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Hi Good People


How are we all doing on week +7?  Whats happened to the rain I was really hoping that we would get a great big downpour and it would water the garden fill up the water butts (we emptied them and cleaned them out) (I say we, of course it was Chris who did that)  and it would fill up the fish pond.  I think I counted six drops.💧💧💧💧💧💧. Had a few more drops since I started the email but not enough to fill a fish bowl let alone my pond..

We have one birthday. It is next Tuesday.  Maureen Pay one of our Altos and also one of our newest Committee Members.  Maureen joined the choir in June 2017.  The first photograph is of Maureen singing outside Brambridge Garden Centre and the other is of the “fun games night” we had in May 2019.  

Unfortunately this is another thing that the choir has not been able to have any social events.  Hopefully something we can do someday in the not too distant future,  Let us know what you would like to have first – skittles, quiz/beetle drive, quiz night, fun games night, donkey derby, bingo?  Or perhaps you have some more ideas?



Singing for Charity outside Brambridge Garden Centre.


I wonder who won the game of Beetle Drive at the games night? 🪲 Have a lovely Birthday Maureen.

Still no positive information about the rules for returning to choir, we are hoping that there may be at least some guidance before the  17th May on the next bit of the roadmap. We are trying to keep up to date and will let you know as soon as we know anything,

THIS WEEKS REHEARSAL

Hello all,

Tomorrow, I’d like to keep the same format as last time. This time, Lillian will start with the ladies, and Chris with the men and we will swap in the middle like last time. I think for the sake of recording, if we could put the ladies in the breakout room, that would be great!

Lillian will be rehearsing:
Everything’s Coming Up Roses – https://youtu.be/Rx4KSQnS9cQ
Memories
You’ll Never Walk Alone – https://youtu.be/zuDvSS8yLqk
Can-Can – https://youtu.be/aa7uRilM6JI

Chris will be rehearsing:
Chattanooga Choo Choo – https://youtu.be/dXKoY__lOt0
When the Saints – https://youtu.be/OX5FK0qRVto
All Things Bright and Beautiful – https://youtu.be/qY9G00WWUVI
Sing Sing Sing – https://youtu.be/OA6oE0RfTlg

See you tomorrow,
Lillian





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Hi Everyone


Spring has Sprung 🌷🐑 🌼🌸, must get down to some spring cleaning, 🧹🧽 🧼  🧹maybe not!!

We have one birthday this week, in fact we have two as it is Richard Close tomorrow on the 22nd although I did tell you about it last week.  We did sing to you last week but you disappeared before the end, we were slightly upset that you didn’t like our singing 🎶 but we hope that Edie appreciated it.  

It is Roy Hogbens birthday on Sunday 25th,  This was Roy at the Old Time Musical and one of Roy doing what he does best singing at one of our Concerts.  You will find Roy performing on the YouTube videos that  are now on the website under “Events” and then into “Martin’s Legacy”. The videos are from 1981 – 2019.  There are also copies of the programs and other information about the Concerts.  


See if you can find out what he was singing on the videos,  Have a great day Roy and why don’t you buy yourself some bread pudding to celebrate.🎂


This time last year we had very exciting news with Lillian having her baby, Augustine Horatius Sediles.  Born on the 28th April, we thought that Lillian would be bringing him to rehearsals and we would see him growing up but of course that did not happen.  So here he is on the day he was born and all grown up and walking.  And a beautiful photograph of the whole family.  Wow what a difference a year makes. Thank you Lillian for sharing the photographs of your lovely family.


Hope you all have a lovely Birthday Party for Augustine 🎉🥳🎉



THIS WEEKS REHEARSALS

Hello all,

This week, I’d like to spent most of rehearsal in sectionals, but what we’ll do is switch in the middle between Lillian and Chris.

Lillian will start with the Men. Chris will start with the Women. 

Lillian will be rehearsing (30 mins with men, then 30 mins with women)
One Voice
West Side Story
Can you Feel the Love Tonight
Everything’s Coming Up Roses

Chris will be rehearsing (30 mins with women, then 30 mins with men)
Memories
The Lord is my Shepherd
Simon and Garfunkel 
Chattanooga Choo Choo

Depending on how it feels, we’ll take a 7-minute breakout chat in between sectionals, or we’ll socialise at the end!

Hope that makes sense 🙂

See you tomorrow,
Lillian

Something different and nice to try something new.  If you haven’t been for a while why don’t you come and join us and you can sing Happy Birthday to Roy. 

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Hi All



Hope you are all well and by now most of you have had the opportunity for the jab and have not had too many side effects.

We have a Birthday this week it is Richard Close on 22nd April.  Richard Joined the choir in May 2017 as a Baritone.  I am lead to believe that it is a signifiant birthday this year. I hope you have a great day and you don’t look a day over 50.


Have a Wonderful Day Richard – at least this year you can go out! 


Well this time last year was a  busy time with lots of news.  The first breaking news was the birth of Becci Coppens beautiful daughter Edie on the 14th April 2020. Looking back she was to be named Edith Charlotte ‘Lily” Coppen, the name Lily was under consideration as Matt was unsure if he wanted to saddle the children with two middle names as he had been.  He won by a toss of the coin and Ollie only has one, I haven’t heard if Becci won with Edie.
This is the  photograph I sent out of Edie when she was born and the other one on how much she has grown. Beccy has sent some more photographs of Edie’s first year which I will send separately for you to see in case it is too many for one email.  

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What a difference a year makes she is gorgeous- apparently the beers are a present from Grampie, I think Edie may be a bit young for them?  Maybe they were for Ollie? 🍻

Of course we also had the birth of Lillians baby, more about that next week.




We also had sad news in that Martin Small had passed away on the 19th April 2020.  As most of you knew Martin had been associated with the choir  for many years and worked front of house, making scenery, helping with quizzes and keeping archives of the choir and videoing Concerts.  He left all of his archives to the choir and my Chris has now finished digitising them and they will soon be available for you to see on the Website and we will have them now as History for the choir thanks to Martin.  
I only found out recently that he had also bequeathed £1000 to the choir and have heard from the solicitors that we shall soon be receiving it in our bank account,  What a lovely thing for him to do and we will use the money wisely in his memory.
Thank You Martin from the Choir.



MARTIN SMALL 5/11/40 – 19/4/20

COMMITTEE MEETING

We had our Committee Meeting and unfortunately we are no further forward in knowing if we can put on our Concert in October and if we can have an audience or indeed when we can go back to rehearsing.     There is nothing in any of the government guidelines and Making Music are none the wiser and are not giving any useful information out.  But we have to be hopeful that things will improve and we will rehearse the songs we programme on Zoom and at home in the hope that it will happen and it is something to look forward too.  You know the one Always Look On The Bright Side of Life, last sung in 2015 – one definitely to be revised.

I am sad to say that David Jupp has retired from the choir. Although he hadn’t been in the choir for long he did enjoy it and had a lovely Bass voice that I was privileged to hear at his Audition.  It is a shame but he has not been well and finds it impossible to sing now.  Such a shame we send him all our best I am sure.

The other disappointing news was that Lock’nstore have put there weekly charge up. Something we could have done without at the moment.  

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****MESSAGE FROM OUR TREASURER****

GIFT AID

Dear All
 
Now that we have reached the end of the tax year, I am in a position to make a claim to HMRC for the choir’s Gift Aid.  If anyone who normally does Gift Aid has found that their circumstances have changed in the last year, whereby perhaps they have not had to pay tax  and therefore will not qualify to have their subs “Gift-Aided”, could they please let me know by email.
 
Kind Regards
 
Sharon
 
sharont@gmail.com


Please can you email Sharon directly.  Thanks Sharon.


On a good note we did have an enquiry before lockdown from a couple who had moved into the area and they were going to come along to a rehearsal, and then of course we all know what happened.  I got in touch with them to invite them to our zoom meetings, they were not keen on joining in with that but are still interested and would like me to keep in touch to let the know when things are better and would like to come along to a rehearsal.

THIS WEEKS REHEARSAL

I have already sent out what songs we will be looking at but here they are again.  Chris will not be joining us this week he is on holiday in a cottage in Cornwall.  I hope you are having a great time if you read this – probably not -😫😎

Let the River Run – https://youtu.be/bNit57FmCz8
You’ll Never Walk Alone – https://youtu.be/zuDvSS8yLqk
The Lord us my Shepherd – https://youtu.be/yLxdb3ov-zE
Pinball Wizard – (start at 34:54) https://youtu.be/Z_LTcSMAjL4?t=2094
Cantate Domino – https://youtu.be/6o0ertzPRGk
A Million Dreams – https://youtu.be/D3osqo-BfK4
Nella Fantasia – (start at 1:24) https://youtu.be/65U2MNx0mOA?t=84
Another Day of Sun – https://youtu.be/QlHMoZ-98WE

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Well that’s all for now folk, hopefully see you all tomorrow. Don’t forget Page 2 of Week +5


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Hello all,


We are without Chris this Thursday, so we’ll be all together working through the following songs:

Let the River Run – https://youtu.be/bNit57FmCz8
You’ll Never Walk Alone – https://youtu.be/zuDvSS8yLqk
The Lord us my Shepherd – https://youtu.be/yLxdb3ov-zE
Pinball Wizard – (start at 34:54) https://youtu.be/Z_LTcSMAjL4?t=2094
Cantate Domino – https://youtu.be/6o0ertzPRGk
A Million Dreams – https://youtu.be/D3osqo-BfK4
Nella Fantasia – (start at 1:24) https://youtu.be/65U2MNx0mOA?t=84
Another Day of Sun – https://youtu.be/QlHMoZ-98WE

See you then!
Lillian


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Hi All

Well last week I was saying how lovely and sunny it was. This week what on earth is the snow
 ❄️☃️ about?  We  were doing our socially distanced meet up yesterday with some friends, sat outside in thermals, hats, scarves blankets until we thought enough is enough and said we thought it was time to go home when we had a full on snow storm.  OK for us we were going home to a nice warm house my friend Jen and her family who some of you know, thought it was a good idea to be camping in the their garden and Jen was sleeping in the awning!  

No Birthdays this week.

My Chris has now digitised all of Martins videos, he has made YouTube versions and they are also on a hardrive so they are now safely stored for the next whatever years.  This does mean that the VHS tapes are really not needed and they do take up a lot of storage and will probably deteriorate over the years.  Would anyone in the choir like them or have any suggestions as to what we can do with them.

Having finished the videos Chris is now digitising about 76 audio tapes going back to 1983.  These are not as interesting as obviously we can’t see who is singing and they have to be played out loud whilst he is recording so that he knows when they are finished.  At this moment we are listening to a Christmas Concert.   Only another 70 to go!

I sent out the information about our Spectacular 2021 Concert and all of the learning tracks can be found on the One drive (find the link on the website).  All the songs are available for you to listen too but can we ask that you do not share this One drive link with anyone as it is purely for use by current members of New Music Makers.

We have a Committee Meeting on Monday 12th April if you have anything that you would like discussed please let me know.

THIS WEEKS REHEARSAL FROM LILLIAN

Hello all!

Happy Easter! I hope you all had a chance to enjoy the beautiful weather we had.

This week, I’d like to start in sectionals, and then break for
socialising, and then finish all together. Ladies with Lillian, Men
with Chris.

Sectionals:
Memories – OneDrive
Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel – https://youtu.be/je4QtCUO72s
When the Saints Go Marching In – https://youtu.be/OX5FK0qRVto

Together:
All Things Bright and Beautiful – https://youtu.be/qY9G00WWUVI
A Million Dreams – https://youtu.be/D3osqo-BfK4
The Lord is My Shepherd – https://youtu.be/yLxdb3ov-zE
Cantate Domino – https://youtu.be/6o0ertzPRGk
Pinball Wizard – https://youtu.be/XprhylPgCUo

Lillian


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