Music Society Updates

Our final concert for 2009/10 will take place on Saturday night in Carlops Hall (7.30pm start).  This will feature the superb guitarist Simon Thacker, who will be accompanying the hugely talented singer, Daisy Chute.  The pair will be performing songs with a jazzy Latin tinge.

The concert will be 'cabaret' style - the room will be set out informally with tables, nibbles and a soft drink bar.  If you'd prefer something a little stronger, feel free to bring your own bottle - we'll provide the glasses.

Tickets are £9 on the door, free to members and under 16s.

Following a very successful coffee morning on Saturday, the new Pentland Concerts programme has been published and subscriptions are now available.  We have a fantastic line-up this year (see details on our main page), with six concerts for only £40.  Please visit our main page for all the details you need.  We very much hope to see you at our concerts.  Best Wishes, the Music Society.

One of the highlights of last season, or indeed, any other season, was the wonderful guitar recital we were given by Sean Shibe.  Everyone at that concert went away having seen something very special.  Well, we weren't the only ones.  In Monday's Herald, a review by Michael Tumelty of a concert at the Plug Festival in Glasgow was printed.  Among other items, the review said:

"Then came utter magic in Mark Pasieczny's guitar Sequenza, which took the guitar into little-explored, often exotic and always beguiling territory, and played by, I believe, the finest acoustic guitarist I have ever heard, Sean Shibe, a first year student who, incredibly, is still 16.  Remember the name.  One day, he will be famous.  I do not exaggerate."

You heard it in West Linton first!

Thanks to Alan Tweedie for bringing the review to our attention.

Each year, the Society works with West Linton Primary School to stage a musical workshop for the children.  This year, one of the members of the Dalmeny Trio, the clarinetist Joanna Nicholson, and her sidekick Simon, who plays the bassoon, and who perform together as 'Sonsie Music', presented their programme of Scottish music and storytelling to all of children in the school.  The workshop took place on 28 April and went down a storm, with three different groups of pupils taking part in the interactive sessions.

Hilary Elliott, the School's Head Teacher, said:

"My thanks to members of West Linton Music Society with regard to the recent visit from Sonsie Music.  The children all enjoyed the Scottish themed musical performances/workshops.  The younger children were entertained and actively involved in the workshop entitled 'A Moose in the Hoose' with our older pupils enthusiastically participating in 'Blethertoon Braes'.  We are extremely fortunate to have been afforded this opportunity from the Society and greatly appreciate the support offered on this occasion, as on so many other occasions in the past."