Wings and Wheels, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, May 11th

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Comes to Wings and Wheels
Sunday May 11th at Henham Park

Halesworth Lions are delighted to announce that this year’s Wings and Wheels at Henham Park will include The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. This is an absolutely marvellous sight and one not to be missed.

This is the 5th year Halesworth Lions have held this event, the fourth time running at the magnificent Henham Park and every year gets bigger and better. Along with the memorial flight we have the return of Team Guinot Wing Walkers.

Not only can you watch their acrobatic display, but you can get up close and personal and talk to the wing walkers and pilots. For the first time there will be main ring entertainment with the Stannage Motorcycle Stunt Team and Razz the Clown performing throughout the day.

There are already over fifty light aircraft booked to fly in and land, with the runway turned 90 degrees more planes can land and it also means we have even more room for the vast number of vintage and veteran vehicles.

Plus a huge array of trade stands, demonstrations, games and rides including hovercraft rides to join the train rides and model boat displays.

Not forgetting your chance to win a car courtesy of M.R.Kings and Son.

All this is happening on Sunday May 11th at Henham Park, nr Southwold just off the A12, from 10am entry costs only £5 for adults and £2.50 for under 14’s.

Come along for a great family day out, for more information and to book trade stands or enter your cherished vehicle visit www.wingsandwheels-online.co.uk

Halesworth Lions is a small local Lions Club and all monies raised from this event goes to charity, and as you can image an event of this size takes a lot of financial outlay so if your company would be interesting in being part of this ever growing event and becoming a sponsor please contact Lion Paul Martin on 01986 872710 or via the web site.

Beccles Battle of The Bands, 10 May 2008

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Beccles Battle of The Bands
10th May 2008

This Saturday sees the annual Beccles Battle of the Bands Competition.

Beccles battle of the Bands competition is now in it's 4th Year. Moore Music Roadshow has again agreed to Sponsor the increasingly popular music event. This year the competition is being held at Beccles Middle School with a licensed bar and hot food on this Saturday the 10th May 2008.

Radio Broadland will be the compares for the evening.

Not only does the competition enable bands to showcase their talent it, offers great publicity to the winning Bands, with past winners earning some fantastic gig bookings.

Event organiser Annette Tackley says ‘this year we are lucky to have some fantastic prizes for the winning bands so come along and support your favourites.

Prizes on offer are one days recording at Purple Studios worth over £200,Cash prizes and a chance to play an open-air gig to thousands during Beccles Carnival weekend’.

Last years runner-up One Member Short will be opening the event with a fantastic set.

Tickets are available on the door £3.00 per person.

So come along for a fantastic evening of music of various types and help your favourite band to win as one of the judges categories is crowd appeal other categories of judging criteria are Musical ability, General appearance, Vocal ability, Presentation, Overall performance, Lyrics and Sound

We have eight live bands performing for the title this year!

Further details from www.BecclesCarnival.co.uk

Beccles Carnival Tickets go on sale this Saturday

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Beccles Carnival Tickets go on sale this
Saturday May 10th 2008

Summer blues will be headlined by the Blues Brothers and the Bluesettes with a full 6 piece live band including Brass Section, over the last six years the boys have taken the music and moves of the Blues Brothers to fans all over Europe and the UK.

The list is too long to include all, but here’s some of the venues they’ve taken apart:

The London Palladium, The Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Her Majesty’s Theatre, military bases in Germany. Pontins, Haven, and the east coasts premier privately owned holiday centre, Vauxhall. Countless outdoor festivals, private and corporate functions.

Tickets for Summer Blues Saturday 19th July, will be available and on sale for the first time At Beccles Battle of the Bands being held at Beccles Middle School on Saturday 10th May.

It is advisable to get your tickets for these events early, as there is limited availability and are at the discounted price of £7.50. Will be £10.00 on night if not sold out!

Also tickets for Summer Ska two with Headline Act Neville Staples Formally of the Specials for Friday 18th July will be on sale.

For full details of Carnival weekend please visit the carnivals website www.BecclesCarnival.co.uk

Tickets may also be purchased from East Coast services in Beccles from Monday 12th May 2008 with more ticket outlets to be announced soon.

So near, yet so …, Magpies Hockey

Chairman's Chat

So near, yet so ….

So near, yet so far away! The draw against Fareham came back to haunt the Men’s 1sts in the EHL play-offs at Cannock last weekend when after an uncharacteristically bad game against the University of Durham and excellent wins over Harborne and Cardiff the team missed out on promotion to the national league on goal difference from Durham and Cardiff. Our cause was not helped by the disappointing performance of Kingston upon Hull who lost all their three games by wide margins thereby distorting the goal difference factor.

In the last three seasons the Men’s 1sts have twice finished in second spot in the East League and when we eventually win the title there are play-offs for this season only to accommodate the quite unnecessary changes in next season’s national league structure. I could say more but I won’t!

Despite the below par performance against Durham the team did the Club proud at Cannock with their subsequent wins over two other divisional champions. I take this opportunity to congratulate the squad under manager Robert Stimpson, coach Les Howlett, captain Leigh Sitch and vice-captain Richard Gill for their play and sporting demeanour over the weekend and throughout the season and I also pay tribute to the 50 or so supporters who came to cheer the team on over the three days.

Before I leave the subject of the Men’s 1sts it is worth pointing out the team played 27 league and play-off matches over the season losing just twice and failing to score just once. Quite a record and I’m pleased to show below the results and goal scorers – the latter led by Andy Hipwell with his astonishing record of 45 goals from the 26 games he played.

MEN’S 1st XI

Sep 29 Wapping A 1 – 5
A Hipwell (3), J Wheeler, R Ling

Oct 6 Broxbourne H 3 – 2
A Hipwell (2), N Toulson

Oct 13 Blueharts A 2 – 6
C Sitch (2), A Hipwell, N Toulson, C Barber, R Gill

Oct 20 Bishops Stortford H 5 – 2
A Hipwell (4), J Wheeler

Oct 27 Bedford Town A 2 – 4
A Hipwell (3), C Barber

Nov 3 Ipswich 2 H 4 – 1
R Ling, A Hipwell (2), R Gill

Nov 10 St Albans A 1 – 2
A Hipwell (2)

Nov 17 Havering H 3 – 0
R Gill (2), A Hipwell

Nov 24 Harpenden A 0 – 3
J Fanger, R Gill (2)

Dec 1 Dereham H 7 – 0
T Baynes (2), A Hipwell (3), N Toulson, J Wheeler

Dec 8 Cambridge City A 2 – 1
A Hipwell

Jan 19 Wapping H 4 – 2
J Fanger, A Hipwell, R Ling, T Baynes

Jan 26 Broxbourne A 2 – 7
R Ling, A Hipwell (2), J Fanger (2), R Gill, N Toulson

Feb 2 Blueharts H 5 – 3
R Ling, A Hipwell (3), J Wheeler

Feb 9 Bishops Stortford A 0 – 6
C Sitch (2), J Wheeler (2), T Baynes, A Hipwell

Feb 16 Bedford Town H 2 – 1
A Hipwell, J Wheeler

Feb 23 Ipswich 2 A 1 – 3
A Hipwell (2), R Gill

Mar 1 St Albans H 2 – 1
A Hipwell, J Wheeler

Mar 8 Havering A 0 – 3
A Hipwell (2), T Sumner

Mar 15 Harpenden H 7 – 0
J Fanger, A Hipwell (2), J Wheeler (2), R Gill (2)

Mar 29 Dereham A 1 – 4
T Baynes, C Barber, D Stasin, A Hipwell

Apr 5 Cambridge City H 1 – 0
T Baynes

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Apr 20 Fareham H 2 – 2
A Hipwell, C Sitch

Apr 27 Kingston upon Hull A 2 – 6
A Hipwell (3), N Toulson, C Barber (2)

May 3 Univ of Durham A 3 – 0

May 4 Harborne A 0 – 3
A Hipwell (3)

May 5 Cardiff & UWIC A 1 – 3
T Baynes (2), C Sitch

Good luck to our U18 Girls’ and Boys’ teams in the national finals this weekend at Canterbury HC. To have both teams in the finals is a remarkable record for the club and bodes well for the future. Good luck also to the Mixed team when they entertain Eastcote on Sunday (1.00pm) in the quarter-finals of the national trophy.

I hope as many members as possible will be able to attend the End of Season Bash at the club on Saturday 17 May (7.30pm). The event is open to all ages and entry is by ticket only - £10 (U13s £5) including food - obtainable from Mary Wright 0774 779 5481, Jose Tibbenham 07881 811259 or Mike Denham 01603 506925. Dancing will be to ginger tom & the GO cats.

My thanks go to James Smith, Kirstin Cumming, Daphne Beckett, Nick McAllen, David and Philip Cobbald and all other members involved with the preparation and running of last weekend’s very successful Magpies’ Tournament.

The Summer Mixed Hockey will once again be played on Monday nights (7.30pm) commencing on 12 May and continuing on 2 & 16 & 30 June and concluding on 14 July. Please bring a white and coloured shirt and £3 match fee!

Other dates for your diary please!

Sunday 22 June
Strawberry Luncheon
Shotford Hall, Harleston
(by kind permission of Jill and Roy Whipps)
Tickets (including a drink) are £10 (adults), £5 (children 7 to 12) with children under 7 free
are obtainable from Daphne Beckett (Tel: 07850 709297) or David Alexander (Tel: 01508 530237)

Sunday 13 July
In The Mood
(a trip down Memory Lane)
bring your picnic and relax
to the live music of TIMESCAPE
Bone Hill, Rouse’s Lane off Low Road, Starston
Gates open 3.30pm Music starts 4.30pm
Tickets £10 Adults, £5 U16s, U5s Free –
obtainable from Mike Denham 01603 506925
(event organised jointly by Harleston Lions, Scouts and Magpies HC)

With kind regards and best wishes to all members, supporters and friends of the Club.

Mike Denham (Chairman)
Tel: 01603 506925
E-mail: MDenham975@aol.com
7/5/08

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MUSIC ARENA ADDITIONS for Latitude, July 17th-20th 2008

17th - 20th July 2008

Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk
www.latitudefestival.co.uk

MUSIC ARENA ADDITIONS

UNCUT ARENA
*MARTHA WAINWRIGHT* *JULIAN COPE* *HOWLING BELLS* *SAM ISAAC*

OBELISK ARENA
*WHITE LIES* *FIELDS*

SUNRISE ARENA
*NIC DAWSON KELLY* *TALLULAH RENDALL*

MUSIC & FILM ARENA
*MICHAEL NYMAN*
*JONNY TRUNK presents VISION ON*
*THE LAST TUESDAY SOCIETY*
*DARRYL’S HARD LIQUOR & PORN FILM FESTIVAL*

ON THE LAKE
*RAFAEL AMARGO*
*RICCARDO MENEGHINI* *HELIX DANCE*

LITERARY ARENA
*PAUL TORDAY*
*PETE ATKIN* *MARK BORKOWSKI*

CABARET ARENA
*LENNY BEIGE*

COMEDY ARENA
*PHIL KAY*
*MICHAEL FABBRI*
MUSIC & FILM ARENA

As the first signs of summer begin to shine through, the line-up for this year’s Latitude Festival is starting to fill up. The very best actors, writers, directors, dancers, musicians and performers are flocking to the sunrise coast to be a part of this festival of inspiration and enchantment . With so much more to be announced across all of the arenas, this is really shaping up to be the arts and music event of the year!

The ground breaking Latitude Festival returns to the sunrise coast in Suffolk for its incredible third year. Nestled in the historic and beautiful surroundings of Henham Park Estate, Southwold, and taking place on 17th - 20th July, organisers Festival Republic are promising another truly spectacular event.

>> Click here for full line up on the Waveney Valley Blog <<

TICKET INFORMATION
Weekend tickets £130 plus booking fees.
Day tickets Fri, Sat, Sun £55 plus booking fee.
Weekend tickets prices include car parking and camping.
Days include car parking only.
C/Card line 0870 060 3775

Or online at www.festivalrepublic.com, www.seetickets.com,
For a full list of National and Regional outlets please visit www.latitudefestival.co.uk

120th Anniversary Concert, 17 May, Bungay Choral Society

BUNGAY CHORAL SOCIETY

120th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
St Mary’s Church, Bungay. Saturday, May 17th, 7.30pm

When the Rev. R Sneyd called a meeting about forming ‘a society for the cultivation of vocal and instrumental music in Bungay’ in October, 1888, the small talk would almost certainly have been about death. Jack the Ripper had just committed his 4th murder, while Edward Lear; the poet Matthew Arnold, and Louisa May Alcott, the famous author of ‘Little Women’ had recently died.

1888 seems to have been remarkable year altogether. Not only did Jack the Ripper commit his murders, and Van Gogh cut off his own ear, but Maurice Chevalier; Groucho Marx; Irving Berlin, TS Eliot, Raymond Chandler; Will Hay and Lawrence of Arabia - and The Bungay Choral Society- were all born in 1888. The Bungay Choral Society has outlived them all.

Little could Rev Sneyd have dreamed that 120 years later his ‘ambition’ would be regularly presenting at least three concerts a year, crowned by a magnificent performance on May 17th, 2008 in St Mary’s Church, Bungay, to celebrate its anniversary. Or that it would be performing Fauré’s ‘Requiem’ which, coincidentally, was being composed at exactly the time that the Bungay Choral Society was founded.

The anniversary concert will also feature John Rutter’s exuberant, flamboyant, and strongly contrasting, ‘Gloria’. There will also be shorter works by the two composers, and César Franck. As usual, the performance will be both videoed and recorded, with CDs and DVDs available after the concert.

Soloists will be Lucy Harvey (soprano), and Frazer Scott (baritone), both making a welcome return. It will be a very special night for Lucy Harvey as she comes from Bungay

The singers will be accompanied by a full orchestral ensemble; the well loved Tim Patient, who is the chairman of the Norfolk Society of Organists, and frequently plays with the Society, and the choir of Bungay Primary School.

Lucy Harvey has a choral scholarship with St. Chad’s Cathedral in Birmingham; and currently is working in association with the Birmingham-based choir Ex Cathedra and the Birmingham Conservatoire Choir. Her operatic roles include Barbarina and the Countess in Mozart’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ and Cis in Britten’s ‘Albert Herring’.

Frazer Scott has performed in many prestigious concert halls, such as the Adrian Boult Hall and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. He currently sings with the Birmingham Conservatoire, and has recently completed a highly successful tour of the Czech Republic

Harvey Rathbone, Honorary Conductor, has worked with many leading British choral groups such as the BBC Singers, The London Sinfonietta Chorus, London Voices, St. Paul's Cathedral Choir and Westminster Abbey Choir. He has an active involvement in The British & International Federation of Festivals for Music Dance & Speech, which he combines with teaching in East Anglia; adjudicating; giving workshops and master classes at festivals around the British Isles.

The Bungay Choral Society which at one time, even had its own orchestra, has, apart from the war years, performed continuously since its inception. Whilst performances have been both varied and spectacular, summed up by the title of one concert - ‘From Baroque to the Beatles,’ the Society specialises in magnificent religious works, with recent performances including Stainer’s ‘Crucifixion’; Beethoven’s ‘Mass in C ; John Rutters ’Requiem’ and Haydn’s ‘Creation’.

On October 11th 2008, the Society will be presenting Rossini’s ‘La Petite Messe Solennelle’ followed by Vaughan William’s “Fantasia on Christmas Carols’ on December 6th at Holy Trinity Church

The Rev’d Sneyd would have been proud!!

VENUE
St Mary’s Church, Bungay

DATE
Saturday, May 17th, 7.30pm

TICKETS
Adults £7.00, accompanied school children free

ON SALE
from Wightmans of Bungay or TEL: 01986 894132
or, if unsold, AT THE DOOR from 6.45pm

East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival attracts record entry! 11 May 2008

East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival
11 May 2008
at Oulton Broad

Over 600 people will take to the water on Sunday 11th May when the third East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival in aid of EACH returns to Oulton Broad at Nicholas Everitt Park in Lowestoft. Crews will race the thirty foot brightly painted Chinese dragon boats four at a time over a 200m course alongside Nicholas Everitt Park, watched by several thousand spectators.

The event has achieved a record entry this year with a sell-out 52 crews (18 more than last year) representing businesses and organisations from all over East Anglia. The Festival’s nominated charity, East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices will be benefiting from sponsorship raised by the crews.

Trophies will be presented by East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices to the winning crew, the second, third and fourth placed crews, the team that raises the most money for EACH, the top mixed crew and the ‘best dressed’ crew. The Malaysian Delights buffet restaurant is providing an added incentive for crews to raise as much money as possible for EACH as they have donated a special banquet for the crew that raises the most.

Credit - AK Event Photography

Simon Hempsall, Marketing Manager for EACH, comments: “The majority of EACH’s costs are not for specialist equipment but for delivering the specialist one-to-one nursing care and support so vital to local children and their families. Relying as much as we do on voluntary public support, we are delighted to be the official charity for the Dragon Boat Festival once again and hope to surpass the fantastic total of £16,000 raised in 2007”.

Carol Lester, Director of Festival organisers, Gable Events added “We are absolutely thrilled with the response to the Dragon Boat Festival this year. It is fantastic that so many people will be travelling from throughout East Anglia to take part in this unique event. We hope to raise even more money for EACH through the Festival this year and have received great support from the The Lowestoft Journal, Radio Broadland, Suffolk County Council Passenger Transport and Waveney District Council. We are sure that teams and Festival visitors alike will enjoy a superb day out on 11th May”.

Credit - AK Event Photography

As well as races every 10 minutes throughout the day between 9.30am and 5.30pm, there will be plenty of family entertainment on the bank including a climbing wall, rodeo bull, bungee run, human demolition and fun fair rides. In keeping with the Chinese history of dragon boat racing, the Wing Chun Kung Fu group will be performing a colourful lion dance at 12 noon and 2pm. Street entertainers, The Grand Theatre of Lemmings will be performing two shows during the day at 11am and 3pm with a walkabout session at 1pm.

You can also find out more about the work of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices and visit the roadshow and units of Radio Broadland, the Lowestoft Journal and Suffolk County Council Passenger Transport. The Everitt Park café will be serving a wide range of food and refreshments plus there will be a beer tent and on-site caterers bringing a hog roast, crepes, coffee, smoothies, wraps and toasted sandwiches and AK Event Photography will be capturing all the memorable moments on the day.

Entrance to the Festival is free to spectators and there is plenty of on-site ‘Pay and display’ parking at Nicholas Everitt Park.

WHAT'S ON (pdf)
VENUE MAP (pdf)
ENTRANTS (pdf)

For more information on the Dragon Boat Festival contact Gable Events on
01780 470718 or visit the Festival website at

www.dragonboatfestivals.co.uk/eastanglia

www.each.org.uk