hago newsletter 24th March 2006
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This is a web-archive of the Newsletter we emailed to our subscribers in March 2006
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ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER
As always, this free newsletter is a small-scale plain-text production to keep you in touch with what's happening in hago - we always include links into our main website where you can read more, see photos and explore still further, so do click when you see a link...
Welcome to the many people who have subscribed since last issue - our circulation is pushing ever upwards and will soon be up to 100!
CONCERT NEWS... "absolutely brilliant concert" - audience comment
Our Summer programme is now in place.
On May 13th, we head back to Chichester and we not only team up with West Sussex Guitar Club, but one of the UK's finest young professionals, Amanda Cook, is coming to play a set too.
On June 10th, we drive north to a new area for us - Alton - and a lovely venue - the Maltings Centre. We're playing for Project Mali - a charity that hopes to send some Hampshire young adults out to Mali this summer to help with the construction of Centre Gedeon. Read more about the concert and the appeal at www.hago.org.uk/2006/06/ - if you live near Alton or have relatives there, you know what to do!
On July 8th, we return to Portsmouth with our good friends Cambridge Guitar Orchestra for our annual home-and-away shared concert. We're feeding and watering CGO again, and it's a great time to renew acquaintances. Come and hear 5 different sorts of classical guitar!
Read some of the audience comments from our concert earlier this month
WEBSITE NEWS
Well, March 7th saw our Musical Director, Leader and Secretary forsaking Portsmouth to enter enemy territory in the shape of Southampton Football Club (as East Hampshire-ites, we're Pompey supporters and it pains us to have to mention Saints!).
Hampshire County Council were presenting their Hantsweb Web Awards for the finest websites in Hampshire.
There were 133 entrants in the Special Interest Category, and we are delighted and stunned to have come out top. Read all about it here...
www.hago.org.uk/2005/hantsweb-results.php
Hantsweb kindly sent off press releases to our area singling out our site as being of local interest (but the local press chose not to print anything!) Nonetheless, visitors to our home page are up
60% since the victory - let's hope some of those turn into audience and possibly new players. Talking of which...
RECRUITMENT NEWS
We have an alto just looking for a Grade 7+ player to help grow our ranks further - www.hago.org.uk/join
We've been auditioning players recently and our repertoire and commitment are making players sit up and ask about joining. And that's great news.
REPERTOIRE NEWS
Our new 2006 repertoire is now out and about and tested!
Everyone's favourite Palladio remains on our playlist, but it's no longer our finale - we have something better. And if our opening number isn't the most unusual start to a guitar concert that you'll
ever hear, well, we'd be mighty surprised!
If you last heard us a year ago, come and hear our new repertoire - we think you'll approve.
CHARITY NEWS
The amount we've raised for local charities has blasted through the £25,000 mark and it's still going up. Most of our concerts are for charity, so do come if you can.
OTHER NEWS
Victory at the Portsmouth Music Festival for our Musical Director - four of his pupils entered - a trio and a solo. We're delighted to report that the soloist finished "in the frame" in third place, and the trio walked away with a cup!
PUBLICITY
As a non-profit making orchestra, many of whose concerts are for charity, we are always on the look-out for chances to raise public awareness of what we do, preferably at no cost, of course. If you are aware of opportunities to publicise what we do, please reply to this newsletter and send us details - thanks!