Hampshire Guitar Orchestra concerts in 2011

Hampshire Guitar Orchestra concerts 2011

This page is part of our living history of hago - a brief record of the concerts we've played over the years...

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News from 2011
hago in pictures 2011

5 March

We played at Petersfield Festival Hall in aid of The Rosemary Foundation

Audience feedback included

Fantastic concert tonight again! Thank you.

Especially liked Penny Lane and the Westlife one. Couldn't stop myself from singing along (in my head of course)!

It was very professional. Amazing playing.

21 May

We were delighted to be asked to play at St Peter's Church Titchfield in aid of "The Titchfield Bonfire Boys" and "Friends of St Peters".

The organiser wrote

Thank you all so much for a brilliant evening. I heard so many comments from people saying how much they appreciated your music and enjoyed your humour. It all culminates in a different and special evening.
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Thank you again for your professionalism and supporting us.

11 June

It was our biennial trip to Cambridge again to play a concert with our good friends the Cambridge Guitar Orchestra.

From Tony Ainsworth, their Chairman

Well Derek, just about recovered from the weekend. It was a wonderful occasion and really did live up to my billing of it being the highlight of our year. I think we really do have something special between our groups and it's lovely to see.

24 June

It was our turn to invite Flautissimo over to our home territory this year, and we enjoyed the chance to play a concert featuring different sizes of flute as well as different sizes of guitar.

The concert was held in St George's Portsea, a wonderfully reverberant and light church.

Audience feedback included

...very good it was too! The ease of which hago play belies all the hard work that goes into it! Well done

...a brilliant evening! Thanks peeps

My first of hopefully… many more Hago concerts was sparkling musical joy. I could have listened to them all night long. To remind me of the lovely music of the evening, I’m even going to change my “ring tone” to Left Bank 2.

2 July

Yet another "return visit", this time to the Royal Star and Garter Home in Richmond, for another special concert with some lovely and special people, this time in the morning, so an earlier start that we're used to!

See photos of the event and our post-concert picnic in our 2011 Photo Gallery