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Hello and welcome to the official internet home of Pakefield Singers.
Here you can find out the latest news on the Singers, the history
of the Society and read press releases.
HEAR AND SEE THE SINGERS.... See the Recordings Page for newly
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| LATEST
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OSunday 7th June saw Pakefield Singers at St Mark’s
Church performing as part of the Organ Appeal on Sunday
7th June. This Concert was one of a series being staged
in the Church’s 125th Anniversary year in order
to raise money for the restoration of the church organ.
The cost of this restoration is some £32200 plus
VAT.
The organ is believed to have originally built as a house
organ by JW Walker & Sons (then of Francis Street,
off the Tottenham Court Road) in the 1850s for a residence
in Willesden. Its later history is thought to include
time spent as a temporary instrument in Norwich Cathedral.
The cathedral had lost its organ in a fire in 1938, and
this was rebuilt 1940-42, although the casework was not
completed until 1950. The Walker organ was then rebuilt
and transferred to St Mark’s, Oulton Broad in 1951,
where it has served ever since.
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| FUNDING
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The Society
is self-funding and receives no sponsorship income.
It does, however, continue to have significant regular
costs in the form of rehearsal costs over 46 weeks
of the year, whereas most choral societies only
rehearse for 30 weeks or less a year for the same
membership fees. There is also the cost of buying
sheet music. As we are a choir with a continuously
growing repertoire, rather than a choral society
doing single performances of single works, we therefore
cannot hire our sheet music, but have to have enough
copies of each item of our repertoire for each member.
This means that we have to buy our music, an additional
cost compared to most choirs / choral societies.
It is not a case of buying one and giving the members
photocopies, as photocopying music is strictly illegal.
We have however, been very fortunate in obtaining
a number of grants which have been essential for
the Society's development.
Suffolk County Council
Locality Budgets, Awards for All, Shell Exploration
and Production, and Anglia Regional Cooperative
Society have supported us. The Society gratefully
acknowledges all the very generous financial help
that it has received. However, there are continuing
financial demands as we further develop our technique
and repertoire. A recent example was our 2007 tour
to Aarhus in Denmark at the invitation of the Danish
choir Kor-I-Nord. This was only possible due to
the fundraising efforts of many people, both by
the members of the Pakefield Singers and many of
those outside.
If you wish to sponsor the Society or know of anyone
who might wish to sponsor us, please leave a message
for the Society on the Contact
page».
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| PERFORMANCE
RISERS & TRAILER |
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We had our tiered performance
risers specially constructed in order that we can
perform in a variety of curved or straight formations.
The whole outfit is assembled from many light components,
allowing the whole assembly to be easily put together
and taken apart for each concert.
Suffolk County Council Locality Budgets largely
supported their purchase in 2005.
Top two pictures show how the risers were set up
for our concert at St Peter & St John Church,
Kirkley in June 2008.
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This
is how the risers were set up at the St Felix
School Concert in March 2009. These risers
are available free for other groups to use.
If you would like to use the risers for your
own group’s performance then please
contact the Events Coordinator Alan Honeywood
on 01502-564007 for details
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In order to store and transport the risers, we also
had this trailer specially built. The trailer is then
able to be towed to and from our performance venues
with a medium-sized car.
Again we were able to secure funding from Suffolk
County Council Locality Budgets, which largely financed
its purchase.
So you need to look out for us, as we get ready for
our concerts. |
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| Site updated 18th July, 2009 |
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