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Tomorrow’s Concert

Lins Emails
Good morning,

As promised, here are the details for tomorrow’s concert at the Hedge End Methodist Church.
The concert is due to start at 7.30pm and will take place in the main church.  We will be sat on the dais at the front of the church and we will be in three rows.  Due to the numbers of us that are coming, I will have to slightly re-arrange the seating plan, but there will be your name on the chair when you get there.
You will need to get there by 7.00pm, or earlier if you want to park at the church.
I have enclosed a copy of the programme so you will know what songs we are singing and their order.  For the carols, we will be singing verses 1, 2 , 3 & 6 for Once In Royal David’s City, all three verses of Away in a Manger, verses 1, 2 & 6 for O come All Ye Faithful, and all three verses of Hark! the Herald Angels Sing.
The ladies will wear their Gold tops and the men will wear Black Shirts and their Gold Bowties. 
As you will see from the programme, there is an interval where refreshments will be served.
Look forward to seeing you tomorrow night, and enjoy yourselves.  From Chris’s comments last night, we do sound good, just remember to smile.
Regards
Eric

pdf icon Xmas-22-Methodist-Programme.pdf

This Week’s Newsletter

Lins Emails
Good evening to you all,

Our rehearsal this week will be the same as last in that we will be going through the programme for our concerts.
The order is as follows:-
1. Sing We Now of Christmas
2. Little Drummer Boy
3. SINGALONG – Once in Royal David’s City
4. SOLO 1 – Amelia (violín) for the Afternoon; Solo 1 for the evening
5. Carol of the Bells
6. This Christmas
7. SINGALONG – Away in a Manger
9. SMALL GROUP – Christmas Island
10. SOLO 2
11. Follow the Star
12. Tidings of Comfort
INTERVAL
13. Rudolph the Red Nose (with antlers)
14. Do You Hear 
15. Still, Still, Still
16. SOLO 3
17. SINGALONG – O Come All Ye Faithful
18. Jingle Bell Rock
19. Last Christmas 
20. SOLO 4
21. SMALL GROUP – White Winter Hymnal
22. Grown-Up Christmas List
23. SINGALONG – Hark the Herald
RAFFLE RESULTS

24. The Most Wonderful Time (with hats)

For those of you who wish to do a solo, we will be doing those at the end of the rehearsal, at 9.30, so can you make sure you bring your music along with you.
You will notice that Rudolph the Red Nose has “with antlers”, so if possible, can you all obtain a set of antlers.  I have found some in Pound Stretchers in Bitterne for £1.50 each.
We are still looking for raffle prizes for our concerts on the 10th December.
I enclose a copy of the poster for the RVCP Carol Concert on the 17th December, at Netley. If any of you want tickets, you can obtain them from Lin by emailing her, and then give her the money for them.
Well, that’s all for now, so I hope I will see you tomorrow night.
Bye for now.
Eric

This Week’s Email

Lins Emails
Good morning to you all,

Here is the email from Lillian regarding tonight’s rehearsal:-
Apologies for the late weekly email. 

This week, I’d like the choir to have their songs in programme order, hopefully this order will be the final one; but I’m sure we can still make some changes:

1. Sing We Now of Christmas
2. Little Drummer Boy
3. SINGALONG – Once in Royal David’s City
4. SOLO 1 – Amelia (violín) for the Afternoon; Solo 1 for the evening
5. Carol of the Bells
6. This Christmas
7. SINGALONG – Away in a Manger
9. SMALL GROUP – Christmas Island
10. SOLO 2
11. Follow the Star
12. Tidings of Comfort
INTERVAL
13. Rudolph the Red Nose (with antlers)
14. Do You Hear 
15. Still, Still, Still
16. SOLO 3
17. SINGALONG – O Come All Ye Faithful
18. Jingle Bell Rock
19. Last Christmas 
20. SOLO 4
21. SMALL GROUP – White Winter Hymnal
22. Grown-Up Christmas List
23. SINGALONG – Hark the Herald
RAFFLE RESULTS

24. The Most Wonderful Time (with hats)


We will have Maureen’s Steve with us to try out the snare part for Little Drummer Boy. He might come early to set up his electric drum kit. We are also doing voice tests in the break. The plan is also to run through the White Winter Hymnal at 9:30pm, finishing no later than 9:50pm. Next week, I will be hearing solos and may need to listen to them starting at 9:30pm.

Looking forward to it!
Lillian
We need some raffle prizes for our own concerts on the 10th, so if you have anything you can give, please bring it along in the next couple of weeks.
Also, if you have signed up for the various concerts that we are doing, or if you haven’t been to rehearsals lately, can you let either Eunice or me know if you are available, especially for the concert on the 26th at the Hedge End Methodist Church, and for our own concerts, as we need to sort the seating plan out for these.
We are also looking for someone to act as compare for both the 26th and the 10th, and if you are happy to take on a small part of this, please let me know.  We are quite happy to have two or three people do it so it spreads the load.
I know some of you have been asking about the recordings of the rehearsals that we used to put onto the website, but Emmie is having problems downloading the files while she is on board her ship at the moment, and we are trying to find another way to do it.
Well, that’s all for now, so I will see you tonight.
Regards
Eric

This Week’s Rehearsal

Lins Emails
Good evening to you all,
Here is a copy of an email from Lillian regarding this week’s rehearsal.
Regards
Eric
This week we will be adding Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer to our concert, to replace Wexford Carol. The music will be given out on Thursday evening.
I’d like to rehearse White Winter Hymnal (small group) again this week, staying after until 9:50pm. Please do plan for it if you would like to join! We would love to have another bass, if possible.
Here is the plan for Thursday:
IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSE REINDEER
CAROL OF THE BELLS
DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR
THIS CHRISTMAS
TIDINGS OF COMFORT
FOLLOW THE STAR
STILL, STILL, STILL
LAST CHRISTMAS
WHITE WINTER HYMNAL
Thank you all for your hard work!
Kindest regards,
Lillian

Christmas Concert

Lins Emails
Good morning to you all,

I knew that there was something that I had forgotten to tell you yesterday, it was about our Christmas Concerts on the 10th December.
As you are already aware, the times of the concerts will be 2.30pm and 7.00pm, but what we had not told you is that we have received a sponsor for the event this year.  The person concerned wanted to give something back to the community and approached us to see if we would put on our concert for free and they would pay our overheads.  We explained that we relied on the profits from our concerts to pay for new music and costumes, and it was agreed that we would make a small charge for adults and let children under 16 in for free.
A Family Ticket costs £5.00 and includes for 2 Adults and 2 Children, and they have been on sale for the past two weeks, and the Adult Ticket will cost £2.50, and they go on general sale on the 1st November, but the Family Ticket will have priority over the Adult Tickets as we want to encourage as many families as possible to come and see us.  Children will not be allowed in without an adult in attendance.
Father Christmas will be in attendance for the afternoon show and there will be presents for all the children who attend this performance.  There will also be refreshments during the interval.
I have included a copy of the poster which you can share far and wide.
If you have any queries, you can speak to either Sharon or Sarah tonight as I will not be there as my drama group is putting on a play/musical this week at Woolston Methodist Church.
See you all next week.
Regards
Eric

This Week’s Rehearsal

Lins Emails
Hi there,
Here is a message from Lillian regarding the rehearsal for tomorrow night.
This week we are going to rehearse the following:-
This Christmas
Wexford Carol
Grown-Up Christmas List
Little Drummer
Still, Still, Still
Follow the Star
Last Christmas
Tidings of Comfort
Sing We Now
Carol of the Bells
White Winter Hymnal – small group
The idea is to stay later for the small group to rehearsal until about 9:50pm.
Thanks and looking forward to tomorrow!
Lillian
We are also looking for solos and duets for the concert, so if you would like to take a slot, please let either Sarah or myself know.
It was decided at the recent Committee Meeting that the ladies will wear the Gold Tops for all the concerts that we are doing around Christmas, with black trousers and possibly the black jackets if it is cold.  The men will wear black shirts and trousers, with the Gold bowties.
With all the concerts that we have coming up over the Christmas period, we will be putting sheets out so that you can sign-up for whichever concerts you are available for, and they will be put out this week so that we can start to get an idea of how many we will have for each. The concerts are as follows:-
26th November – Hedge End Methodist Church – 7.30pm
1st December – Hedge End Macular Society, Hedge End URC – 2.30pm
10th December – Our Christmas Concert – 2.30pm and 7.00pm
13th December – Halo Club, KCC Hedge End – 1.30pm
16th December – RAF Association, RAF Hamble – 2.00pm
17th December – RVCP Carol Service – 7.00pm
21st December – Fareham Towns Womens Guild – 2.15pm
21st December – Boorley Green Carol Singing – 6.00pm
We will also be looking for raffle prizes for our own concerts on the 10th December.
Well, that’s all for now.
See you soon.
Eric

This week’s rehearsal

Lins Emails
Hi there everyone,

Here is a message from Lillian regarding this week’s rehearsal:-

Here is the plan for our rehearsal back together!

Do You Hear What I Hear
Sing We Now of Christmas
This Christmas
Away in a Mange
Tidings of Comfort
Carol of the Bells
Last Christmas
Jingle Bell Rock
Grown-Up Christmas
Little Drummer Boy
Still, Still
Follow the Star

I don’t think we will get to everything, but we can try!

Kindest regards,
Lillian

We are also looking for a small group to sing White Winter Hymnal at our Christmas Concert, so if you are interested, can you let me know by either email, or see me at the rehearsal this week.

Just a reminder for those of you that are intending to sing with the Local Vocals on Wednesday, you do not need to have a negative LFT before you turn up.

Well, that’s all for now, so I will see you on Thursday (or Wednesday if you are with the Local Vocals).

Bye for now.

Eric

Tonight’s Rehearsal

Lins Emails
Morning All,

Here is a message from Lillian regarding tonight’s rehearsal.
Regards
Eric
Here’s the plan for this Thursday. We’re having sectionals again with the same split.
Follow the Star
Tidings of Comfort
Away in the Manger
Carol of the Bells
This Christmas
Last Christmas
Grown Up Christmas List
Most Wonderful Time
Do You Hear
Sing We Now
See you all this Thursday!
Lillian

This Weeks News

Lins Emails
Good afternoon,


We had a very successful Beetle Drive/Quiz evening, where Ellie and Emmy came out top of the class, and poor old Maureen came last, and overall it was enjoyed by all those who came, and we look forward to the next Social Evening, with something different again.

I have already told you what we will be singing tonight, so I will not repeat myself with that information again.

We are getting request for Christmas Concerts from some of our regular groups, and we have been contacted by the RAF Association to go and sing at the Christmas gathering on Friday, 16th December, in the afternoon. They used to hold meeting at the Hamble Social club, but this year they are holding it at the RAF Yacht Club in Hamble. Before we commit to this event, I would like to see a show of hands this evening of those who would be able to attend, to make sure we have enough singers to make a decent noise, so can you give it some thought ready for tonight.

Also, I need to remind you that the Local Vocals are singing at Snowdrop Place, Woodhouse Lane, Hedge End, on the afternoon of the 19th October at 2.00pm, and we will be singing for about three quarters of an hour. You will need to show that you have a negative LFT before you can go in to the premises, especially as it seems that Covid is on the rise again.

Well, that’s all for now, see I will se you tonight.

Regards

Eric

Thursday’s Rehearsal

Lins Emails
Good morning,
Here is an email from Lillian regarding the songs that we will be rehearsing on Thursday.
Regards
Eric
The plan this week is to do more sectionals. We will do the same divide with Chris taking the men and Lillian with the women.
We’ll start together for warm ups, then split.
The order:
Sing we Now of Christmas
Last Christmas
Do you Hear what I Hear
Jingle Bell Rock
This Christmas
Grown up Christmas List
Carol of the Bells
Follow the Star
Tidings of Comfort and Joy
See you this Thursday!
Lillian