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Sopranos. Nita Adams, Pauline Aldridge, Thelma Alison, Lesley Ballan-

tyne, Patricia Bateman, Mary Brough, Mo Cleaner, Sandra Crawford, Lillian

Davidson, Heather Dawson, Florence Dunnett, Gilleoin Finlay-Coull, Irene Fox,

Natalie Harmsworth, Mary Holgate, Ida Lugton, Angela McErlain, Catherine

McEwan, Lindsay Millar, Margaret Okell, Hilary Richardson, Ruth Smith, Agnes

Thorburn, Claire Underwood, Maria Young,

Altos Stella Allan, Christine Barraclough, Elizabeth Bruce, Ivy Campbell, Ros

Campbell, Margaret Crankshaw, Moira Dryden, Bridget Gillespie, Rhoda

McCallum, Jennifer Phibbs, Kate Pollock, Dorothy Reilly, Carine Roberts, Sylvia

Shearer, Moira Stevenson, Jane Wilson

Tenors Les McEwan, Matthew Blair, John Buchanan, Tony Cormack, Bill

Elliot, Anne Mackay, Mitch Thomson

Basses David Richardson, David Barraclough, David Kington, Jack Kirk, Bob

Lees, Jim Linn, Mick Nugent, John Okell , Andrew Watt,

Conductor: Jessica Leary

Accompanist: Donald Thomson

The Dalkeith Singers.

Website www.dalkeithsingers.org.uk

Facebook - www.facebook.com/dalkeithsingers Scottish Charity No. SC032339

The Dalkeith Singers gratefully acknowledge financial support from Midlothian Council

Interested in joining us ... ? If the thought of singing magnificent choral music as part of a large choir appeals to you,

do have a word with Jessica or any member of the choir about joining us. We rehearse on

Thursday evenings in St. Nicholas Buccleuch church hall. There is no audition, but Jessica

will happily listen to you and suggest which part would suit you best if you are not sure.

Printed for the Dalkeith Singers by St. Mary’s - the Church in the Park.

Phone 663 7000 to discuss your printing needs and see if we can help. Spring Concert 2017

St. Nicholas Buccleuch Church, Dalkeith,Saturday, May13th, 7.30pm

Conductor Jessica Leary

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Welcome ! On behalf of The Dalkeith Singers I welcome you to our Spring Concert, 2017. the first under our new Musical Director, Jessica Leary. We are also delighted to have two musicians joining us, Bob Miller on Bass Guitar and Neil Wilson on Drums, who will be accompanying some of the pieces. We hope you enjoy our concert this evening and that you will again generously support our nominated charity which this evening is Parkinson’s UK.

Irene Fox, Chair, Dalkeith Singers.

From the Musical Director

Our performance this evening draws upon spiritual and folk music

from across the world. The pieces stem from a variety of different

cultures and geographic locations. All speak in their own way of the

hopes and fears of the communities in which they originated.

We open our first half with the song cycle Feel the Spirit, - John

Rutter’s beautiful arrangements of African-American spirituals. The

songs combine words that tell of the hardship and longing of life under American

slavery with age-old melodies in Rutter’s distinctive arrangements. We then turn to

Africa to round off our first half, with a Namibian prayer Meguru. Our second half opens

with a distinctly European flavour in the form of Mozart’s ‘Laudate Dominum’ from

Vesperae solennes de confessore. We then pop in to Tennessee before coming home to

sing a couple of Scottish folk songs, and end on a high note (Swedish style!) with our

ABBA medley.

I very much hope you enjoy our performance this evening. On a personal note, I would

like sincerely to thank everyone for making me feel so welcome in my first term with

the Dalkeith Singers. I have been impressed by the enthusiasm, energy and dedication

that they have shown and it is a pleasure to work with such a friendly bunch. I very

much look forward to my time ahead as a member of the Dalkeith Singers family.

Jessica Leary 3

Programme

1. Feel the Spirit Trad. arr John Rutter Joshua fit the battle of Jericho

Steal away

I got a robe

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Every time I feel the Spirit

Deep River

When the Saints go marching in.

2. Meguru Trad. Namibian

INTERVAL

3. Laudate Dominum W. A. Mozart

4. Sourwood Mountain Tennesee folk song, arr. John Rutter

5. An Eriskay Love Lilt Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, arr. Brian Trant

6. Air Falalalo Hugh Roberton and Ken Johnston 7. My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird Bob Chilcott

8. Hallelujah Leonard Cohen arr. Will Schmid

9. Mamma Mia Medley B. Andersson & B. Ulvaeus arr. Mac Huff I have a dream

Mamma Mia

S. O. S.

Take a chance on me

Thank you for the music

Dancing Queen

Waterloo

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