More excellent singing on Wednesday and another great turn out too. 11 tenors! We have a great Fringe show in store for everyone – marvelous. Do make sure you tell your family and friends about it - our Fringe flyer is in attached zip folder once again. Our performance on Sunday is due to start at 11.30. Please get to the Abbey some time before 11.15. Normal dress code – i.e. shades of red above the waist – block colour, no patterns, dark or black below the waist. If you haven’t already done so, it might be worth putting our pad in a separate folder, perhaps even in alphabetical order (see below)!
To remind you, our pieces will be selected from: Banaha; Banana Boat Song; Bela Mama; Five Hundred Miles; Funiculi Funicula; Ghafoor’s Bus; Go Placidly; Hamba Nighale; Heart to Heart; I am a River; In My Life; Jug of Punch; Lifting As we Climb; Lili Marlene; Moma Don’t Allow; Say Say Yes; Simama; This is Home; Viva la Musica; Vive le Compagnie; Wake Up.
CHOIR COMING EVENTS
Sunday 28 July Concert in Abbey Gardens. (Shaftesbury Fringe) 11.15 for 11.30
Wednesday 31 July Supper and Song – in aid of Shaftesbury Westminster Hospital. The Abbey grounds open from 6.00 p.m. for picnics with singing starting at our usual time of 7.30. We will sing until about 8.30 after which we’ll all go home. Come prepared for the weather and bring a groundsheet or deck chair.
The organisers will leave the gazebo from the Fringe up for shade and will serve ices and drink to supplement people’s picnics. The whole occasion will, we hope, be very relaxed. Come as you are (i.e. no dress code), bring your family and friends and be prepared to have a thoroughly good time – all in aid of a very good cause. We will sing pieces from our summer pad together with a very, very simple round that I hope to teach to everyone. There will be no charge for this session and no foodbank collection.
The weather forecast at the moment is cloudy but with a very high lunchtime temperature which bodes well for the evening. However I will send an e-mail to everyone on our mailing list at around 4 o’clock on Wednesday to confirm that the event is taking place as planned or that we are having to revert the Town Hall. If you have friends who don’t have e-mail (or don’t look at it) please keep them in the loop.
OTHER COMING EVENTS
SHAFTESBURY FRINGE - SATURDAY 27 JULY
11.00 – 12.00 noon Hardy Annuals – Thomas Hardy in Words and Music. King Alfred’s Kitchen. See attached flyer
2.00 – 3.00 p.m. Hardy Annuals – Thomas Hardy in Words and Music. St Peter’s Church Hall. See attached flyer
4.00 p.m. Technophobe. Story, poetry and monologue. King Alfred’s Kitchen. See attached flyer.
5.00 – 6.00 p.m. Reel Deal Folk Music Buskers Stage
SHAFTESBURY FRINGE - SUNDAY 28 JULY
12.15 p.m. Summer of Love Palida Choir 12.15 Abbey Gardens (This follows straight on from our own concert at 11.30.) See attached flyer
3.00 – 4.00 p.m. Phoenix Café Orchestra. St James Church. See attached flyer.
6.30 – 7.15 At the Turning of the World Emily Burridge – mellow cello. Bell Street United Church. See attached flyer
Sunday 11 August Ain’t it a Pretty Night in Knoxville. Letitia Stevens (soprano) with Bonnie Donham 3.00 p.m. St Peter’s Church. Tickets: £12. SAC Members & Friends £10. Under 18s free
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
27 July 2024