Dear Supporters,
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The Summer Solstice event is still going ahead but with a change of venue as it looks as though the weather has forgotten which season we are in. Please bring a donation towards the cost of hiring the hall and refreshments. There will be a lot of new faces from far and wide, weather permitting, including Anne Lister and many others.
John and Bridget at the Griggs have been following the weather all week and here is their conclusion:
‘It will probably come as no surprise when I tell you that, due to the appalling weather and arctic temperatures, we have decided to abandon the plan for a mid-summer barbeque in the garden tomorrow night, and have moved the venue for the evenings singing to the nearby School Room at Upper Maes Coed Chapel where our May Day evening was so successful.
In place of the b.b.q., we plan to make refreshments available throughout the evening, along with beer, wine, soft drinks, tea and coffee, so any contributions of refreshments will be most welcome.
The Room will be open from 7.00 p.m. and we hope to get started by 7.30 p.m. as we have a lot of singers to fit in.
This will be an evening to remember, See you there,
John and Bridget’
Our thanks go to John and Bridget for taking on the organisation of what will be a great evening. We also, will see you there!
John and Jane Baxter
DIRECTIONS: Leave the B4348 at Vowchurch at the turning signposted for Turnastone and Michaelchurch. This road climbs up out of the valley for approximately 3 miles to Upper Maescoed Chapel which is on your left on the second turning you come to after crossing a common on your right.
Please also see the above attachments regarding a Cajun Cruise on the River Severn on Sunday 8th July.
Also on 8th July there will be a A Service of Evening Prayer as Thomas Hardy would have known it. This will take place at 6.30pm at Clodock Church, just down the valley from Longtown. Vital Spark, a group of singers and musicians from Malvern who specialise in re-creating the West Gallery style of church music, will be taking the musical lead as part of a traditional service on Evening Prayer. Clodock Church has a particularly fine surviving West Gallery which makes this the ideal setting for the performance of a style of church music phased out during the 19th century. The church organ, congregational singing and the more formal polyphonic singing developed from pre-reformation traditions replaced the more rustic style of the West Gallery Choirs. This is a rare opportunity to hear this style of church singing as part of a church service and from an authentic West Gallery.
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