At the Amey Theatre this evening, groups from the Abingdon Music Centre came together to perform for each other and for friends and family. The evening began with the Community Orchestra – an orchestra for adult players of orchestral instruments at any level.

There followed child and then adult guitar groups, child and then adult recorder groups, an adult Ukelele Group. Then various singing groups and choirs: Singing for Pleasure, The Afternoon Ladies’ Choir, The Morning Ladies’ Choir (shown above), and The huge Abingdon Community Choir.

The evening ended with many of the performers getting on stage together to perform and sing “Can You Feel The Love Tonight.”

The Abingdon Music Centre is a charity. They run Baby and Pre School groups. They have groups with mainly retired people. They have groups for school children and adults. It is Music for Everybody.

Jenny is leaving the area and has done a wonderful job in running the Folk at the Unicorn concerts for the last two and a half years. Jenny’s last offering to the ‘lovely people of Abingdon’ was the young duo of Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar, winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards: Horizon Award.

Mike, who does the lights, will be taking over as he thinks the concerts have been so good and wants to see them carrying on.