Yeoman’s Fund for the Arts

Calling all singers!

by juno October 13, 2010

Posted for Peggy Johnson:
We’re cranking up again, with a mix of traditional Christmas music and a larger than ever commission based on a Wassail tune and text:
Sandwich Singers will start rehearsals the first Saturday after the Fair,
October 16th
9:00 a.m.
Baptist Meeting House, Center Sandwich.
Concert dates are December 15 & 19 (Wednesday and Sunday, not the usual [...]

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Yeoman’s Fund and Advice to the Players brighten the Sandwich Fair

by juno October 11, 2010

Our friends from the Yeoman’s Fund, with the YEOMAN himself, strode through the parade on Sunday:

Later that day, the thespians of Advice to the Players presented a unique and personal production of Pyramus and Thisby:Alex Butcher-Nesbitt, fetching as Thisby

Mark Woollett, dying, dying, dying…

Perhaps you forgot Shakespeare's predilection for UFOs and aliens

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Sandwich Singers photos!

by juno December 7, 2009

Posted for Sandwich Singers (click on photos to view larger):
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David MacLean, Allan DiBiase, Heather Hastings, Colin MacIver, Jonathan Santore, Peggy Johnson, and Ron Wold. Photo by Bradley Ball.

DiBiase and Johnson are co-directors of Sandwich Singers, which will premiere “Wie Schön Leuchtet” collaborative composition by McLean, Hastings, MacIver, Noel Groleau (not pictured) and Santore, [...]

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Sandwich Singers concerts Sunday, December 13 & Wednesday, December 16

by juno December 2, 2009

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Sandwich Singers will present two concerts of traditional Christmas music, Sunday, December 13 at the Methodist Meeting House in Center Sandwich, and Wednesday, December 16 at the Tamworth Congregational church. Both concerts are at 7:30.
A new treatment of an old hymn tune, Wie Schön Leuchtet (How Brightly Shines) for Horn, Chorus, [...]

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Congratulations to Jonathan Santore!

by juno October 9, 2009

Teacher and composer Jonathan Santore has been named as one of the NH State Council on the Arts 2010 Invididual Artist Fell0ws. If you’ve attended Sandwich Singers’ holiday concerts in Sandwich or Tamworth the last couple of years, you have heard compositions by Santore and his PSU students, commissioned by the Yeoman’s Fund and premiered [...]

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Pictures at another exhibition (Michael Doyle’s students)

by juno September 15, 2009

With permission we reproduce here Brad Ball’s reflections on a recent exhibit in Tamworth, and his wonderful photographs:
I had the chance to stop by a wonderful exhibit by local artists that showcased their views of nature around us. It was the wind-up of a whirlwind week for all.

Peggy Johnson

Peggy Johnson helped facilitate the original gathering: [...]

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