Great singing on Wednesday. Thanks for working hard. Good to make a start on Things at last and first part of And So It Goes sounding lovely.
The choir picnic has changed venue. We will now have it in the Queen Mother's Garden just off Castle Hill (off Bimport).
This coming week as preparation for our choir picnic party on 20th August, we will recap I Paradisi (I attach words for those who asked for them), continue And So It Goes, look at Things as well as recapping Lifting as we Climb + a few others from our picnic long list is time permits (see below). Words where needed have all been attached recently. Please print them out yourselves if you can and maybe a spare copy to pass onto the needy!
Picnic long list: Eternal Flame; Forever Young; Grateful and Loved; Oak of Old; Heart to Heart; Dvorak Anthem; Blue Moon; Stille der Nacht; And so it goes; Haere Mai; Lifting as we climb; My Little Cup; Shenandoah; Simply There; Things; To Walk Along this Shore; Iparadisi.
If you are singing for the Dementia Friendly on Thursday 28th August, we will be having a singalong at the end of next week’s practice .
COMING CHOIR EVENTS
Wednesday 20 August Supper & Song in the Queen Mother's Garden (Choir Picnic Party). More details soon. As with last year, there will be a collection in aid of the Abbey and the Hospital by a voluntary leaving donation.
Thursday 28 August Dementia Friendly Shaftesbury - Melodies Remembered. Afternoon. More details soon.
Saturday 27 September Shaftesbury Carnival. More details later. (We will be taking part in the all-day entertainment at some stage).
Saturday 11 October Afternoon tea at St James. We will share this programme with the Shaftesbury shanty group
Thursday 11 December Shaftesbury Late Night Shopping.
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.
Karen
8 August 2025