Concert at Kirkpatrick-Durham Church Saturday September 26th
The concert was held in aid of the Car Park Fund and raised £839.
The Church was packed to capacity and not just by friends and family of the performers.
The audience was appreciative and well behaved, perhaps because the first act The Wanted featured three policemen in the talented four man band. There was some expert guitar playing and fine singing, any deficiencies being made up for in decibels. The Mysterious Five somehow translated into the mysterious six. As winners of the KPD has got talent competition they were a popular choice and their manual dexterity with the Diablos was greatly admired.
Nicola and Blackie produced a polished performance of songs composed and arranged by Nicola from the poems of Hugh McDiarmid.This can only have boosted the sale of her new CD.
The sound system and skilful colour lighting were the work of Blackie who transformed the Church into a magical auditorium. Much of the music was organised and arranged by Jonnie Dowswell. John Higgs gave an interesting and often amusing introduction to the musical items for the Quartet
The Vintage Quartet put in one of their rare public performances and apart from some ragged sections in the incantation from the Gordon Jacob suite, played well enough to draw warm applause from a discerning audience
After the interval during which wine, orange juice and nibbles were served our talented Minister Sally Marsh and skilled accompanist Susan Smith gave a moving performance of Gabriel's Oboe.
They then joined the quartet for Handel's Water music a Bach Cantata and then Daisy Bell which an eager audience was quick to join in with some enthusiastic community singing.
Finally everyone joined in with the Kletsmer music which was very popular and called for a final encore.
Fiona McCormick compered the evening impeccably and a comprehensive vote of thanks was proposed by Deirdre Cusack
The tickets and programme were beautifully designed by Mary Burney and the posters by Blackie
The full programme was as follows follows;
Programme
The Wanted 3 acoustic Songs
Ian
& Stuart Wishart Dick
Brown & Martin Smith
Mysterious
Five Ross Bethan Danny
Alex & Chris
Nicola
and Blackie songs
from the poems of Hugh McDiarmid
(Composed
and arranged by Nicola)
Vintage
Quartet: J Higgs:
clarinet, J McCormick: violin,
J
Hesselgreaves: viola, J Dowsweli:
cello
Gavotte
from Greig Holberg Suite
Crusell
Clarinet Quartet: Romance
Gordon Jacob Suite
Prelude
Gavotte
Incantation
Folkdance
The
King of the Fairies (Irish Traditional arr. J Dowswell)
Interval
(refreshments in the hall)
Sally
Marsh: Oboe, Susan Smith: Keyboard
Gabriel’s
Oboe- Ennio Morricone
Vintage
Quartet with Sally and Susan
Handel:
Air from Water Music (Oboe & violin, clarinet, viola, cello)
Bach:
Sheep may safely graze (Oboe, violin, clarinet, viola, cello, and keyboard)
Daisy
Vintage
Quartet with
Sally & Susan Nicola Black: guitar,
Blackie:
drums, (J Dowswell:
Cello, Double Bass)
Scholem
sol jahn
Cyganeczka
Nani'sWaltz
Lomir
Tanzen
Osenniy
Waltz
Bashana
Shalom
End