hago in pictures - Open Rehearsals

Open Rehearsal June 2004

June 2004 saw hago's first Open Rehearsal - an evening of simple ensemble music - free of charge.
With our guests ranging from self-taught right up to Diploma-Level, we sightread for England! (who said guitarists can't sightread?)

Attendance wasn't as high as we hoped but we did recruit Kathryn, one of our finest players!

Some of the visitors and some of hago, pictured here in our old rehearsal venue at St John's Purbrook

Pausing for a liquid refreshment break!

Everyone received a pack of easy ensemble music that allowed our visitors to try out our four different sizes of guitar straight away!

Open Rehearsal 2006

We sent 90 flyers about our second Open Rehearsal, in 2006, to all the local guitar teachers.
We think our local teachers must be rather shy - only one replied!
One local guitar teaching who is anything but shy, of course, is our Musical Director, who is busy teaching private guitar lessons in the daytime.

Here we are in a refurbished St John's Church Hall and a shot showing some of the people who made it along

We began the evening with some simple ensemble pieces...

Each arrangement was for 3 (ordinary) guitars and followed up with a separate version with parts for alto, bass and contra.

There was much swapping of guitars in the frenzy of music that followed!

Of course, no hago event is complete without food and wine.
For long and convoluted reasons, our Musical Director began before everyone else. You see, he had made a couple of side-bets at our Chichester concert and having lost them both, he was forced to eat his hat, or rather our secretary's hat...

At the far end of the hall was a generous supply of food and drink that didn't need a mad hatter (or a mad hat-eater)....

Digital dexterity is key to everything in hago...
Caroline and Kate show how to hold a wine glass with either hand!