A BROMSGROVE concert club will come up against the very best from the top and tail of the country when they vie for a top award.

Last week the Advertiser/Messenger revealed Bromsgrove Concerts' Mixing Music programme had been short-listed for this year's Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Awards.

Now, we can reveal the other two contenders for in the concert series and festivals category. They are the Edinburgh International Festival, which holds £5 nights at the Usher Hall and the Britten Sinfonia Norwich/Cambridge Series at South Bank Centre in London.

Royal Philharmonic Society chairman Tony Fell said: "The RPS music awards are the antidote to commercially driven awards which value celebrity above true artistic achievement.

"The short-lists are a clear demonstration that, despite the odds, in all fields and on every scale, fervent musical imagination and artistic invention is very much alive."

Mixing Music is now in it's 12th year and features four or five contemporary music concerts each season at the New Guesten Hall, in Redditch Road, Stoke Heath.

The nomination for volunteer-driven concert club is also being seen as a boost for Birmingham's European Capital of Culture bid.

Dame Felicity Lott will present the awards at the Dorchester Hotel in London next month.