Past Events 2010 -2019
2019
CHRISTMAS IN THE TOY BOX …. Girls and boy, leave your toys…. Santa Claus is comin’ to town, … how far is it to Bethlehem?… we’re walking in the air…..with Staveley Primary School Singers, Cumbria Keldwyth Award winner Rebecca Chandler, Buzz, Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, the Little Drummer boy, a hippopotamus and a donkey. Twelve Days of Christmas might not be enough!
DANCE ME TO THE END OF THE LINE – Ladies and Gentlemen! – We proudly present a concert of dance themed songs in a cabaret atmosphere. Come hear the music! Come taste the wine! … Dancers from Staveley Primary School with choreographer Pippa Colma;, Soloists Rebecca Chandler, Ben Goodman, Patricia White, Ian and Margaret Jones, and of course, the illustrious – the fabulous – our very own David Battersby on piano!
Photos of this concert taken by Steve Tonkin
2018
‘Gathering Winter Fuel’ – festive songs and carols interspersing Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Wenceslas’, dramatically rendered by Rachel Battersby
‘To Live in Hope’ – a reflective concert commemorating the Armistice in 1918
A QUIZ-SING – the Song in Question – every song a a question; piano solo ‘name-that-tune’ medleys; and ‘Pic-tune-ary … lightning-quick drawings by two artists and you guess the song!
2017
‘NOW BRING US SOME FIGGY PUDDING! – not so much a programme as a menu – come to the feast with festive foody songs and carols!
‘GOLDEN LEAVES’ – a concert of SCS favourites in St.Michael’s Church, Shap
‘CRAFTSMAN’S ART AND MUSIC’S MEASURE’ – a summer concert of music matched with paintings by Lake District Artists
The paintings matched to reading and song , in programme order
Photographs of this concert taken by an audience member ...please let me know your name!
‘PRIMAVERA VENTURE’ – a lightsome spring concert with exciting young soprano Rebecca Chandler
2016
‘Christmas in the Garden’ – carols that take you round the garden… there’s Holly and Ivy, a Cherry Tree, Summer in Winter, the Crown of Roses, See Amid the Winter Snow, and so much more.
Somme. Day 122. Do Birds Still Sing? a concert; an installation; an exhibition; a deeply moving experience; to commemorate our village and personal connections with this terrible point in WW1
Photos of this concert taken by Ken Cheetham
Photos of the exhibition accompanying the concert taken by Ken Cheetham
Part of the scrolling slide show on the wall throughout the concert
Some of the faces of local lads who died in the Battle of the Somme
‘A SUMMER OLYMPIAD PROM’ – sporting songs and anthems
‘A SPRING SING; BIRDS, BEES AND BATTLES’ – owls, swans, a cuckoo, a skylark, a blackbird, a blue bird, a brown bird singing; a bumblebee, a bee at a wedding; and poetry from WW1
2015
‘THE SHEPHERDS COME TO TOWN’ – the angelic host appear to Lakeland shepherds on the fells above Staveley, and so they come to town to seek the Christmas babe.
‘AN EVENING SONG’ – music and poetry at the ever-welcoming Kendal Unitarian Chapel
SUMMER PROMS
MOZART’S REQUIEM in Words and Music
2014
CHRISTMAS CONCERT – 15.12.14
VARIETY CONCERT – July 2014
HANDEL’S MESSIAH SCS with Kendal College
2013
‘Ceremony for Christmas’ December 2013
Last Night of the Proms with Kendal Concert Band 12.10.13
CARMINA BURANA with Millennium Youth Choir and Lakes School Choir
2012
Christmas Concert and Carol Service December 2012
IT’S A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING – SCS with Millennium Youth Choir October 2012
SCS AUCTION OF TALENTS 19.05.12
THE WINDERMERE PASSION – written and performed by local people with SCS
2011
Christmas with Staveley Choral 12.12.11
Last Night of the Proms SCS with The Millennium Youth Choir Kendal
Music by GERSHWIN, THE BEATLES and ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER plus more 21.05.2011
2010
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