hampshire guitar orchestra newsletter

This is a web-archive of the Newsletter we emailed to our subscribers in October 2008

The passage of time may mean that some links to external sites are out of date or broken

ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER ... 100+ readers now!

This free newsletter is a small-scale 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. We're running at well over 100 subscribers now - and you're all very welcome :-)

LATEST NEWS - concerts and facebook

Three cracking concerts already this autumn.

Our first, for the Salvation Army, was remarkable if only for the woman who interrupted our concert to ask where to get guitar lessons!

Our second, at Hayling Island Amateur Dramatic Society's HQ at the Station Theatre was simply the most fun concert we've ever had.
Read a review of it here.

Our third was the penultimate concert at the Farlington Music Festival, and it's great to be able to puff ourselves up a bit and report that we managed the largest audience of the 10 concerts they put on.

We've done a lot of work on our Facebook pages too - no membership needed to see our photos and hear our soundclips. If you are a member, why not join our Fanbase there too, for a slightly more interactive experience - chat on our Wall and comment on our photos. Wow - that was weird - I just checked out the link to make sure I've pasted it here OK, and another Fan has joined!

WHAT'S COMING UP? - 2 concerts in November

Check your diaries, and pencil us in!
We're playing at All Saints Catherington this Saturday, Nov 1st - the coincidentally titled All Saints Day - ticket and travel details are on our website.
And after that we're across to Wickham on Thursday Nov 20th. We play for The Rowans Hospice every year, and for the past two years they've sold out, so now we have a bigger venue. Come and help us raise more than £1000 for the Hospice.
If you've not been to one of our concerts yet, you aren't allowed to leave until you've laughed out loud at least once, and probably clapped at the wrong moment too - it's gloriously informal and not at all the "I can hear a pin drop" atmosphere that normally makes guitar audiences sit with clenched buttocks unable to relax!

REPERTOIRE - a cracking programme

Goodness me - more pieces than we know what to do with, so you can be sure we'll play all the audience favourites from now on! Come and discover which piece always gets a sigh at the end!

WEBSITE NEWS - music for sale

Last newsletter we reported that the ensemble music shop at hago.org.uk was open for business, and since then we've been busy wrapping music and sending it all over the UK and abroad too. We're pretty adept now at all the odd rules and regulations for posting musical scores!
We've added another column to a couple of website pages - the home page and the news page just to make it easier to dip into what is quite a large site....

PUBLICITY - another £1000 for charity

Keep an eye out for us - we're working hard to get as much free publicity as possible - it's what makes our concerts sell out. But our biggest and most important way to reach new audiences is word of mouth. So put the word around for us and we'll be eternally grateful, embarrassingly obsequious, but very happy.
It's our mission to change people's perception of classical guitar and it's our reward to meet so many people at our concerts who tell us they had no idea what a guitar orchestra can sound like.