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Melksham Events April/May 2006
APRIL
FRIDAY 28TH
7.30pm: ‘Get Up & Dance’ at Melksham House with disco from Sound System & live music from Karizma, in aid of cancer patient Gill Goodhind. At Melksham House, everyone is invited. Tickets £8 each (£5 conces-sions, students & OAPs), available from Melksham TIC & Melksham House.
SATURDAY 29TH
10.00am-4.00pm: Melksham 1st Spring Festival at Bath Road car park & King George V playing field. Entertain-ment, displays, demonstrat-ions, stalls, arts & crafts. Free.
MAY
TUESDAY 2ND
7.30pm: M.A.S.K. present The Gondoliers at Central Methodist Church, Monkton Hill, Chippenham. On until 6th May. Tickets £5 (concessions £4), available from Haine & Smith Opticians in Chippenham.
friday 5th
2.15pm: Melksham Civil Service Retirement Fellow-ship meeting in St. Michael’s Church Room, Canon Square. A talk on ‘Lady Jane - a Victorian lady’, by Iris Smith. Come along & enjoy. New members will be welcomed.
7.30pm: Philomel female voice choir will be at Melksham United Church in the High Street. Conductor Madge Norris, accompanist Stephen Cooke. Tickets £5, available from Melksham Tourist Information Centre, church choir members or on the door. Proceeds towards organ fund.
MONDAY 8TH
1.30pm-3.15pm & 5.00pm-7.15pm: Blood donor sessions at Cooper Avon Sports & Social Club, Melksham. All welcome.
SATURDAY 13TH
7.00pm: Melksham Lions Club present Maesteg & District Male Voice Choir at Melksham House. Guest artistes, Tony Kingsbury, tenor, Sally Ann, soprano. Admission £6 (limited), available from Melksham Town Hall, Melksham TIC, Melksham House & Tony Mortimer on 01225 705062.
SUNDAY 14TH
8.00pm: Melksham Folk Club will meet at the Rachel Fowler Centre in the Market Place for their monthly meeting. Please bring your own drinks. All welcome.
In Depth:
5TH MAY
THE Trowbridge Ladies’ Choir, Philomel, will be at the Melksham United Church to give a concert in aid of the church organ fund on Friday 5th May.
Philomel was founded by Madge Norris in 1989 to give three or four concerts a year to raise funds for local, national and international charities. Since their formation they have raised over £20,000 for charities such as Save the Children, Voices for Hospices and Dorothy House and raised funds for church roof replace-ment and organ restoration.
Melksham United Church is planning a series of musical events at Melksham to raise money for their organ fund. Refurbishment of the organ was undertaken in 1990 but a great deal of work is still required to improve the tuning stability and the condition of the sound board.
The concert is at 7.30pm on Friday 5th May at Melksham United Church. Tickets at £5, to include refreshments, are available from the Tourist Information Centre, Church Street, and from church members or on the door.
12TH MAY
THE 25th birthday of the Rainbow Day Centre will be celebrated on Friday 12th May, and all past and present volunteers and members are invited to an open day at the Riverside Club in Bath Road, from 11.00am onwards.
There will be a buffet lunch and it is hoped that all friends will join the centre to mark this special occasion.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the wonderful volunteers who over the past 25 years have worked so hard to make the centre a success,” said Christine Purnell, organiser. “I have received marvellous support from many during that time and it has been a privilege to be the organiser. As I shall be retiring shortly, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome our new organiser, Jenny Phelps, and hope that she will find the job as rewarding and enjoyable as I have done. Here’s to the next 25 years! Good luck Rainbow!”
AN evening of clair-voyance, ‘The True Power of Three’, will be held at Spencers Sports & Social Club in Melksham on Friday 12th May at 7.00pm.
“When the doors open for a return visit to Melksham of the ‘True Power of Three’, then this will be a labour of love for Dave, Ann and Paul,” said a spokesperson for the event.
“The friendly people, and atmosphere, at Spencers Sports & Social Club has such extremely good vibrations that this is one of their favourite venues. “The ‘Power of Three’ put this down to the participation of the audience, who alone are responsible for generation of the energy that invites in our old friends and visitors from the other side of the veil, allowing it to be temporarily moved aside for a short while.
“All three members of the ‘True Power of Three’ have their own unique and individual talents that they have developed separately.
“Each felt that they had been guided to the others by an unseen hand and that all their spiritual development to date had been to prepare them for their present roles helping to bring messages of comfort to those that are prepared to listen.
“The ‘Power of Three Team’ members are painfully aware that they have a most serious and precious duty to pass the messages from the other side as received.
“While it is true to say that Dave, Ann and Paul have absolutely no control over the content of the messages, they do have control over how the message is given, with an explanation where needed.
“One of the enduring characteristics of both worlds is that humour and laughter is common to both, and that passing over merely seems to allow a person’s sense of humour to come to the forefront, which can make the night very uplifting indeed, if not a little riotous at times.
“The ‘old timer’ of the team is Dave Viney and he has been immersed in the spiritual scene as a healer and medium for some 22 years. About 12 years ago Dave felt impelled to progress to platform and has gone from strength to strength as his abilities developed.
“In the last two to three years, encaustic art has become one of Dave’s chosen methods of receiving and interpreting messages.
“Although not a trained artist, Ann Oliver became involved through her love of art, as she felt compelled one day to pick up a pencil and sketch, which she did with some trepidation.
“Paul Derrick, an engineer and a retained firefighter, discovered his natural gifts only 18 months ago, although with hindsight there were indications throughout his early life that he now realises he chose to ignore at the time. Paul connects directly with the spirit world to give messages to those around him and can work with people over extreme distances, even by telephone.”
For more information call Spencers on 01225 702216.
13TH MAY
MELKSHAM Lions Club will be presenting Maesteg and District Male Voice Choir on Saturday 13th May at Melksham House.
This is an annual event and always proves popular with a sell-out crowd and this year is earlier than normal, so the Lions suggest you buy your tickets soon!
Maesteg and District Male Choir is not the biggest or the oldest Welsh choir, but it is certainly one of the busiest and definitely one of the most popular.
A glance at their scrapbook will show that since it was formed, in 1974, the choir has been in constant demand and has travelled far and wide, raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity, whilst entertaining audiences in large city venues and small village halls throughout the UK and abroad.
Their biggest engagement so far came in September 1996 when they took part in Britain’s premier annual classical music event, The Last Night of the Proms. They were the only male choir to take part before a huge audience in Hyde Park, London, with a live link to the Royal Albert Hall.
The choir sang seven items and also had the honour of leading the string finale of Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem and Rule Britannia. They also shared the billing with James Galway and other stars.
The choir has also made numerous television and radio broadcasts, appeared before royalty on several occasions and shared the stage with some notable stars.
It was as a result of one such concert that Charlie Chester wrote two songs specifically for the choir and later became their first patron.
The choir was formed to revive the long tradition of choral singing in Maesteg a’r Cylch (Maesteg and District Male Choir), reflecting the bilingual ability of many of the choristers, whose ages range from the 30s to the 70s and whose occupations are equally diverse.
Tickets cost £6 and are available from Tony Mortimer on: 01225 705062, Melksham Tourist Information Centre, and Melksham Town Hall.
26TH MAY
A GLAMOROUS black-tie event will celebrate the fifth anniversary of a charity transforming the lives of local youngsters on 26th May.
The Frenchay After Burns (FAB) Children’s Club is due to hold its annual ball at Tortworth Court in South Gloucestershire on Friday 26th May. Tickets for the event are now on sale, although Melksham volunt-eers are still keen to receive prizes for the auction and raffle.
Last year, the ball raised around £6,000 to support the rehabilitation of young victims of domestic blazes, arson attacks and accidents, but the charity faces growing demands for help. Last year more than 230 people attended the event from across the region, including nurses and surgeons, their family and friends, fundraisers and other supporters.
Alison Hanney, FAB spokesperson added, “This year, one of the children has asked if she can address the audience to tell them about how the charity has transformed her life.
“We hope her bravery in sharing her personal story will help people to realise just how much the children need our support.”
Tickets, £37.50 each, are available from 0117 970 1212 extension 3499, or 07821 989845. Raffle and auction prizes can be offered through the same numbers.
Last edited by Ben79, 4/27/2006, 3:02 pm
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