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| WELCOME |
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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
NEWS |
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Hallelujah! A World of Sacred Song
at St Peter & St John, Kirkley on 7 June on behalf
of the South Lowestoft Salvation Army. What a concert!
Pakefield Singers go from strength to strength. As has
become a Pakefield Singers tradition, there are often
guest performers, and this time we were delighted to be
at the first performance of the North Suffolk Youth Choir.
They did us proud, and after only meeting together 3 times
in the last four months!! May they go on to greater things
and we look forward to hearing more about them in the
future.
As we usually do now, there are some photographs of the
concert. You will need to go to the ‘Pictures’
Page to see the latest gallery of photos.
For a full review go to www.onesuffolk.co.uk/reviews/pakefieldsingers.htm
See the ‘Future Events’ Page for details of
our Cabaret-style evening on Saturday 13 September 2008.
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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
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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.
This is how the risers were set up for our concert
at St Peter & St John Church, Kirkley in June
2008.
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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 5th August, 2008
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