The front of Snape Maltings
Celebration at Snape Maltings, and an Irish Quiz, Brome, Suffolk - 13th March 2024
Fred and the Hartismere Concert Band are involved in the annual "Celebration" at Snape Maltings - where a selection of Suffolk schools do some sort of performance. Whilst several are the regular "junior school choir", one of the better ones sings musical rounds with added recorders. Hartismere's performance is by far the most impressive, with a good performance from the band and possibly an even-more impressive apearance from a jazz/fusion quartet, with strong hints of the art band Black Country, New Roads. Fred's less than impressed though at the end where there's an ensemble moment with all schools together on stage singing and signing the finale number. After that, Nosher's on a bike ride which ends up going through Burgate, then we're at an Irish-themed quiz at Brome Village Hall, which we - perhaps unsurprisingly - actually win.
next album: A Cricket Quiz, and a Postcard from Colchester, Essex - 25th March 2024
previous album: Felixstowe in the Rain, Suffolk - 10th March 2024
Out in the marshes behind the Maltings
Snape maltings in the dusk
Barbara Hepworth's The Family of Man
Harry has posh chicken nuggets in the Plough and Sail
A primary school finishes its singing
Hartismere's Concert Band on stage at Snape
Fred in the flute section on the back row
The Hartismere quartet finish their impressive set
Morgan chats to one of the event's MCs
The guest conductor/composer takes a bow
The massed schools for Celebration 2024
The house band does its thing
Crowds filter out after the concert
The nave of St. Mary of Pity, Burgate
A cross in an alcove
A memorial made in Flanders out of shell cases
Stained glass in the nave window
A look back down the nave of St. Mary of Pity
Incredibly ornate roof-truss supports
The Mediaeval church of St. Mary of Pity
Fred and Harry play Exploding Kittens
Harry's had enough already
At the bar of Brome Village Hall
The cat's pyjamas - quite literally
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The front of Snape Maltings
The front of Snape Maltings
Out in the marshes behind the Maltings
Snape maltings in the dusk
Barbara Hepworth's The Family of Man
Harry has posh chicken nuggets in the Plough and Sail
A primary school finishes its singing
Hartismere's Concert Band on stage at Snape
Fred in the flute section on the back row
The Hartismere quartet finish their impressive set
Morgan chats to one of the event's MCs
The guest conductor/composer takes a bow
The massed schools for Celebration 2024
The house band does its thing
Crowds filter out after the concert
The nave of St. Mary of Pity, Burgate
A cross in an alcove
A memorial made in Flanders out of shell cases
Stained glass in the nave window
A look back down the nave of St. Mary of Pity
Incredibly ornate roof-truss supports
The Mediaeval church of St. Mary of Pity
Fred and Harry play Exploding Kittens
Harry's had enough already
At the bar of Brome Village Hall
The cat's pyjamas - quite literally