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The Friends of Guernsey Music Centre present an evening of jazz and popular classics performed by the Training Jazz Orchestra directed by Katie Gough and the Youth Jazz Orchestra directed by Liz Green.

The Training Jazz Orchestra will start the evening and will be performing popular classics including ‘Shake Rattle and Roll’ by Bill Haley and the Comets, ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ by Journey and ‘You Belong With Me’ by Taylor Swift.

This will be followed by the debut performance of the ‘Coco’ electric string quartet, who will be performing some well-known classics.

The evening will also include a performance by the Friends of Guernsey Music Centre choir, the Wright Notes who will be performing Antonio Carlos Jobim’s ‘Girl from Ipanema’, along with Toto’s ‘Africa’ and ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ by Queen.

The Youth Jazz Orchestra will conclude the evening’s entertainment with music including the Nina Simone classic ‘Feeling Good’, ‘The Bare Necessities’ from the film The Jungle Book and the jazz standard ‘Mas Que Nada’.

Ticket price includes a light supper

Doors: 7pm | Show: 7.30pm – approx 10pm

Conductor Alan Gough

A Special Treat for all the family, featuring many of your favourite Children’s Movie theme tunes.

A celebration of cinema’s best-known melodies that children love to hear again and again.

Featured in the programme are signature tunes and songs from some of Disney’s Classic Children’s Films, including:

Encanto, The Wizard of Oz, Jurassic World, Pirates of The Caribbean, and of course FROZEN.

Hits from Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King and Pocahontas are all included in a packed one-hour show guaranteed to thrill.

Why not get your children to dress up as their favourite Disney Character or Super Hero. It all adds to the fun!

If you have a pet Dragon, bring that along too as we have music to help you train it!

Doors 5pm | Show 5.30pm

Programme:

Weber – Oberon Overture

Max Bruch – Violin concerto No.1 in G minor, Op. 26

Antonín Dvořák – symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70, B. 141

For the first concert of 2022, the Guernsey Symphony Orchestra are delighted to welcome back guest conductor Colin Metters, until recently Head of Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music.To begin this exiting programme, the GSO will enter the world of fairies and knights with Weber’s Overture to Oberon.We then welcome the incredible David le Page back to play Bruch’s first violin concerto. Surely one of the most popular concertos in the repertoire, David’s unique sense of creativity will doubtless infuse the concerto with something special. To conclude the concert, the GSO will perform Dvorak’s seventh symphony, showcasing a dark and vehement side of Dvořák not otherwise seen. While the Seventh Symphony was Dvorak’s first to truly embrace and confidently express his Czech voice, Dvořák himself wrote that he hoped “this Czech music will stir the world”.

Concert kindly sponsored by Julius Baer

Doors: 7.30pm | Show 8pm