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Report for 2009/10 "Not Strictly Barbershop" has,
once again, had another busy twelve months. Our sessions are full of fun,
at the same time the group work hard as a team to get to the standard that
we now achieve after 7 years. We are a mixed voice group who love to sing
in the Barbershop Style as well as close harmony arrangements. We have
branched out this year to classical music and started to learn "Air on a G
string" by J.S. Bach (the one popularised by a certain cigar
advert!) We have had six more members this
year, making 30 altogether. However, we are still open to include more
members especially basses. We meet weekly throughout most of
the year scaling down to once a fortnight between May and September. This
is a good time to introduce new members and to learn new music. We have
about 6-8 gigs a year singing at after dinner events and for groups such
as Probus and local WI. We also add variety and include a couple of short
sketches to our longer programmes. In October 2009 we sang at
Wolstanton United Reform Church with another local group the Alton
Handbell Ringers. This
included a joint item, "As Long as I have Music" which was specially
arranged by the two musical directors, Sarah and Wendy.
In the autumn we were followed
around by BBC"s Radio Stoke Rob Adcock and appeared regularly on Mary
Fox"s early evening "Drive-time Show". We finished the
year in a very exciting, and nerve wracking, way when we sang four
Christmas songs live "on air" on December 23rd! We have a live performance
recording on "You Tube". (just type in our name in
the website"s search box) We are booked for 6 concerts in
2010 (see
list of gigs opposite) and our 2011 diary is nearly full! REPERTOIRE A typical concert programme would
be: Are you from
Dixie? Fly me to the
Moon Honey Sleepytime
gal Over the
rainbow Stand be
me Sweet Cider
Time Once in a
while Peg o´ my
heart Pink
Panther Blue
Heaven I never
Knew When you wore a
tulip
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Not Strictly Barbershop on the Sentinel Website GIGS
Sat Mar 20th Arts Festival Concert at Cheadle Methodist Church at 7.30pm. This is a charity concert and open to the public. We are sharing the evening with three other contrasting local groups - The Alton Handbell Ringers, The Churnet Valley Male Voice Choir and The Pugin Singers. Tickets are £5 each from Joan Charles 01538 757545.
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