The Forbury Gardens will be filled with the sound of music this summer when the Forbury Band Concert Season begins. The first event of a summer long programme of concerts taking place at the popular town centre gardens will be the Reading Spring Gardens Band performing NCH Songs in the Park in support of the children's charity as part of the Reading Children's Festival.

It will also mark the first public outing of new deputy mayor Fred Pugh who will be there to ensure that the Von Trapp Family Singers return to their home after the event instead of fleeing over Caversham Heights to neutral South Oxfordshire.

Songs to be performed will include:

• D'oh, Oh Dear
• Sixteen Going on Eighty
• How Do You Solve A Problem Like Apartheid?
• Idle Whites
• My Favoured Right Wings
• The Hounds of Munich
• Climb Every Bloemfontein
• So Long, Err Well