Blewett contacted 25 musicians she knew and organised a free-to-attend concert. “We thought we’d make a concert of light music, we’ve even got the tune to the Vicar of Dibley – everyone knows that,” she said.<\/p>\n
Blewett founded the Cotswold Flute Choir in 1985, which saw her perform in Malta, Spain and Italy.<\/p>\n
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She has been a professional flute player in Gloucestershire for more than four decades and said it was “quite easy” to decide to give back nine months after her successful surgery.<\/p>\n
Speaking about the concert, she said: “Some [of the musicians] had breast cancer, some have bowel cancer and some of them have been treated in Cheltenham and Gloucester as well.”<\/p>\n
Community fundraiser Imogen Sims said the planned “state-of-the-art” cancer centre, for which half the money has already been raised, would “transform cancer care” in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n
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The planned centre at Cheltenham General Hospital would have a therapeutic garden [Cheltenham & Gloucester Hospitals Charity]<\/p>\n
“Oncology staff are incredible but unfortunately the building does let us down and we desperately need a new building,” she added.<\/p>\n
The new space would include patient rooms, space for research trials and a therapeutic garden. Existing facilities in the current oncology centre would also be improved.<\/p>\n
A Spring Wind Serenade, the concert organised by Blewett, will take place at 18:00 BST on 18 April at the Bethesda Methodist Church in Cheltenham.<\/p>\n
Donations to the Cheltenham and Gloucester Hospitals Charity will be collected at the end of the concert.<\/p>\n
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