A Spring Concert performed by The Lowry Girls, with solos performed by music pupils of Leanne Farley.

We are very much looking forward to the return to Holy Trinity, Gosport, of The Lowry Girls, directed by Angie Jones. They will be singing at Holy Trinity on Sunday 1st March starting at 3.30pm. They are bringing us a delightful programme of music, including a West End Medley, traditional songs from Scotland and Wales, and young soloists on flute and piano.

Please join us to welcome back the Lowry Girls and their guests to celebrate an hour of joyful music - in good company. Free entrance with retiring collection; your donations will help us to maintain our historic organ - thank you! Tea and cakes to follow.

Programme

I am the Song
Music and words by Boo Hewerdine*

We Shall Overcome Medley
Credited to Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) *

Flute Solo – Tina Wang
Rondo (3rd Movement) from Concerto in G major - Mozart

West End Medley
Oliver!

• I'd Do Anything

• Where is Love?

Words and Music by Lionel Bart arr. by Barrie Carson Turner

Mamma Mia Medley

• I Have a Dream

• Mamma Mia

Abba Songs arranged by Mac Huff

Piano Solo – Evie Wu
The Watermill - Esther Kahn

Sing me a Song Medley
Traditional Scottish Melodies
Words by R L Stevenson, Sir Hugh Robertson, Francis McPeake*

Flute Solo - Hannah Groom
Cantabile and Allegro from Sonata in C - Telemann

St. David's Day Tribute

• Song of a Country Girl
  Words by John Emlyn Edwards
  Arranged by Douglas Coombes

• David of the White Rock
  Words by John Oxenford
  Arranged by Douglas Coombes

• All Through the Night
  Words by Sir Harold Boulton
  Music traditional Welsh
  Arranged by Catherine Beddison

Rise Up
Music and lyrics by Karine Polwart*

Biographies

Angie Jones, MD of The Lowry Girls, worked as a teacher in Hampshire between 1979 and 2020, having moved from Worcestershire, where she taught in Special and Secondary schools. Her formal music journey started, aged 50, with recorder lessons from Christopher Burgess, the then M.D of the Hampshire Recorder Sinfonia. She now plays in that orchestra, the Upham Recorder Orchestra and the Wessex Society of Recorder Players.

Angie participates in the Sing for Pleasure Conductor Training programme, attending weekend training courses, and also Summer Schools at Cambridge and Keele Universities. The Lowry Girls, a choir for upper voices, was born after one memorable week at Keele.

Carolyn Wilkinson, Lowry Girls’ Accompanist, has played the piano since the age of nine and went on to study Music to Diploma level at King Alfred’s College, Winchester. During her studies she developed a love of performance and recital work and she still enjoys performing today - often with her former college duet partner.

She began her career teaching children’s piano lessons before moving into primary education, where she has taught for many years and served as an enthusiastic and dedicated music lead. As an accompanist, Carolyn has worked with both children’s and adult choirs and has directed several ensembles. Passionate about inspiring young people through singing and music, she continues to lead a thriving school choir and is currently the headteacher of a local primary school.

Leanne Farley, Guest Music Teacher, has had a long and successful musical career, teaching in schools locally and further afield.

She also runs a busy private teaching practice at home, offering flute, clarinet, piano, recorder, theory and aural lessons to all ages and abilities. She prepares students for ABRSM, MTB, GCSE and A’ level exam performances and students have been successful in gaining music scholarships at local independent schools. In 2016, Leanne qualified as a member of the ABRSM examining panel and now enjoys examining tours around the UK three times a year as well as being a digital performance grade examiner at home.