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Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra Update – April 2017
On Saturday 28th April the Orchestra held its 36th AGM at Kingcase Church Hall to review the past year’s activities and look forward to the future.
The Orchestra’s Initial Visit to Japan!
Wallace Galbraith, AFO Director, spent a highly successful 5 days in Tokyo meeting with many enthusiastic contacts to begin forming the shape of the Orchestra’s exciting Concert Tour to Japan in 2019.
Spanish Themed Supper
The orchestra will hold a Spanish Themed Supper on Saturday 28th April 2018 7.30pm in Troon Old Parish Church Hall.
Burns Night in London
A group of senior players from the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra (AFO) were privileged to have been invited down to Westminster last week to entertain at the House of Commons Burns Supper, organised by local MP, Dr Philippa Whitford, and also to perform at the Scotland Office Burns Supper, hosted by Scottish Secretary David Mundell, thanks to local MP, Bill Grant.
Doug and Dave Leg Wax Fundrasier
Douglas Clark and David Moore are having their legs waxed during the rehearsal to help raise funds towards the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra tour to Catalonia in 2018.
Catalonia Summer 2018
The Orchestra has been invited by the Conservatori de Sant Cugat as part of a future youth exchange programme to visit Catalonia in Spain and to give a series of performances in Barcelona and throughout the region in July 2018.
House of Commons
A small group of the orchestra go down to Westminster next Tuesday 23rd Jan to play for the Scottish Parliamentary Group Burns Supper at the House of Commons.
Ariccia Invite
The Prestwick Town Twinning Association are organising a trip to Ariccia this year 3rd-7th April 2018 and are looking for musicians to join the group.
Rising Sun Tour 2019
Our next international tour will be to Japan in July 2019 – this promises to be one of the most exciting tours, both culturally and musically, that the Orchestra has ever undertaken!
Happy New Year!
Happy new year from everyone in the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra, we hope you all had a great night of celebrations.
Bag Packing
Another annual fundraising event for the orchestra is bag packing. This year we had groups at both Morrisons and Tesco in Ayr on two separate days over the festive period.
Merry Christmas
A huge Merry Christmas from all of the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra to all of you.
AFO Christmas Concert 2017
Last night was another extremely successful AFO Christmas concert The night featured many of our favourite tunes. As it was our annual Christmas concert we did also play our favourite Christmas arrangements of Jingle Bells and our Christmas Medley arranged by our musical director David Moore. We also had performances from some of the orchestra’s resident Scottish dancers, and as always we had our Piper begin and end both halves of our concert, this was a debut for our new piper. The evening also included a raffle, ice cream, drinks and of course of merchandise table which featured our new 2018 calendar. At the Christmas concert in Ayr Town Hall we presented the money raised from the Spirit of Hope concert to the renal cancer research charity for £3250. Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible. The orchestra also played the song Spirit of Hope composed by Alistair McCulloch. Thanks to all that came along, I hope you enjoyed a fantastic night of music....
Christmas Fayre 2017
Christmas comes to Ayr Town Hall!! This is the Orchestra’s main fund raising event of the year and to make it a success every player, family and friends has been involved donating items for all the stalls and helping wherever possible to help the Town Hall sparkle!
Two’s Company Concert
Always a great night of music making with the young voices of Heathfield and Glenburn Choirs joining the Orchestra and Band in our Finale of the Skye Boat Song!
Spirit of Hope Concert
Spirit of Hope is a charity concert and ceilidh with the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra, Coila Ceilidh Band, The MacDonald Brothers and Arlene Rolph, raising funds for Renal Cancer.
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