Hi everyone ! just one week to go until the first Blackburn forum concert

The concert will start at approximately 130pm.

Arrivals are welcome from 10am for rehearsals with your accompanist and practice time.

It would be lovely if we could all have lunch together at approximately 12:00 and get to know each other Please bring a packed lunch as there is nowhere within walking distance to go to buy lunch, although there is an Asda a short drive away.

If anyone would like picking up from the train station please let myself or Sally know your expected arrival time and we will sort that out for you.

We would like to thank everyone for supporting of our first ever forum event , we hope it will be a thoroughly enjoyable day for all

Val & Sally (yamaha & Sbpiano )

Hoping for a really great day. There should be some fabulous performances and hopefully all will enjoy the day. See you next sunday !!

Excited and rather scared about this now! My train doesn't arrive until about 12noon so it will probably be 12:15ish by the time I find the venue.

See you all on Sunday

Really very pleased you are coming looking forward to hearing you play!!

Darn it , as It happens Im home alone all weekend , and could easily have come. Wouldnt have known until yesterday.
Have a great time all.

Why not come along to watch ?

OK thanks I will see if can put in an appearance.

Go on, you know you want to!! You'll be very welcome

I dont normally finish organ grinding at church until 12.15, and its a good hours run, so may be a bit tight to make it by 1.30!

That's ok, no problem if you're a bit late

No, just make a Grand Dramatic Entrance and all will be well

Have now discovered I can get an earlier train (really should read small print on tickets properly!) so all being well should be in Blackburn about 10:30

That's good to hear.

OK I will come and listen, it will be worth it to hear KatyJay sing again, but Im sure I will enjoy others as well, particulary Tom.

Have a fantastic time tomorrow, everyone.

Looking forward to meeting you.

Enjoy yourselves everyone : look forward to seeing the event reports

Getting very excited now !!

Hope it goes well everyone. Enjoy yourselves.

Looking forward to this event it will be my 1st attempt at playing infront of an audience, i need something like this to spur me on.
Anyhows i shall see you all around 11am, working til 1am so no beauty sleep for me

Am I first online?
Had a great day.
Some awesome piano playing!

Sorry you didn't make it trimmy, hope you are well.

Think you definitely first to report back in Sbhoa.
Feel really pleased with how everything went today, Thanks to everyone for their support, it was lovely to see you all.
Trimmy had PM'd me to say he ended up working until 6 this morning and hadn't slept... only I didn't check my messages until just now, so all's well, just at missing the event.

Thank you everyone for coming and supporting our event, it was a wonderful day Sorry you couldn't make it trimmy but glad you are ok

It was a delight to join the event at the last moment, and thanks to SBPiano, Yamaha , and others who organised it . It was quite relaxing to attend just as a listener, and to meet some old friends like Mad Tom , KatyJay and Robodoc, and well as meeting the acquaintence of a few more forumites. Of course the highlights for me were the performances of Paul G and Chaminade, I can never hope to get to that standard !
Maybe I can get to a future Blackburn event to perform, it was only just over an hours drive for me.

Was good to meet you.
Will be good to hear you play some time.

It was lovely to meet you F# Start preparing for your performance now then, we hope to have another event this year

Glad you all had a lovely time.

Had a lovely day yesterday, many thanks to sbpiano and yamaha for organising the event, and thank you chaminade for playing the accompaniment for me, was nice to work with you.

Well done to all the performers, it was a great concert.

Hello,

I really enjoyed the Lefevre.

Stay well,

Pierre

Many thanks to my dear friends, Sal and Val for organising the magnificent day we were all treated to.

It was wonderful to see so many of you again, and I do hope we can organise another one again, in the near future.

Stay well my friends,

Pierre

It was magnificent indeed wasn't it Roll on the next one

I was gutted to miss this event but alas the work must come 1st, (without the work there are no pleasures) I'm pleased the event went well i shudder to imagine how much planning goes into these events, but just picking up on your last sentence, hope you do arrange another event and sooner rather than later

I WILL BE THERE

Excellent news We are looking at sometime in November hopefully Watch this space ....

I am just briefly breaking my self-imposed silence to thank:

1. Sally and Val for such a well organized event
2. Those that played for some very enjoyable performances
3. The other participants, their friends and family, for their kind and complimentary feedback on my performance

not forgetting ...

4. Robodoc for providing me with somewhere to stay, sustenance and a nice piano on which to practice

To anyone that missed out this time, I can tell you that the place is easy to find, there is plenty of parking nearby, the venue is an attractive old house (now a music school) and the Kawai grand piano used for the performances is simply gorgeous to play.