He might not be very well known because he's not a frequent poster, but he's been a huge help behind the scenes

....'twas nothing really....oh, shucks... I'm embarrassed now

Just so please everyone did so well and enjoyed the day - and never forget that.... "I will feel a glow, just thinking oooooooooooooooooof you, and the way you look tonight!!!!!!!"

Yay! Someone else to tempt you to get a soprano sax......

Well done once again skylark - thought the weekend was wonderful!

Good luck everyone with the concert.

Will be thinking of you!

hillyb (in sunny Jamaica)
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Have you seen the programme Hilly? (Venue/Timetable page of the concert web site, link from the first post of this thread). Will be thinking of you in the Swing Ensemble and the jazz band, it would have been great if you could have been here. Next year - 31st May!

Hope you enjoy your holiday, speak to you when you get back
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Glad the concert went well. Have noted next years date in my diary. Speak soon.

hillyb

No I'm deaf!!

No photos yet?

Sorry, I was out most of yesterday, lesson tonight, and I've just been writing an extremely long post for a different thread So apologies to people who are waiting for photos or for replies to emails - please bear with me

Here's the photos then - and thanks for taking all the pics St George



Katyjay opened the concert, with sbpiano accompanying on piano




then we had the large string ensemble, conducted by barry-clari







Carl's clarinet solo




the Harboro Ensemble, all the regular players at the Market Harborough playdays - meerkat, skylark, sbhoa, barry-clari, carl, clarissa, katyjay, together with notmusimum's daughter 1. Next playday - July 8th! All-comers welcome - see the East Midlands thread pinned in the General Music forum











Stumac's solo




katyjay and meekat's vocal slot, with sbpiano accompanying and sbhoa page-turning





Tryzard1 and janexxx's violin duet




Recorder consort, led by petrat











skylark's clarinet solo, accompanied by sbhoa (Thanks sbhoa!), with katyjay page-turning.







notmusimum's daughter2, playing oboe




A violin trio of three members who had not played in public before - Goldfinch, nova and phantasmagoriana. It sounded lovely - very well done!






Three concert hijackers from the Old Ladies Traditional Values Association Liddy, Great Aunt May and Addy, performing the Sand Dance.... with sbpiano keeping a safe distance at the piano










TURN !




from the ridiculous to the sublime ..... andante_in_c, performing her flute solo




followed by meerkat's vocal solo




mwl1 making his forum concert debut with katyjay.... and sounding very professional!





the Jazz Band, with katyjay singing and led by barry-clari, with DaisyChain providing piano accompaniment














DaisyChain making her singing debut, with part accompaniment by St George (vocal) and skylark (clarinet), with sbhoa on piano accompaniment. Whoo-hoo petal, you did it! Well done you!





String Quartet, with Tryzard1, janexxx, Tryzard3 and Tryzard4





Carl and Clarissa's clarinet duet




elisabeth_rb and katyjay's viola/violin duet. This was elisabeth_rb's first public performance after only 4 months learning the viola - go girl go!






The Swing Ensemble, playing barry-clari's arrangement of Petite Fleur Many thanks Barry - can we play it again at Mkt Harboro sometime???






Goldfinch doing the unthinkable - performing a solo at her first ever public concert Onwards and upwards, my feathered friend!






Another solo debut at her first forum concert - The Old Lady on flute. You did it girl! All your friends are dead proud of you!






A newbie to the forum and the stage - phantasmagoriana performing a viola duet with willobie. Well done!





barry-clari performing a clarinet solo, accompanied by DaisyChain on piano





St George singing a forumised version of "The Way you Look Tonight", with skylark accompanying on clarinet and DaisyChain on piano





The Grand Finale, conducted by barry-clari











That's it folks!

Lovely pictures!

Wow - great pics!!

Splendid. Thanks to skylark and St George.

I hadn't realised my recorder matched my top so well.

Wow, fantastic pics! I can't believe I don't recognise so many people!

Great stuff skylark. Now I know what I missed. Deserves a website of its own!
It would be great if you have time to label/identify everyone.

Brilliant pics, but far to many of those old ducks! They spoil the rest of the album.

I can't see them Perhaps they'll appear when I log in at home...

Some brilliant picturtes there!!!

Well done!

Great photo's! Really show everyone having a good time.

The forums team here at AB are loving the photos too! Thanks for putting them up - it really gives everyone a good idea of the atmosphere of the day. Looks like you all had a lot of fun.

A huge thanks to Skylark for all the hard work that she put into organising the day.

Although lots of friendships were doubtless made or reinforced on the day, could the moderation team ask that you continue referring to people by their forums names when you post on here please - and not by their real names?

We're keen to protect the privacy of all our forums members. We know that several teachers and examiners use these forums, many of whom value the anonymity that a forums profile brings!

Hope everyone understands!

Many thanks

Christine

Glad the mods like the pics too!



Next year's date for your diary - 31st May!



Yes I will do, but I thought I'd leave it for a day or two and then if anyone doesn't want their picture there, or doesn't want me to put their forum name in to identify them, it will give people a chance to contact me




PS Will try and catch up with emails tonight, after my singing lesson

Yes, really nice to see the photos of a great day

Great Photos. Except me, I don't like photos of myself.
Bev.

Hello!!

Have just got home after spending a lovely week in Leeds! Thanks to Skylark for a great day!!! Also special mentions to The Old lady..I'm so pleased your solo went well; to St George for the lovely singing (!!) and for abandoning me halfway through "Moon River". I think it will help with my confidence in the singing exam; "sorry" to Barry for fluffing my piano part on your solo ; thanks to Katyjay for your encouraging comments and thanks to mwl1 for your wonderful organ playing in the church on Sunday.

I have had a good time throughout the week, and it was good to meet new faces as well as catching up with the old..good to see you again Petrat!!!

And great photos too...though I have to echo what Bev says!! The ones of me are...well..
XXXXX

Lovely pictures! so pleased you all had such a good time.

Looks fantastic

Only, who are those Old Ladies? And who let them in? And...what are they doing?

We're doing what we do best lovey!! Entertaining our adoring public!!!!?? And that just happens to be the Sand Dance what we are doing!!

I trust that you meant "old and wise" Appleblod,Charlies Aunt, Liddy, Jill Daisy Chain!
I like my age, it suits me!

I've now identified all the soloists and small groups. I haven't identified everybody in the large ensembles but I think it will be obvious who's who from the other captions


edit: I love looking at the pictures, I wish we could do it all over again this weekend

Thanks for doing the captions.

Two little things: Goldfinch is sideways, and Elisabeth_rb is playing a viola not a violin.

Everybody's upright now, and hopefully everybody has got the right instruments

Hello
It looks like you all had a great time! The photos look fantastic, and well done skylark!
Pianoboe x

Good captions skylark!

Thanks Pianoboe, hope you'll be able to come some time

Fantastic pictures. Glad everyone had a great time.

hillyb

Great photos! Sounds like it was a fun concert!

As a matter of interest, were either Judith or Doreen the penguin mentioned in the OLTVA performance?

Car Expert

Afraid not Car Expert.
May.

I'm sure I saw one of them hiding in your flowery hat....

You mean my birdies Hello Barri Clari Larry and what ever else I can think of
bev.

Eyesight's never been my strong point....

Fab photos. I've been away so today was the first time I've played since Leeds so it was great to have a reminder of what a super day it was.

Goldfinch

I understand the reasoning here, but isn't a photo of the person kind of a loss of anonymity??

Without meaning to spoil any fun, should this thread be unpinned? The amount of pinned threads in this forum is quite ridiculous, perhaps another forum is in order for announcements and concert information?

Yes I agree, there's no need for it to stay pinned - I'll ask the mods if they'll remove it



Edit: confirm message sent 9/7/07, 10.13am

Very good idea!

I suspect this will be an academic discussion, but for the sake of balance, I'll put forward an opposite argument

For months I didn't ask for the Leeds thread to be pinned at all. In fact I didn't ask for it to be pinned until after the closing date for applications. This was because when I first joined the forums, it was the first forum I'd ever seen let alone joined, and I'd got no idea what it meant for a thread to be pinned. And I thought that the idea of concerts couldn't possibly be relevant to newbies or beginner instrumentalists anyway, so I never looked at them for a long time. I think if the events were in a different forum entirely, they would be yet a further step removed from people who think they're too new or too inexperienced for them to be relevant. There's the danger that the whole forum would never be visited by any other than people who are already regular event-goers. I agree that the events are now "in your face", but that wasn't the case when I first joined, and in my view it's a good thing that newbies cannot miss the events as they are currently displayed

That's fair enough skylark, but I think 5 "normal" threads on the front page is too few, and certain ones can easily be missed if they are not replied to within reasonable time. There are some users who insist on replying to nearly every post and therefore search for them, but others do not. I think it would be a shame for threads to go back a few pages just because of 10million concert pinned threads. I am aware that is a slight exaggeration but you get the gist.

Is it not possible to have a sub-forum of a main forum, so that all the concert/event threads are collected under GMF in a sub-forum. Would be mighty tidy!

Agree with noodle (and Scaramouche). I (as you have probably deduced!) am a big fan of the forum events, but the trouble with ten or so pinned threads is that the 'non-event' threads in GMF sink to the bottom of the page and may not then get the responses they deserve.

I think it's now getting to the stage that an event 'sub-forum' may be a good move.

Yes it is a bit confusing - I almost missed the Staylebridge thread until Katyjay prodded me into action.

Oops, I'm coming to this thread very, very late...but just wanted to say thanks to everyone involved, especially the organisers, it was a fun day and a really nice venue! Great photos too.

*thinks about whether to be brave and attempt a solo next year*

i keep seeing this thread and thinking it was such a long time ago. Even though it wasn't!!