An Afternoon of Music, Song and Dance

Garboldisham Village Hall, Sunday 17th November 2024

EATMT stepped into Norfolk for our fourth Sunday Afternoon of Music, Song and Dance and the village of Garboldisham. One again, co-ordinated by volunteer Jan Robinson and MCd by Shirley Harry, we welcomed around 100 visitors to this Sunday afternoon event.

Jan Robinson, Event Co-ordinator
Shirley Harry, MC
Trustee, Eammon Andrews, thanks everyone for supporting the event

Around 1/3rd of the audience joined us for the first time – 3 of whom bravely took to the floor for a song! They were all warmly welcomed into the fold – some had travelled considerable distance for which we are extremely grateful and a good number signed up to receive more information about the Trust.

Christine sings a comic song
Julian Flood sings (accompanied by his guitar)
Ingrid sings a Sandy Denny song

We were joined by our soon-to-be Operations Manager, Jannine Parry and some of her family where she was introduced to the audience.

Peter Everson sings (watched on by Jannine Parry)
Dimity and David Gosling sing
Megan Wisdom sings, accompanied by Mossy Christian

One Row Records run by Mossy Christian and Megan Wisdom set up a stall with CDs and Books (including Megan’s new book Handmade Music – Suffolk Voices from the John Howson Collection). Linda and Rita once again ably ran the kitchen – where hot beverages, cakes and biscuits were offered. Thank you ladies! We ran a successful raffle and people gave generously upon arrival – all of this goes back into the Trust coffers and enables us to put on more events. Thanks too go to Michael Czarnobaj, Doreen West and Andy Bull who arrived early to help set up and clear away.

Follow this link for a short video of our stepdancing finale for the afternoon: https://youtu.be/EvwM3HUhflE

Neil and Sandie Sykes
The Shelfandger Singers
Tracey Wisdom
Barry and Monica Mobbs with musicians Ron and Pam Ross
Eammon Andrews Broom Dances accompanied by wife, Judy on melodeon
Broom Dancing
A rather nifty Jig Doll with its maker – the top hat rather cleverly can be removed whilst dancing!
Janet, Sue and Pam
Janet and Pam
Doreen West Stepdances to musicians Ron & Pam Ross, Sue Lawrence & Tracey Wisdom
David Cotter steps
then sings!
Community of musicians and steppers bring the first half to an end
Monica and Barry Mobbs with a comic song
Angela Collins sings
Tracey Wisdom

Today’s event was the first of two planned events for Garboldisham, Norfolk, this financial year and we are extremely grateful to the Norfolk Community Foundation and the Sheila Ann Day Fund for enabling this event to go ahead. It means all donations made on the day go straight back into the Trust. It is the 5th event of the financial year and the final event of 2024. As well as events, we run a Friends’ Membership scheme, we have a bank of instruments which we hire out across the country, we run projects and we publish books – the latest of which is due out very shortly – a 2nd edition of the most popular EATMT publication Blyth Voices.

Our volunteers are invaluable and we are as ever extremely grateful to them as well as to those who turned up and supported the event. See you at the next one!

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