Dear All
A really good sing last night – and a very encouraging last rehearsal for our performance at the Food Festival this weekend (see full details below). Please do tell everyone you can about this – it would be lovely to sing in front of a vast crowd of friends and supporters. Yuko (soprano) has found this performance of a rather different version of “Leko Hode Nedo”: https://youtu.be/IkPQq9zknRI. Apparently it is nothing at all to do with an obstinate donkey but rather about a girl who dreams of a fairer complexion! A proper translation will, we hope, follow in due course
COMING CHOIR EVENTS
Sunday 12 May Shaftesbury Food Festival. 12.30 Abbey Gardens. Please arrive at 12.00 noon. Normal dress code (ie shades of red above the waist - no patterns! – with dark or black bottoms). Parking is free on Sundays of course, but is likely to be busy. Additional parking in Coppice Street too. We will be singing (in no particular order); Time After Time*, Hold On, Java Jive*, California Dreamin’*, Funiculi Funicula, Isn’t She Lovely*, Leko Hode Nedo, That Lonesome Road, Up Above My Head, Things*, Isa Lei and Follow the Heron. (Those marked * will be with the ukes)
Friday 7 June Concert at St James Church, Shaftesbury. 7.00 (note revised time)
Saturday 15 June Motcombe Village Fete 1.45 – 2.15
Sunday 7 July Shaftesbury Fringe / Gold Hill Fair. 12.30 – 1.30 Park Walk.
Saturday 13 July Shaftesbury Primary School Fete
Saturday 7 September Singing at Castle Hill Garden party
The “pad” from which all the music for our summer events will be taken is made up of those pieces we are singing on 12thMay along with: Call of Wisdom; Long and Winding Road; Alleluia; Morning has Come; Go Placidly; Stille der Nacht; Wake Up; And So It Goes; Eternal Flame.
OTHER EVENTS
Saturday 18 May Afternoon tea (with live music) at Shaftesbury Arts Centre. 2.00 - 5.00.
Sunday 9 June. Fonthill Garden party to raise money for secondary breast cancer. See earlier flyer.
Saturday 15 June Choral Day with Deborah Radford. Port Regis. This is a reminder that the cut-off date is 1st June. They need more tenors and basses anyway but there is still plenty of room for more sopranos and altos. See earlier details.
also
An evening of Mozart, Bach and Henri Dutilleux. St John's Church Tisbury at 7.30 pm. Entry is free with retiring collection in aid of the St John's development fund. See attached flyer.
David