th September at 2.30pm - Music Music Music! Back by popular demand, world renowned organist MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE is joined by ‘drummer to the stars’ DEAN MORRIS Wednesday 8th October at 2.30pm - An afternoon of popular music with GARY HEAD playing his fabulous Yamaha Genos2 Wednesday 12th November at 2.30pm - The first visit to Horsham of Blackpool Tower Resident Organist MARK SPEIGHT playing big band and orchestral favourites on his Yamaha Stagea Wednesday 10th December at 2.30pm - A festive treat, STEVE HUBBLE is back with an afternoon of Christmas Cheer playing his Korg Pa5X History Horsham MelodyTimes was started out of the embers of the old Horsham Organ & Keyboard Society (HOKS), a group which had prospered in the area for over 37 years. With the committee all feeling it was the time to step down, the club closed at the end of 2017. Organists Michael Wooldridge and Chris Stanbury had both enjoyed long associations with the Society and decided it would be sad to let our kind of music disappear from the area, so in June 2018 they launched Horsham MelodyTimes Concerts, changing venue from the previous HOKS venue to the Roffey Club, a venue they both liked from playing there for Sunday evening ballroom dances; they both felt it had just the right warm atmosphere, plus free parking and a licensed bar, making it ideal for concert gatherings. Since then they have been pleased to be able to bring some of the UK’s finest keyboard entertainers to the town and are now thrilled to have passed the reins over to local enthusiast Dave Braithwaite. Our small but loyal audience all love the live music and the opportunity to meet with one another in such friendly surroundings.