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August 2008
Coming soon - an improved shop to make ordering our MDs ensembles quicker and easier.
Our MD's pieces in the Associated Board's Music Medals books are being played all over the world - here's a YouTube video of some kids turning in a cracking performance!
What a total surprise it was to find ourselves "mentioned in despatches" in the editorial of this month's Classical Guitar Magazine!
July 2008
The concert at URC Hayling, with MD Derek Hasted and New Zealand guitarist Bruce Paine raised £1,500 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Thank you for our support for this very worthy cause.
It was a great privilege to play at All Saints Denmead to a particularly warm and appreciative audience of over 100 people, and moreso to be joined by one of New Zealand's finest players, Bruce Paine, who played "Remembering Prague" by Stepan Rak and joined us for Schindler's List.
June 2008
Last night (21st June) was the opening night of the Portsmouth Festivities. It was a thrill to play at St George's Portsea and to renew our friendships with Cambridge Guitar Orchestra, whose orchestration now includes a 5-string electric bass in certain pieces. What a concert of contrasts! If you came to support us, then thank you so much for coming. We've put a photo of hago playing at the super venue here.
It was great fun to play at the Waterlooville Music Festival, which runs from June 7th to June 15th, and with an audience of 137, it was a really joyful occasion. Indeed we saw our oldest audience member - a lady who was 100 that very week. hago - something for all ages!
May 2008
We've added a non-hago concert to our website, but there is a connection... our MD, Derek Hasted, is teaming up with New Zealand guitarist Bruce Paine for a concert in aid of Motor Neurone Disease - more here...
Our news page has been very quiet, but that doesn't mean that hago has been very quiet! Behind the scenes we've been starting to set up yet more concerts for 2009, and we'll be adding those to our forthcoming guitar concerts page very soon.
April 2008
Tickets for our concert on June 21st with our friends Cambridge Guitar Orchestra are now on sale from Portsmouth Festivities - see our concerts page for contact details
Our concert in Copnor on April 12th raised £363 for their Church rebuilding fund - it's an inspirational project and we are delighted to have been able to help them a little with their mammoth fundraising task. Thank you to everyone who came and supported our evening. Our fundraising total has increased to £36386!
The March Hampshire View magazine, which features a two-page article about us, is now available to download on-line.
We've "taken the care to create interoperable Web pages"