An ‘Evening Music and Song’ helped raise over £1,500 for the
Rainbows Hospice and Nottingham Emmanuel House Day Centre with a concert at
Beeston’s Chilwell Road Methodist Church on Saturday April 21st.
The concert celebrated the Queen’s Birthday and Diamond
Jubilee, so it was appropriate that Newstead Brass and musical director Duncan Beckley
opened the concert with Handel’s ‘Music for the Royal Fireworks.’ The band demonstrated their versatility by
also including music from stage, screen swing and the salvation army in their
programme.
The concert also featured songs from Andy Ward (Tenor) and young
debutants Sam Barson (Tenor) and Lily Taylor-Ward (Soprano) in a varied and high quality programme introduced by broadcaster
Colin Slater MBE. As befitting for an event so close to St. George’s day, the concert
ended with the audience joining all the performers for ‘Land of Hope and Glory’
and ‘Jerusalem’.
The event was promoted by the Stapleford and Sandiacre
Rotary Club with financial support from Paul Clements Shelton & Co, Sinbad
Plant Hire and Westerman builders.
