Held at St. Peter's Church, Midland Road,
RUSHDEN at 7.30pm, 26th January 2008 - featuring the Alfred Street Junior School Choir.
This event was,
once again, organised by Sarah Bates to support Glennis Hooper's 'Crazy Hats
Appeal'. This charity has now raised almost £500,000 for Breast Cancer care in
Northamptonshire.
If you would like
to find out more about the 'Crazy Hats' please go to our
Links page.
Boobs and Brass were
conducted by honorary 'Boob' Jonathan Mott and the Alfred
Street Junior School Choir were lead by Mrs Lucy
Taylor. Again, our compére
for the evening was local actor Mr Anthony Higgins - if you go to our
Players link you can find out more about him!
We
were lucky to have two soloists for the evening. Mairi
Addy played her accordion with the dancers AND the
Pink Panther managed (again) to get in on the act - much to the enjoyment
of all!
Boobs
& Brass have been 'kitted out' with a complete set of pink
music stands - which were first used at this concert.
The
stands have been donated to the band by Kay Hollingsworth
and Jupiter Music/Korg UK (Milton Keynes).
Programme:
First Half.
Band:
March:
Boobs & Brass - Brian
Saunders.
Mack &
Mabel - Jerry Herman, arr. Keith Wilkinson.
Crimond
- arr. Peter Graham.
Choir:
Believe - Lin Marsh
Disney's Beauty & The Beast - Howard Ashman/Alan Menken.
Band:
3 Jigs
and 1 Reel - arr. Brian
Saunders. Accordion Soloist - Mairi Addy and
the dancers.
Breezin'
Down Broadway - arr Goffs Richards.
Second Half:
Band:
March: Punchinello - William
Rimmer.
The Pink Panther - Henri Mancini,
arr. Stephen Barnett. Soloist: The Pink Panther!
Disney's The Lion King - Elton
John/Tim Rice.
Choir:
Castle On A Cloud (From 'Les
Miserables') - Herbert Krestmer/Claude-Michel Schonberg.
Refuge - Howard Goodall.
Band and Choir:
Fantasia on British Sea Songs -
Henry J. Wood, arr. Denis Wright.
Jerusalem - Parry, Lyrics - William
Blake, arr. Sydney Herbert.
Pomp & Circumstance No. 1 -
Edward Elgar, arr. J. Ord Hume.
And now......
...the photographs...
The Pink Panther salutes
the audience...
...and shakes the M.D's hand!
Some
of the Alfred Street Junior School Choir - suitably attired in 'pink'
- even the solitary boy!, tho' I think it's quite fashionable at the
moment.
Sarah makes the
many 'thank-yous' - while Lucy looks on.
...Now
(thanks to Peter Vine) - Pink
Panther VIDEO!!
Obviously,
Sarah had to thank a great many people - but it was
all, very much, worth it as the event raised a MASSIVE...
