Splendid evening at the Capitol, Horsham, as part of the Horsham music Circle's 71st season - they started (keeping the home front's pecker up, no doubt) in 1942...
Wonderful of course, that they are still going and that we can be a small part of it.
Of course, we were treated very well by the people who run the Music Circle, & lots of food was available for us... & we sold really quite a lot of our new songbooks - which is always good...
Easy trip home on a fast train too - amazing to be home at 11.10 & see the last of Denmark's winning of Eurovision.
A couple of gigs to flag up - should anyone be in the environs...
8th June - Ilkley Playhouse
9th July - Grosvenor Chapel, central London - an excellent joint concert with the wonderful school:- St Edmund's, Canterbury
Sunday, 19 May 2013
Friday, 17 May 2013
Cornish Riviera
Delightful trip to Cornwall in the splendid sun (tho' a day earlier we would have been drenched!) to the terrific Fowey Festival - that's pronounced FOY, for those who do not know)...
When we came here at the end of last year there was torrential rain and land-slips, so the journey took about 10 hours each way; great to see it, and travel to it, in glorious sunshine.
The Festival Village & stage is built (under a marquee, of course) each year on the cricket pitch, just by the excellent Fowey Hall, and the Festival has a wonderful range of music, comedians, author talks & Cornish arts, crafts and... beer!
Hoping that not too many of the audience came a day early for the next night's gig, and had the terrible disappointment of our not being Bond...
Just 18 hours in Cornwall not quite enough...
Next, on to Horsham on Saturday!
When we came here at the end of last year there was torrential rain and land-slips, so the journey took about 10 hours each way; great to see it, and travel to it, in glorious sunshine.
The Festival Village & stage is built (under a marquee, of course) each year on the cricket pitch, just by the excellent Fowey Hall, and the Festival has a wonderful range of music, comedians, author talks & Cornish arts, crafts and... beer!
Hoping that not too many of the audience came a day early for the next night's gig, and had the terrible disappointment of our not being Bond...
Just 18 hours in Cornwall not quite enough...
Next, on to Horsham on Saturday!
Monday, 13 May 2013
Fabulous evening
Truly splendid time in Vercelli; lovely playing form the orchestra, excellent audience... and all was happy...
Indeed, Steve sang Skyfall especially brilliantly too!
Hopefully the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with this delightful NE corner of Italy.
Husband and wife team Guido (Conductor/Director) & Cristina (Manager, & pianist too) were wonderful company and a delight to work with...
On the way home via Turin airport, I had a terrific afternoon in the Turin Egyptian Museum - more antiquities than I could really take in - quite fantastic & spellbinding. Then the alps which were sitting there gloriously as we approached Turin were in tremendous light as we flew over them home...
Indeed, Steve sang Skyfall especially brilliantly too!
Hopefully the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with this delightful NE corner of Italy.
Husband and wife team Guido (Conductor/Director) & Cristina (Manager, & pianist too) were wonderful company and a delight to work with...
On the way home via Turin airport, I had a terrific afternoon in the Turin Egyptian Museum - more antiquities than I could really take in - quite fantastic & spellbinding. Then the alps which were sitting there gloriously as we approached Turin were in tremendous light as we flew over them home...
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Italian Job
Today, the sun even came out.
An evening of many composers including Tallis, Vaughan Williams, Warlock, Schubert, Holst, Walton, Dankworth, Lennon & McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Michel Legrand & Adele... wonderful mix, and very much looking forward to this evening... beautiful concert hall, and a large crowd expected...
Friday, 26 April 2013
Best of British:- from Balmoral to Bonheiden, BE
Our second shownight on the Balmoral (British night) went very well; the crowd suitably up for flag-waving and singalong classics.... and so it continues here in Belgium!
Two nights of Best of British in Bonheiden at the GC 't Blikveld - marvellous... another wonderful theatre in Belgium, great staff, great technicians, great food to eat... & a splendid full audience.
First night has gone off swimmingly - perhaps that adverb is too apropos as yesterday's fantastic midsummer weather has turned to drizzle and rain...
We are staying down the road at Mechelen, at Het Anker Brewery (there are bedrooms too)! I do hope other bookers are reading this & realise what a top idea it is for all our future dates... This place produces the best dark beer in the world... I think I shall have to taste quite a bit of it, just to make sure...
PS: It was good to leave the Balmoral to come home at Gibraltar on St George's Day in the glorious sunshine (with wind!)
Two nights of Best of British in Bonheiden at the GC 't Blikveld - marvellous... another wonderful theatre in Belgium, great staff, great technicians, great food to eat... & a splendid full audience.
First night has gone off swimmingly - perhaps that adverb is too apropos as yesterday's fantastic midsummer weather has turned to drizzle and rain...
We are staying down the road at Mechelen, at Het Anker Brewery (there are bedrooms too)! I do hope other bookers are reading this & realise what a top idea it is for all our future dates... This place produces the best dark beer in the world... I think I shall have to taste quite a bit of it, just to make sure...
PS: It was good to leave the Balmoral to come home at Gibraltar on St George's Day in the glorious sunshine (with wind!)
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Balmoral cabaret
Our first pair of shows has gone very well; we have lost our anonymity here on the Balmoral, a ship of the Fred Olsen line.
Wonderful hotel at Sharm el Sheikh, and then we boarded for a quick trip up the Red Sea towards the Suez canal, which we traversed in convoy, starting at 5am; two members of TLQ got up to watch this (not me!)...
Singing Caravan in the cabaret has never felt so apropos...
We had an excellent day exploring ancient and modern Alexandria... very enlightening. We saw where the ancient lighthouse used to be (now the Citadel); did not see the new library... next time! (if only the ancient one had survived...
Lovely size of ship, great staff and an excellent atmosphere, despite these people having been on board for over 100 days already!
Next shows are tomorrow on British night.... altogether now...
Land of Hope and Glory,
Rain stops cricket at Lords,
Red buses and Shakespeare,
John, Paul, Ringo and George,
Tea and Monty Python,
Let's all join the queue,
God knows where we're going,
But we'll muddle through...
© Julian and Maggie Forsyth
Wonderful hotel at Sharm el Sheikh, and then we boarded for a quick trip up the Red Sea towards the Suez canal, which we traversed in convoy, starting at 5am; two members of TLQ got up to watch this (not me!)...
Singing Caravan in the cabaret has never felt so apropos...
We had an excellent day exploring ancient and modern Alexandria... very enlightening. We saw where the ancient lighthouse used to be (now the Citadel); did not see the new library... next time! (if only the ancient one had survived...
Lovely size of ship, great staff and an excellent atmosphere, despite these people having been on board for over 100 days already!
Next shows are tomorrow on British night.... altogether now...
Land of Hope and Glory,
Rain stops cricket at Lords,
Red buses and Shakespeare,
John, Paul, Ringo and George,
Tea and Monty Python,
Let's all join the queue,
God knows where we're going,
But we'll muddle through...
© Julian and Maggie Forsyth
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Le Show in Fayance
Fabulous outing for Le Show in Fayance (just a bit west of Nice in the south of France)... despite BA's best/worst efforts. Clearly bringing my manifestly obviously-labelled bag over to Nice airport was more than they could bear... and having failed thus there was no chance of its seeing France before our show.
Luckily my orange overalls were already in Fayance, but we had to share other costumes... which did rather cut down on costume changes! So the two-tailed, two-tuxedoed quartet was born...
The good people of Fayance took this in their stride, although it did make Moise (the light guy) laugh!
Suzette Forever had its usual effect & much fun was had... and of course being in France, and under the auspices of Jean-Marie Gardon, there was much excellent food and drink (especially enjoyed the rosé)
(For those who wish to know, my bag is presently labelled online as en route to Nice by Monday am, which is nice, as I have been home for over 24 hours... hopefully on Monday they will see my emails and/or hear my calls suggesting their parentage is in doubt...)
On the flight home, we were joined by England manager, Roy Hodgson.. of course, we all had a long in-depth natter together about Rio!
Luckily my orange overalls were already in Fayance, but we had to share other costumes... which did rather cut down on costume changes! So the two-tailed, two-tuxedoed quartet was born...
The good people of Fayance took this in their stride, although it did make Moise (the light guy) laugh!
Suzette Forever had its usual effect & much fun was had... and of course being in France, and under the auspices of Jean-Marie Gardon, there was much excellent food and drink (especially enjoyed the rosé)
(For those who wish to know, my bag is presently labelled online as en route to Nice by Monday am, which is nice, as I have been home for over 24 hours... hopefully on Monday they will see my emails and/or hear my calls suggesting their parentage is in doubt...)
On the flight home, we were joined by England manager, Roy Hodgson.. of course, we all had a long in-depth natter together about Rio!
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