Hi Everyone
We’ve been thinking long and hard about the sad loss of our festival
this Christmas and feel that we should raise our voices and sound
our instruments in a *Virtual Grand Sing*! The big difference is
that we will have no chairs to shift, cups of tea to make, lunches
and teas to sort, ticket sales to manage, etc! But we will have
plenty of carols to sing and guests to listen to!
*The date for your diary is Saturday 28 November 2020, 7.30-11.00 pm*.
The Virtual Grand Sing using Zoom, Facebook or YouTube will feature
many favourite local carols from South Yorkshire and North
Derbyshire plus special guests.Our guests will include local solo
carollers includingWill Noble, Rosie Hood and Manny Grimsley from
the Royal at Dungworth; John Fowler from the Blue Ball at Worrall;
Peter Bearon and Alison Whitaker from the George at Upper Denby;
John Bowden from the Black Bull at Ecclesfield and the Old Red Lion
at Grenoside; and Sebastian Stone from Great Longstone. Our special
guests are Parti Bronheulog, Plygain Carol Singers from North Powys,
Wales, plus Rhiannon Ifans and Trefor Pugh, also from Wales.
During the evening there will be the opportunity to join in with
fourteen or more of the favourite local carols plus the choruses of
the solos. The carols for all to sing will include: ‘Awake Arise
Good Christians’, ‘Hark Hark! Hark Hark!’, ‘Liverpool’, ‘Back Lane’
, ‘Jacob’s Well’, ‘Joy to the World’ (Foolow), ‘Curly Hark’ (Eyam),
‘Peace o’er the World (Castleton) , ‘Mount Zion’, ‘Old Foster’ ,
‘Star of Bethlehem’, ‘Portugal’, ‘Mount Moriah’, and ‘Merry
Christmas’. All these carols are included in either /The Sheffield
Book of Village Carols
<http://www.villagecarols.org.uk/publications/sheffield-book.html>/
or /The Derbyshire Book of Village Carols
<http://www.villagecarols.org.uk/publications/derbyshire-book.html>/
which has just been published in a new enhanced edition.
Please see the website
<http://www.villagecarols.org.uk/events/festival-of-village-carols-goes-virtual.html>
to reserve a place and you will receive a free set of words. Places
can be registered from Monday 2 November, free of charge.
Registration closes on Friday 27 November.
If you require the music scores
<http://www.villagecarols.org.uk/publications/index.html>, these can
be emailed as a pdf at a cost of £3.50. Further enquiries 01224 645486.
Village Carols > Publications
<http://www.villagecarols.org.uk/publications/index.html>
Very best wishes
Ian
Ian Russell, Professor Emeritus, MBE
Director of Village Carols
/Donations to the Festival of Village Carols will be gratefully
received via PayPal. After overheads have been covered, the surplus
will be donated to //Weston Park Cancer Charity in memory of Chris
Lowry, a much-missed former member of our festival committee./
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Village Carols.*
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Ian Russell, Professor Emeritus, MBE
The Elphinstone Institute
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen
AB24 5UA
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