Yet another great turn out last Wednesday with lots of great singing. We‘ve now completed Shaftesbury’s Delights and 500 Miles – all that remains is to consolidate and polish. This coming week we will work on these, finish learning / polishing That Lonesome Road, Our Choir and Bogoroditse and make a start on a Ukrainian Easter hymn – words attached. We will also do Simply There as our warm-up once more together with Bamba Lela. Please print the Ukrainian hymn out yourselves if you possibly can. The words of the others, where needed, have all been attached in recent weeks …
… and don’t forget, next week will be having BADGE WEDNESDAY. Please come wearing a name badge and get to know a few more people. (Sticky labels available for those who forget!)
COMING CHOIR EVENTS
Saturday 22 April Celebration of the life of Steven Ridout. Afternoon. Charlton Hall.
Monday 1 May (BANK HOLIDAY) Fundraising day at Shaftesbury Arts Centre. More details soon.
Saturday 10 June Motcombe Fete tbd
Wednesday 21 June Make Music Day 2023. We hope to arrange something extra special. Watch this space.
Saturday 1 July Gold Hill Fair tbd
Sunday 23 July Shaftesbury Fringe 11.15 a.m. Shaftesbury Abbey Gardens
OTHER EVENTS
THIS WEEKEND Sat 25 – Sun 26 March Sculpture exhibition CONGREGATION at The Chapel, Tuckingmill, Tisbury SP3 6JB 12 - 4pm. Karen is improvising 2-3pm both days. Press release attached.
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Saturday 25 March Rolling Harmony at Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon. Stupendous vocal group and well worth the trip. See attached flyer.
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Sunday 26 March Shaftesbury Orchestra. Beethoven and Offenbach. 2.30 p.m. St James Church. ADMISSION FREE. See last week’s flyer.
Saturday 1 April Come & Sing in Fordingbridge, Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise and a piece we know well, Rachmaninov (Bogoroditse) - it’s his 150th birthday! A bargain with tea and cake included. See last week’s flyer.
Sunday 2 April (Palm Sunday) Come with me – a refreshingly different service with quite a number of familiar faces at St John’s, Enmore Green. 6.00 p,.m. See last week’s flyer.
Tues 4 – Sat 15 April Spinning the Moon - Dorchester’s 7th community play. Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester. See earlier flyer. (Tess [alto] and her husband Mark are both involved. Music by ex-Shastonian Tim Laycock.)
Sunday 23 April Fonthill House Open Garden Music Alfresco – (see earlier flyer)
David
25 March 2023
PS Don’t forget the clocks go forward an hour tonight!