Evening of Music at Warwick Castle
Warwickshire County Council’s Music Hub is organising an evening of music at Warwick Castle on Friday 27 January to raise money for the Warwickshire Tiffin Club for looked-after children.
The event, which will be held in the splendour of Warwick Castle’s Great Hall, will be taking place between 6:30 and 8pm and feature a variety of music performed by young people from various ensembles around the county including:
County Girls’ Choir – An open access choir that meets weekly during term time with members from all over the county. The Choir perform extensively and have been highly praised both in the Choir of the Year Competition and, more recently, at the National Festival of Music for Youth. They have also performed at the Birmingham Hippodrome in the autumn performance of ‘The Nutcracker’.
'Gutted!' – County Viol Consort – ‘Gutted’ specialise in bringing to life the vibrant music of the renaissance and were recently honoured with a National Partnership Award following their participation in Music for Youth. As part of this prestigious award, they have the opportunity to make a recording in 2017 with professional early music group Fretwork.
County Waits – played in a variety of venues across Warwickshire including Middleton Hall, Warwick Hall and the Lord Leycester Hospital. Further afield they has given performances at Canons Ashby (National Trust) and Lichfield Guildhouse, and the Early Music Exhibition at Greenwich. The instrumental range includes violins, viols, recorders, cornetts, sackbuts, crumhorns, cornamuses, shawms, percussion, harp, rebec and voice.
In addition to this, there will be a raffle on the night with some fantastic prizes to be won, such as vintage wine, a Football signed by players from Birmingham City football Club and an Archaeology Warwickshire Experience Day, amongst other things.
All funds from the night will go towards the running of the Warwickshire Tiffin Club, which acts as a Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) for Warwickshire’s Looked After Children: funding life-enhancing opportunities, supporting their goals, igniting their dreams and giving them the best start into adult life and work.
Tickets for this fantastic event are £20. Payment can be made by cheque, made payable to 'Warwickshire Corporate Parents' or by cash, sent to Krishna Shindroja, Personal Assistant to Cllr Izzi Seccombe at Warwickshire County Council, Shire Hall, Warwick, CV34 4RL. Further enquiries can be made by emailing: krishnashindroja@warwickshire.gov.uk