Something to support, given the double DGASS connection …

“With a gap in the early evening of the Outwith programme on Friday 6 September, three sopranos and a master of music present a wide-ranging programme, with an element of fun as they have only three weeks to prepare!

“Frances McCafferty will be joined by Linda Milne, known for her Gilbert and Sullivan performances, and a complete unknown, MaryAnn Rennie. All three will be ably accompanied by Matthew Beetschen.”

The Abbey Church of Dunfermline 7.00pm Friday 6 September: doors open at 6.30pm; the concert lasts an hour. Free entry – donations for church funds

Click the image for a PDF poster.

Paul Gudgin, one of our Dunfermline friends, invites you to two Come and Sing events that he is involved with.

Saturday 1 June, Stockbridge Parish Church
Haydn Nelson Mass with Jubilo

Sunday 18 August
Come and Sing Evensong at the Robin Chapel
Wesley – “Lead me Lord”, Stanford in B flat and Haydn – “The heavens are telling”.

The fliers with details are linked to the images.

Our friends at Opera Caledonia invite us to an evening of romantic operatic classics and song, complemented by fine wine and chocolates, at 7.30pm–9.00pm on Wednesday 14 February, at the Institut français d’Écosse, Edinburgh. Featuring Judith Howarth, soprano, with Derek Clark at the piano.

Limited tickets at £15 available via Eventbrite.

Anne Dolbear, our never-flagging Treasurer, invites us to enjoy Dalgety Players’ latest panto production at Dalgety Parish Church.

The bean first gets growing on Tuesday 23 January and the show runs until Saturday 27 January,  with Tuesday-Friday evening performances at 7.15pm, and Saturday performances at 11.00am and 2.15pm.

Tickets at £10 for adults and £7 for concessions (children under 16, students in full-time education, senior citizens) are available at www.dalgetyplayers.org.uk/boxoffice.

Ellen invites us all to Kirkcaldy Orchestral Society’s first concert of the season at 7.30pm on Tuesday 3 October in the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy. Their programme “offers a pleasant variety of orchestral music which includes the HMS Pinafore Overture, Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, ‘The Baptism of Adam Smith’, a composition commissioned from the DGASS orchestra oboe player, John Gourlay, ‘By the Sleepy Lagoon’ (the ‘Desert Island Discs’ theme), Handel’s Water Music, and the Gold and Silver Waltz (Lehar). Details by clicking the image.

Our President, Frances McCafferty, will be giving a short concert in Dunfermline Abbey next Sunday, 3 September, at 12 noon. The programme will last around 45 minutes and has birds as its theme. Frances will be accompanied by Matthew Beetschen, the Abbey Organist.

Teas and coffees are available from about 11.30am and can be taken into the pews for the concert. Entry is free and ticketless and the Abbey disabled ramp is finally open, so access is available for all. Church-goers for whom 12n would otherwise be too early are invited to attend the Abbey service at 10.30am, by way of a change!