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Daniel Del Piccolo
The evening began in great style with a bagpiper, Daniel Del Piccolo from Betaworks, who played:
- Set 1 - Highland Cathedral
- Set 2 - Lord Lovets Lament, Scotland The Brave, Cock of the North
- Set 3 - The Mist Covered Mountains, Sandys New Chanter, The Clumsy Lover
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Music Club Choir
Next up were the Hursley Choir under the excellent leadership of music club chairman Mike Bailey. They sang:
- If Ye Love Me – Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585)
- Almighty and Everlasting God – Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625)
- Ave Verum Corpus – William Byrd (1542/3 - 1623)
Later in the evening the choir came back again to sing:
- Gray’s Elegy - Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771) set by Paul Guppy to Southport tune by Dr Hayes
- The Fairest Flowers – John Danby (1757 - 1798)
- Ye Spotted Snakes – R. J. S. Stevens (1757 - 1837)
- Hail Smiling Morn – R. A. Spofforth (1770 - 1827)
Singing were: Valerie Cork (soprano), Gillian Peters (soprano), Arden Tulip (alto), Alison Lucas (alto), Mike Bailey (tenor), Robin Cork (bass) and Matthew Peters (bass), with kind guest assistance from Neil Richards (tenor).
If you are interested in joining choir, contact music club secretary Katherine Gunn, or just come to the Osman room one Monday lunch time at 12.15 (or the Kings Head if its the third Monday in the month).
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Fortuna
Fortuna then sang a lovely selection of ladies barbershop, including some barbershop gospel!
Fortuna are: Cath (lead), Mary (tenor), Penny (bass) and Janet (baritone).
Fortuna is a female quartet who sing unaccompanied 4 part-harmony arrangements of popular songs. With a wide variety of musical tastes within the group, their repertoire includes a mix of traditional barbershop songs such as “Dream a little dream of me”, songs from musicals, popular classics such as “What a wonderful world”, gospel and more modern popular songs. The group enjoy singing (and laughing together), but most of all, they love an audience.
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Daisybelles
The talented Daisybelles were on next and sang and danced:
- Me and My Shadow
- Nightn and Day
- I Got Rhythm
- Fever
- Everything's Coming Up Roses
The Daisybelles are: Sue Stockley, Pam Robertson, Sian Gerbino and Roz Fresson
The Daisybelles are an all-women entertainment group who perform regularly in the Southampton area. The group formed was formed by Sue Stockley in 2005 and their first production was “Nunsense”, a musical comedy set in America about 5 nuns. Since then, productions have included light classical, swing band and 1940's style entertainment and the group are now booked by Lunch Clubs and other local organisations on a regular basis. Sue is a singing teacher is Southampton and the group met because of a shared and long standing interest in music.
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