PROM COAST SINGERS & BEC’S BONNY BONERS

2pm SUNDAY 7 AUGUST 2011

FOSTER WAR MEMORIAL ARTS CENTRE

Tickets: Adults: $10.00 . Concession $7.00

CONCERT PROGRAM

Prom Coast Singers
Island Songs  (Stephen Leek)
Monkey & Turtle
Trade Winds
Morning Tide

Bec’s Bonny Boners
Kothbiro (Mbarek Achieng and Ayub Ogada)
Western Highway (Gerry O’Beirne)
Dancing with Daisies (Rebecca Bone)
Scarlett Tide (Elvis Costello and T-Bone Burnett)
Molly Green / The Ballad of Tommy Foster (Sara Storer)
Benjamin Bowmaneer (Traditional)
Blow the Winds (Traditional)
The Answer (Sarah McLaughlin)
Hina Na Ho (Celebrations) (Susan Aglukark) 

Prom Coast Singers
Traditional Songs  (Arranged by John Rutter)
Down by the Sally Garden
The Girl I Left Behind Me
O Waly Waly
The British Grenadiers
Golden Slumbers
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron

Afternoon Tea

PROM COAST SINGERS
Director: Paddy Broberg
Fran Allott,  Tania Bird,  Arie Bos,  Ruth Carson,  Neil Chandler,  Edwin Coad,  Pamela Coad,  Jenny Davies,  Geoff Davey,  Lorraine Froiland,  Brian Hoskins,  Andrew Jamieson,  Lyn Jamieson,  Peter McAlpine,  Dianne Paragreen, Jennifer Paragreen, Barbara Partridge, Anne Roussac-Hoyne, Dick Straw,  Bronwyn Wakely,  Jon Wathen,  Ros Wathen,  Fleur Wheeler,  Shirley Wilson,  Kate Woodward,  Marilynne Zanella.

BEC’S BONNY BONERS
Director: Rebecca Bone
Yvonne Austin,  Taliya Barker,  Marcella Brennan,  Ruth Brook,  Jenny Cocksedge,  Maureen Collins,  Jack Croft,  Kate Facey,  Tracy Fraser,  Deborah Harris,  Linda McMullan,  Alicia Miller,  Joanne Moloney, Amber Rerdon

Prom Coast Singers’ rehearsals are held every Tuesday evening at 7:30pm in the Anglican Church Hall, Station Road, Foster.

The Prom Coast Singers welcome back  every single one of our past members and also need some new faces to be involved in singing in the SING SOUTH GIPPSLAND! choral festival.

We really need as many singers as we can muster, particularly some more sopranos and tenors – please spread the word amongst your friends and acquaintances, and invite them to come along and join one of the most friendly and inclusive groups in the South Gippsland community.

Sadly we will be without a few of our most committed members of the past, who, mostly for health reasons, have reluctantly decided to retire.  In particular, we will not have the truly wonderful team of Shirley Wilson and Verna Anderson, who have been an amazing duo, taking full responsibility for collecting and organising our money from week to week,  keeping our records and, with the help of other wonderful members, opening and setting up the Hall for each rehearsal.  We thank them both so much, and wish them all the very best, and we look forward to seeing them not only at our performances, but also welcoming them back to sing with us any time they feel up to it.

To join in the Prom Coast Singers, or for further details, contact:
Andrew Jamieson via email: acjammo @ ozemail.com.au or 5683 2683
OR
Paddy Broberg via email:  paddybroberg @ internode.on.net or 5682 2000

A fee, of $3.00 per evening for each singer, covers the cost of purchasing music, hall hire etc.

Congratulations to Larry Hills and the Bass Coast Chorale on their performance of the Miners’ Requiem in Wonthaggi on 19 & 20 June 2010 as part of Wonthaggi’s Centenary celebrations.

Several current and past members of the Prom Coast Singers joined with the Bass Coast Chorale to perform the Miners’ Requiem composed by Larry Hills.

The Miners’ Requiem was reprised and recorded
2:00pm Sunday 27 March 2011
Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre

A MESSAGE FROM LARRY HILLS

I’ve written the Miners’ Requiem specifically for the Wonthaggi Centenary celebrations. It is being performed by the Bass Coast Chorale accompanied by a full orchestra. It is a beautiful and moving work. There are only two performances: Saturday, 19 June at 8pm and Sunday, 20 June at 2pm. The performance will be of great significance to the citizens of the Wonthaggi area, but also of significance to other parts of the world due to recent mining tragedies in the US and in China.

15 February 1937, the day 20-Shaft blew up, was the blackest day in the history of Wonthaggi. The whole town rallied, united in their anguish, to save thirteen miners trapped behind thousands of tons of fallen rock, engulfed in plumes of black smoke and deadly gasses. The valiant attempt to rescue the miners captured the attention of a whole nation.

As we celebrate our centenary, we remember those men who lost their lives that day and all miners over 100 years who also lost their lives in the State Coal Mine at Wonthaggi.
Requiem  (Rest in Peace)