20 APRIL 2024

Great turn out last Wednesday and some great singing too. We made an excellent start on Funiculi Funicula and Moma Don’t Allow, while In My Life just needs a bit of polish.  This coming week we should be able to complete Java Jive, Moma and Banana Boat Song + continue Funiculi Funicula - all of which will form part of our summer “pad”.  We will also do Bela Mama and Vive la Compagnie as our warm-ups along with Ghaafoor’s Bus and Go Placidly.  Something for everyone as ever I hope.  Words, where needed, have all been attached in recent weeks. 

CHOIR COMING EVENTS

Sunday 5 May  Music for the Food “Feastival”  11.00 for 11.15

Sunday 28 July  Concert in Abbey Gardens. (Shaftesbury Fringe)  11.15 for 11.30

Wednesday 31 July  Supper and Song – in aid of Shaftesbury Hospital – Abbey.  6.30 (TBD)

OTHER COMING EVENTS

TODAY  Saturday 20 April   Iuventus String Quartet with Haydn “Sunrise” Quartet, Shostakovich String Quartet no. 8 opus 110 and Schubert “Death & The Maiden”, 6pm, Port Regis.   (The first of three concerts to mark the relaunch of the Shaftesbury Chamber Music Series.)   Future concerts on Saturday 15th June Saturday 21st September.  Tickets from: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-dvoazqo 

also

'O Flowr'y May'. Tim Laycock & Alastair Braidwood present an evening of words and folk music celebrating Spring  Shaftesbury Abbey  See attached flyer.

Sunday 21 April  All Trees are Clocks.  Karen and friends.  Dorchester.  See last week’s flyer

also

Gildas Quartet 3pm in St Peter’s, as one of the Concerts in the West series

Saturday 27 April  Cello Recital – St Mary’s Church Compton Abbas.  6.00 p.m.  See last week’s flyer

Saturday 4 May Orlando Singers   See attached flyer.

Friday 10 May  Bird Tunes.  Sandford Orcas.  See earlier flyer.

Thursday 16 May Fish and Chips quiz night in aid of the hospital Friends.  7.30  British Legion Hall, Coppice Street.    Have a word if you are interested in forming or being part of a team.

PAYMENT BY BACS

If any choir members would prefer to pay their subs online, our bank details are:

Shaftesbury Community Choir

Account no. 23158960    Sort code: 30-65-21

Payments can be made for individual sessions or block payments of several weeks but payments should be made before the session and please indicate the date of session/s paid for.

David

20 April 2024