THE sell-out audience at tomorrow night’s John Barry tribute concert will see the late composer’s sister, June, re-visiting their two childhood homes in York.

A short film, called June’s Homecoming, will be screened at York Barbican before bands and orchestras take to the stage.

June Lloyd-Jones is shown going back to the property in Hull Road where they were born and lived in their earlier years, and then the larger property in Fulford – now the Pavilion Hotel – where they moved when John was in his teens.

At Hull Road, she tells how John preferred playing outdoors to playing the piano, and one day brought six chickens home and was chastised by his father, only to do the same thing again a week later.

At The Pavilion, she visits the bedrooms for the first time since she was young and spots John’s wardrobe, still positioned in what was his bedroom. She also shows where he would sit at the piano to practise.

The concert, which celebrates the life and music of the Oscar-winning composer, looks set to raise about £10,000 for the Lord Mayor’s charities, York Against Cancer and York and District Mind.

People are attending the event from as far away as Canada and Sweden. More than 200 performers will take part, all of whom have a connection with York,. including the York Guildhall Orchestra, York Railway Institute Band, and The Steve Cassidy Band.

Mr Barry, who died of a heart attack in January, aged 77, was one of York’s most successful sons and was made an Honorary Freeman of the city in 2002.

The Barbican is just a short distance from the site of the former Rialto where John started his career.