SAD NEWS

Two Sundays ago we had a really enjoyable concert fro the newly formed Gipsy jazz group[p, Trio Anglais.  Wonderful playing and an atmospheric afternoon. We wish them well for the future. The cake was pretty good too!

Sadly it has turned out to have been the last concert this year.  The event planned next month of a carol concert by the J Singers has had to be cancelled for reasons out of our hands.    Can you help spread the word amongst your friends who may have put it in their diaries ?

It was to have been the last concert for the foreseeable future. As many of you know, i signed off in June as Director of Music at Cannington after sixteen years and at present there are no more concerts planned. It would be nice if some one decided to continue the series after all this time;

 maybe when they are appointed the new Director will want to do it. 

 We shall keep your details and will inform you if there is any good news in the months to come.

Thank you for your support over the years. We have brought some really good music to the village and i think you enjoyed it.!

Happy Christmas

Concerts for November and December 2017

There are only two more musical events in this year’s season of Cannington Music.   The one for December is a Concert of Christmas Music by the J Singers, the Bridgwater based choir..   They have sung for us several times at Cannington and are always popular. Make sure you have the date in your diary   7.30 pm Saturday 16 December.

But before that, at 3.30pm on Sunday 19th November, we have a different kind of treat.  An afternoon of French style gypsy jazz with Trio Anglais.

Trio Anglais is a Reinhardt/Grappelli gypsy swing band, playing one of the most exciting and potent forms of European jazz, emulating the sound of 1930s Paris: with Ali Foyle, violin, Dave Lunniss and Darren Hodge, Guitars.

Ali Foyle is a professional violinist previously teaching and performing mostly classical music. She played with the folk band “HOPPING MAD”, before moving into swing jazz in 2012 as a vocalist and violinist with local band, THE NIGHT OWLS. When they disbanded last year, she was delighted to find Dave and Darren and a place with Trio Anglais. She recently appeared at the Upton Jazz Festival and has been to the Netherlands to study with the internationally renowned jazz violinist, Tim Kliphuis. She brings a lyrical and swinging style to the band that sits perfectly with hot club jazz.

Darren Hodge.  After picking up the music of Chet Atkins and Merle Travis, Darren has played up and down the country at many shows and festivals, including Glastonbury Festival and The London Acoustic Guitar Show, as well as taking part in Sky Arts Guitar Star in 2015. Recently Darren has been playing the music of Django Reinhardt with Trio Anglais and has been considered one of the best young guitarists in the country.

Dave Lunniss has been an integral part of the UK gypsy jazz scene for many years. He became well known as rhythm guitarist with SWING 39 and BOULEVARD DJANGO, for his performances with Matcho Winterstein and Colin Cosimini, as well as for festival gigs in Denmark, Ireland and France.

Entrance , pay at the door only, is £7 and will include tea and cake, as is usual for our afternoon concerts. Children and students  half price.

Mary Morgan and Gershwin

What a simply splendid organ concert Ed Jenkins gave us last month.  He enjoyed himself too. he loves the organ - it was a  splendid thing that the Parish did to renovate it a few years ago.  Ed asked if he could come again, maybe next year.

I would love this to happen but there is a possible problem.

As many of you may know by now, after sixteen years as Director of Music at Cannington, I am stepping down at the end of June.  I have promised the Rector that I shall run the concerts, which I started in 2002, for the rest of this year but unless we can find someone to take up the reins they may cease.  I really hope not. So if you think you might be able to help, in any way, please contact me.

I am particularly happy that the last concert in which I shall play is on June 11.  What makes me even happier is that I shall be working with Cannington's own Mary Morgan. She has helped me so much during my time here and together we raised several thousand pounds to renovate the organ.  Mary and I have agreed that we should like the profits from this concert to go to a fund to renovate the churches lovely Broadwood grand piano.  Broadwood is the oldest piano maker in the world. Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn   all owned them. I am lucky enought to own two! It is a lovely instrument.   But a series of accidents with flower vases and other things over the last decades has left the top badly damaged.  To refinish the top and glue back the veneer is stage one. I hope that also we can also fit either a triangular metal frame to stabilise it when moved or at least to fit big rubber tired castors to make for easy movement over the bumpy stone floor. And to cap it all a waterproof padded cover to protect it when not in use.

At the bottom I will print a list of the concerts for the rest of 2017 but, just now, I want to persuade you to come to hear our music on Sunday 11th June at 3.30 pm. Mary and I will be singing and playing a programme of music by George Gershwin.  Since it is an afternoon concert there will be tea and cake in place of wine during the interval.  So bring your friends , pay £7.00 at the door (children come free) and have a good time.

Cannington Music

concert plan for 2017

February

28th  Charlie Hearnshaw  jazz trio.  Parisian cafe Music

March

Lent   no concerts

April

  Saturday 29th   7.30 pm organ concert  Ed Jenkins,   

June

Sunday 11th  3.30 pm Mary Morgan and Michael Martin sing Gershwin

September

Saturday 24th  7.30 pm Ruth Molins  flute

November

  19th  Sunday afternoon St Cecilia tide organ concert   

December

16th  Sat     J Singers   Christmas carol Concert

I do hope you can manage to come, it should be a really good evening and another chance to hear the lovely sound of the rebuilt organ.

It would great to see young people so children and students may come for free!

Here is a gentle reminder that the first of our concerts for 2017 is almost upon us!

An evening in Paris

On Pancake Day The Charlie Hearnshaw trio are giving a programme evoking Parisian chanson and cafe life. 

The leader of the trio  is Charlie himself who plays clarinets with great skill, Maxine Green sings wonderfully and plays guitar, at the same time!  The ensemble is held together and supported by double bass player  Mike Thorne.

They last appeared in Cannington about ten years ago and were very well received.  Come along for an enjoyable relaxing evening listening to the music of Edith Piaff, Jaques Brel and much more. There will be the usual refreshments in the interval.

Cannington Parish Church. Shrove Tuesday, Pancake day, Mardi Gras, February 28 at 7.30 pm   £9 entry at the door only, children and students half price.

you can hear them play via these links

http://www.charliesax.co.uk/frenchcafemusic.htm

 http://www.projetbrassens.eclipse.co.uk/

St Cecilia concert - programme

Would Leonard Cohen have been a lutenist?

In the 16th century, long before mp3 files and that now old fashioned  medium the CD (or in my house the LP!) people wrote and sang songs, about  deep feelings of life and mortality and matters of the heart and accompanied them on the lute.

Nowadays we often talk of singer songwriters. The death last week of Leonard Cohen  reminds us strongly of this tradition.  Yes, I think that if he had lived in an earlier time he would have been a lute song writer.

On Sunday afternoon we have a chance to hear music from  this time. Mary Morgan, soprano and Steve Graham, lutes,  return with a short programme of music, for solo lute and songs. Music by Thomas Campion,,  Morley and many others.       Come and hear them, you wont regret it.

4.00 pm Sunday 20th November. Cannington Parish Church. admission £8.00 students and children free.  Tea and home made cake for all!

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