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Thread #107492   Message #2250400
Posted By: Dave Roberts
01-Feb-08 - 09:57 AM
Thread Name: Music in Middlewich
Subject: RE: Music in Middlewich
Yes,

Sorry Sandbach Folkie. I meant the British Legion.

Still, feel free to go to the Civic Hall too, if you want. There might be an aerobics class or something on.

The Roberts & Webb charity is Roberts & Webb, in that circumstances dictate that we have to do this stuff for a living now.

(voices off shouting 'you'll starve!')

But I have to say that the Mayor's Charity (i.e. the Macmillan Cancer Unit at Leighton) is extremely worthwhile.

We've all been fundraising for the cause since last March when Live & Local put on a weekend at the Boar's Head with artists including Pete Morton and...Roberts & Webb.

And more recently Ian Norbury and I, who run the Boar's Head Quiz on Sundays, got together with Mike Parsons (ex Salt Town Poet and current Mayor Of Congleton) to put on a series of quizzes in Middlewich, Congleton, Sandbach and Alsager in aid of Macmillan.

And very successful they've been.

So you'll see why I'm a bit ambivalent about promoting our R&W thing at the BH over the Macmillan Concert. If I wasn't at the BH I'd be there myself, obviously.

The only thing I will say is that we had the date before anyone else.

I believe too, bringing all the various Middlewich strands together, that Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival are supplying some of the artists for the concert at the RBL.

So, all in all, it's a nice story of everyone working together for a good cause.