Thanks Skylark for the fun weekend and all of the great organisation. It was lovely to meet old friends again and the new ones too. Glad that you liked Addy and Liddy!!!!!!!!!!!! It is as well that someone does. Thanks for being such good sports with the choir and the kazoo orchestra too. I thought that Carl's duck playing and Sboa's solo in the choir added greatly to the overall effects. The recorder group item went well also, and how good to see some more recorder blowers coming out of hiding.
I enjoyed the meal afterwards. You were all very good company. We should go there again if they'll let us in next time.

Maybe next time I should figure out how to play my sopranino recorder I'm glad I remembered to change to descant on my application form. I had written treble by mistake and I can't play it (and I can't play the bottom note because my hands are too small....)

This seems the best place to post this as most of the Leeds Forumites will be reading it and looking for pictures. I left my mobile phone in the sudio after the Leeds concert. It is an aged Nokia silver one that says "Bog off, this one's mine! as its welcome message. If anyone found it please could they return it to me or to Skylark. I have lots of numbers in it that I don't want to lose. Thank you.

I expect you've already tried this, but if there's anyone there at the college have you tried ringing your phone to see if they can hear it?

Hope it turns up.

The college is only open in the afternoons and evenings but I've sent them an email asking them to look for it and to let me know. Hopefully it will be there ....

Did the Pink Mobile that Barry called me about get reunited with it's owner?

Fingers crossed yours turns up Petrat.

Yes it was Daisy's - I gave her it back at the dinner

Have either of your two girls lost a beaded bracelet notmusimum?

That's who they said it belonged to, perhaps they shoule be PI's in their spare time

Not that I know of, they weren't wearing anything, I suppose it could have been stored in one of the bags. I'll ask them about it.

Unfortunately I switched it off before the Add/Lidd thing. It is possible that I even folded it inside of the grand piano on the stage as I was the one who closed that up at the end of the day.

The college has got it! Will email you Petrat

I'm just preparing to load pictures but it's taking some time... I'm doing the labelling whilst they're loading on to Photobucket so please bear with me...

We want pics! We want pics! We want pics! Do be quiet Addy!

Glad the weekend was a success!

Can't take her anywhere

Pics are now all loaded into Photobucket, captions at the ready, will load pics on to the thread tonight



Thanks Flossy, hope to meet you at an event some time

Well, you can but you won't be invited back again.

Hello everyone!

Just got home after a wonderful five days in Yorkshire! I had a great time on Saturday too. Well done to everybody for taking part.

Special thanks to:
oldnotes for helping out with two old ladies
St George for his great singing!! Have lessons boy, as petrat would say
Addy for keeping Lidd company..shame you's forgot ya words at the end of the song innit? Never mind eh gel. Me dancin' knocked 'em dead ay?
Matthew for putting up with me during our duet...
And of course to skylark for putting on another great and successful event!

It was lovely to meet new faces too. Amber, ChrisH, Panthera..and to see the old familiar faces as well

Hi folks, here's most of the pics then, I'm waiting for agreement from the adult learners on some of them, and they'll be loaded later...


Yorkshire College ensemble
(to follow)

Stumac


Willobie, accompanied by oldnotes


Emsoboe and Babybird2


Fun Choir, performing On Ilkla Moor bah't 'at : mwl1, Carl, Barry-clari, Stumac, Sbhoa, Willobie, Hillyb, Amber, Daisychain



Skylark, accompanied by mwl1


Drumchick, Barry-clari, Emsoboe


Amber and St George, performing Singing in the Rain, accompanied by sbhoa, with audience participation for second refrain






String Quartet: Willobie, mwl1, plus two adult learners


Daisychain


Recorder ensemble:
seated: sbhoa, Hillyb, Emsoboe, Amber, Carl
standing: ChrisH's son, mwl1, Babybird2, Drumchick




ChrisH


Babybird2, skylark


Hillyb


Addy and Liddy, performing with oldgoat, oldnose, oldnotes! Thanks for being such a good sport oldnotes, you were great, all three of you!






Sax ensemble: ChrisH's son, Barry-clari, Hillyb, Emsoboe




DaisyChain, St George and Skylark performing "Getting to Know You", with mwl1 accompanying, and with audience participation for the second refrain And I sang on stage!!!





Flute ensemble: Barry-clari, Emsoboe, Carl, visitor, Phantasmagoriana, Babybird2


Guitar and Violin duet, two adult learners


Amber, accompanied by Panthera, page turner sbhoa



Piano duet, DaisyChain and mwl1



Emsoboe, with oldnotes accompanying



Kazoo band, directed by Petrat
seated: Drumchick, visitor, Carl, mwl1, Phantasmagoriana, Barry-clari, Emsoboe
standing: ChrisH, Amber, Skylark, St George, Daisychain, Oldnotes
Britain's Got Talent 2009 - here we come!



ChrisH's son


Swing band
Barry-clari, Carl, sbhoa, Drumchick, Phantasmagoriana, ChrisH's son, Emsoboe



Oldnotes


Amber and Barry-clari, accompanied by Panthera



Adult learner, accompanied by sbhoa


Panthera




That's it folks! Hope you like them!

Yay, photos! Thanks, Skylark

Great photos

There was something really interesting on the handrail!!

Great photos!!!

Lovely pics!!

Was it a snail??

My dress makes me look fat, haha.

Thanks for the photos

Lovely lovely photos. I wish so much that I'd been there I wanna be an old lady with Addy and Liddy
By the way, Babybird............you don't look fat, no way.
Bev.


I say old chaps, spiffing pictures what Bet you missed the old gel.
Great Aunt May.

Which old gel would that be?

The old May gel.

Is it me, or does the power of the OLTVA performance shine through in the photographs?

Never heard of her...

Absolutely Barry!!!!

Did you see my halo too?

Yeah.

That thing that had slipped slightly, I'm assuming

I thought it cut through the grime to create a shine even better than Double Strength Cillit Bang can achieve.

Great work OLTVA team!

Never...


Thank you...I take it Humber Bridge will be joining us at the next event???

Thanks for a great day everyone!... I had such a good time.

I was reduced to tears on more than one occasion...thanks ladies of the OLTVA!

If you hanker for yet more photos... I've put the best of mine on the college web site.
(Not sure if you're allowed to link to sites from here... but, hay hoe!!!... just call me fearless St George!)

http://www.yorkshire-music-lessons.co.uk/leeds08/

I'm sure someone will tell me off if I'm allowed to do something!

Nice pics, Fearless George!

Nice comments, Fearless George.

Well done St. George

I'm not sure she'd be allowed a passport out of Pimlico ever again, but in her absence I'm pretty sure she'll send Amber!



Luffley pics St. George!

Bery nice Photos!! Just wish I'd brought my camera now

What wonderful pictures, well done to you all...St George seemed to be having the time of his life, me thinks a natural stage performer...all the instrumentalists look very comfortable and confident, congrats to all the organisers and especially the accompanists ...my personal favourite picture is of.....

The Kazzo Band with Skylark shaking her Maraccas oooh err missus...

Well done one and all...a great day...

Andrew

Go St George!



There's no answer to that!

Is it me, or does Liddy look menacing with that umbrella?

Really nice pictures!

Menacing?? Moi?? 'Course I am darlin'..just be grateful it weren't me duck ended one!

Great pictures - both sets! Today's lesson, try to LOOK as if I'm enjoying playing - 'cos I really was. Then again, with Liddy's umbrella and Addy's welsh dragon within reach, maybe I was a little wary. Thanks again to all the new friends I made, can't wait for the next concert.

And thanks to Mrs oldnotes for helping me out in the choir!

W

It was great to meet you and Mrs Oldnotes too, and I'm glad you enjoyed it

The next concert I'm organising in Leeds will be on Saturday 3 January 2009, same venue - Yorkshire College of Music & Drama. It's early days yet, but I'm envisaging that it will be smaller than the summer concert, and this will enable soloists to play slightly longer slots, or two shorter ones. I'm planning for there to be some large ensembles, but not as many as in the summer concert. One of the already confirmed ensemble directors is one of the teachers at the college, who's heard me talk about forum events and seems keen to get involved

The January concert will be held under the banner of "Players for Pleasure", which is inspired by the motto of the Yorkshire College of Music & Drama - "for the love of learning and pleasure of playing". Players for Pleasure is an "umbrella" title to describe what is a fairly loose group of learner musicians, mainly but not solely based in Yorkshire, who are looking for opportunities to play at events like concerts, stately homes, retirement homes, bandstands, busking etc.

The first Players for Pleasure event, however, is not in Yorkshire but in Somerset - I've arranged for a group of us to play at a stately home there. We can play all day if we want, and it will be a good opportunity for advanced players to perform longer pieces. Beginners are also welcome, and teachers are welcome to offer the performing opportunity to their students. It will take place in the autumn of this year, on a date to suit the majority. I'm not going to promote it much on this forum as it's not a forum event, but if anyone would like more details, please feel free to contact me

Leeds Jan. 3rd., sounds good, it's now in my diary.

See you there!! Char soon Oldnotes.

Hope to be there..weather permitting!

I should be there. Who knows, I might even have Grade 4 by then