hago concerts - 2003

We were invited across to West Sussex Guitar Club to play a short Recital, followed by a Mini-Workshop that gave WSGC members a chance to sample one of our easier pieces - La Bamba - which is on sale in our Shop.

See photos from the event in our West Sussex Guitar Club Gallery.

Read the review of this event

Following on from the success of our 2002 concert with Cambridge Guitar Orchestra, we travelled up to Cambridge to perform a concert at the Church of St Edward, King and Martyr, Cambridge, as guests of CGO.

See photos in our Cambridge Guitar Orchestra Gallery.

We played our first "rehearsital" in the Seminar Room at the Rowans Hospice, in aid of their general fund-raising. The audience was a mix of staff, volunteer helpers and a couple of patients, and raised £207.

The event was a chance to preview the pieces we'd be playing a week later in our formal concert in aid of The Hospice.

Our Summer concert, shared with our MD's Guitar Workshop, was at St Nicholas Church Centre Bedhampton.

The concert raised £894 for The Rowans Hospice. At the end, MD Derek was presented with ten chickens.

The Hospice wrote

"Thank you for your letter enclosing donations of £894.64. This is a fantastic sum to have raised and we are extremely grateful ... please pass on my sincere thanks ... for such an excellent result. "

Soundclips from the concert...

• Teddy Bears' Picnic - a snippet played by hago's Amber Ward-Saunders & Derek Hasted.
  For sale in The Shop!

We journeyed to the Conway Hall, in Holborn London for the 6th Guitar Orchestra Competition of Great Britain.

Read the story on our Guitar Orchestra Competition page...

Our Christmas concert was the first one that was separate from our MD's Guitar Workshop, and took place at the Rowans Hospice, in the form of another Rehearsital, this time with 19 items.

The concert raised over £260 for Hospice funds.