YOUNG singers from Kidderminster have their lederhosen and habits at the ready as they are preparing to bring the Sound of Music to a Wyre Forest school.

Four to nine-year-olds in Primary Chords - the children's branch of Kidderminster Choral Society - are performing sing-a-long-a Sound of Music at Baxter College Theatre on Saturday, July 9 and the narrator of the production, Judy Bassett says a "great time" is being had by all.

She explained the children would sing their hearts out dressed as the von Trapp youngsters and nuns from the much-loved musical.

Eighteen-year-old Stacie Palmer-Young and 15-year-old Jack Ludwig from the choir's sister society, Wyre Forest Young Voices, will perform the parts of Maria and the captain.

Mrs Bassett, whose daughter Katherine, 10, was a member of Primary Chords until last year, said conductor, Carol Hill, had decided to organise the latest production because the children loved the musical score from the Sound of Music.

"Carol is an absolutely fantastic driving force behind the choir," she said.

"She's done so much with these children, it's incredible."

The 50-year-old mum-of-two, whose eldest daughter Laura has featured in the Shuttle/Times & News as one of the celebrated Young Proms' fund-raisers for Kemp Hospice, said the audience would join in with such popular favourites as The Sound of Music, Doh a Deer and Edelweiss.

More information and tickets for the concert, which starts at 6.30pm, are available from Kidderminster Library, which can be contacted on 01562 824500.

They can also be obtained by calling 01562 861924.