Band and Choir Stage Successful Fund Raiser

24 Mar 2010

Over 50 musicians from The Nottingham Concert Band and 25 singers from local chamber choir In Accord performed in St Mary Magdalene Parish Church in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire on Saturday 20 March to raise funds for Victim Support in the county.

A full audience heard Nottingham Concert Band (Robert Parker) deliver a British-themed programme including Kenneth Alford"s Standard of St George, Frederic Curzon’s Robin Hood Suite, highlights from Oliver!, a selection of favourites from the stage and screen musical by Lionel Bart, arranged by Ted Ricketts.

The band’s programme was interspersed with two sets by In Accord (Jon Wakefield) the choir performed a variety of numbers, including several lively gospel songs

The band has a busy summer season planned, and it been invited by the Royal Society of St George to head the St George’s Day Concert in Nottingham’s Albert Hall on the evening of Friday 23 April.