Members' notice board

Main contents:
  Spring concert (20 March)                amended 1 March
  Cake Stall                                       amended 3 March
  Aquatic Altos                                  added 2 March
  Workshop (8 May)                            added 8 February                                                    
  Summer Concert (17 July)                     
  Message from Mike Hiles                    
  Chilcott concert                              amended 1 March                 
  Facebook                                              
  Gift Aid certificates (new members)          
  Christmas concert - money raised      
  Sopranos 
 
Spring Concert   
Our Spring Concert will be on Saturday 20 March at 7pm at Norman Court School, West Tytherley, Salisbury SP5 1NH. It will be in aid of The Orpheus Centre, a performing arts centre for young disabled people.
Click here for directions to Norman Court School, and click here for a map.
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-  Sign up: At the next rehearsal, please sign up to sing at the concert - so that the correct numbers of chairs etc are obtained.
-  Tickets: £5 each, available at choir rehearsals
-  Parking at the school is very limited, please car-share where possible.
-  Final rehearsal: 3-5pm Saturday 20 March, at the school.
-  There will be lockable changing rooms available, and somewhere to go between the rehearsal and the concert.
-  Bring: snack or sandwiches and a cup - soft drinks etc will be available.
-  Uniform: If our new uniforms (turquoise scarf for ladies, bow tie for men) have arrived we will wear that with black top/trousers/skirt. If the uniform has not arrived we will wear plain black.  

Each choir member will need to attend a minimum of 5 rehearsals to be able to sing in the concert.  CDs of the voice parts are still available, price £1 each to cover costs. 

Cake Stall
The cake stall will be open on Thursday 25th March corresponding with the normal Choir Stall opening. Click here for more details!

Aquatic Altos
6 of our alto section are taking part in a sponsored swimathon on Saturday 27 March, and would like your support. Please visit www.justgiving.co.uk and enter Meg Abel for more information.

Workshop
There will be a workshop on Saturday 8 May, from 10am to 5pm, at St Martin's Centre (next to St Martin's Church).
The workshop will focus on preparing for our summer concert to be held at the City Hall on Saturday 17 July and we would like as many of our members as possible to attend so that we can give a stunning performance!!  The workshop is open to all choir members and will be offered at the subsidised price of £5, so get in early to ensure that you are booked on.
The workshop will be run by Helen Porter, who is an inspirational, bubbly and energetic teacher as well as being a composer, jazz singer and choir leader.  If you would like to find out more about Helen, log on to her website www.counterparts.org.uk
A sign-up list will be available at rehearsals from Thursday 11 February. 

Summer Concert
Our Summer Concert will take place on Saturday 17 July in The City Hall. The theme will be a pot-pourri of Victorian and Edwardian music.

Message from Mike Hiles, Membership Secretary
Confirmation of Enrolment Details:
During the next few weeks Mike hopes to contact, by phone, some forty members whose enrolment forms for the current choir year showed small, but important, differences or omissions in information given, when compared with previously submitted details. He will phone because that will be quicker for him, and easier for you, to confirm the changes or maybe to provide details that have been left off, this year.  He expects any discussion will be brief – time is precious. Thank you, Mike Hiles

Chilcott concert
It is a reflection of the generosity of SCC members that there were so many people who supported sending some of the Chilcott money to Haiti.  The choir Trustees have therefore decided to send half of the money directly to the Disaster Emergency Committee.  

Cranleigh Choral Week
Click here for details about this excellent week of singing at Cranleigh School near Guildford, from 15-22 August.  

Facebook
Salisbury Community Choir has joined Facebook!  Many thanks to Katie Fry for setting this up and managing it.

Gift Aid Certificates
New members who joined the choir in the current year 2009-2010, please click here to read a message from Mike Hiles, Membership Secretary. 

Christmas Concert - money raised
The total amount raised at our Christmas concert was £1220, which has been divided equally between the Salisbury Trust for the Homeless and the Salisbury Samaritans. Well done everybody! 

Sopranos
The choir currently has sufficient numbers of sopranos, so we are temporarily not enrolling any more sopranos. If a soprano would like to join the choir, she would be welcome to join as an alto (or tenor), and migrate to the sopranos when there is a vacancy.  

Minutes
Click here to download a copy of the minutes of the Annual General Meeting which took place on 6 October 2009.