Concert

Okayyy. So we had already got quite a bit of money from our previous fundraising quests. But this was the big one! We decided to do an evening concert in our village at the parish church. It took a little more organising than we had first anticipated but all went well...in the end.
We first thought that we'd do leaflets/flyers and posters which many people took and a few even gave them away to friends etc. Then we decided that we'd see if we could get something in our local newspaper. They did a brilliant article and they have been brilliant all the way through our fundraising and preparations
Philippa and I are both members of a local choir, the amicis and Douglas Coombes is our musical director (and a fantastic one at that!)We told him about out concert quite a while before and before we knew it, we had people calling and emailing asking if we would like them to perform for us. We ended up with a lot of acts and sadly (yet gladly at the same time) had to turn some away - that just gives some idea as to how much response we had, which really was amazing as we had been quite anxious about how we'd fill a concert!
So then leading up to the concert we had tickets to print, programs to write, rehearsals to organise! Aaah!
I designed the tickets and printed them out a week or so before the concert - and it wasn't long before we had phone calls asking to reserve tickets etc. :)

the 4th June...the anxiety reaaaally kicks in!
I spent the day at philippa's designing programs and making sure we had everything we needed. Frustration was evident due to the rudeness of disobedient printers and human errors! But eventually, we had the programs printed, folded and we were ready to go....!?

The 5th June. Ahh. This was the really scary but where we had to make sure we were calm enough to organise everything!
philippa came to my house in the morning and we practises her solos and panicked about my lack of ability to play Just You Wait from my fair lady - but we overcame that with the wonderful creation that is technology (well...sometimes wonderful anyway) and then we practised our duet - for the first time! And it went suprisingly well!
Not having much time to cook lunch, my mummy put a pizza in the oven which we devoured quickly; possibly through nerves more than anything else!
Then it was my turn to be a pain with the beautiful typical teenage girl question 'what shall I wear?' this was possibly Philippas idea of a nightmare, as we both stood in my bedroom with my every other word being 'but' or anything that simply made me more and more indecisive anyway...eventually I had sorted myself out!
We took all of our things to the church ready to start our rehearsing - which would have been fantastic...if I could unlock the church door. Oh dear. :) fortunately one of the church wardens came to out rescue as she watched me looking rather ridiculous trying to open the door!
And once all that was out of the way, we came into the church to find everything set up wondefully for us! So we began rehearsing! Which was brilliant! Douglas was there which helped greatly to add the finishing sparkle to the wonderfully polished performances we enjoyed in the evening.
Pam Rhodes was out compere, she was marvelous! Inbetween the lovely performances, Pam interviewed me and Philippa as well as doing brilliant introductions for each act, each interspersed with funny anecdotes which helped make the evening bright and cheerful.

Everyone involved was completely amazing, we couldn't have done any of it with out them and they really made the evening so special.
As well as a most enjoyable evening, we raised just over £700 meaning we have raised all if the money required for us to go to Guatemala, any money that we might recieve now will be put towards resources for the trip and also be given straight to the charity!

What next.....? Hmmm....