The Music Appreciation Group

Leader:  Mike Stow - musicapp@ashbyu3a.co.uk - 01530 469152

3rd July

Only three people were available this month to attend the meeting but we still had a good variety of music, and we were back at Nev's house.

Heather started proceedings with the Glen Miller Band performing "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" and then Yogi slowed things down somewhat with Enya singing "How Can I Keep From Singing". Nev's first choice was a seasonal song which didn't reflect the weather outside. It was, of course, "Summertime" sung by Peggy Lee.

Heather's second choice was North Sea Gas, a Scottish folk group playing a medley of tunes "Crammond Island/The Big Canoe/The Cowshed". Yogi then chose James Galway and Phil Coulter with "Thousands Are Sailing". Nev stuck to his seasonal choice with Jimmy Buckley playing a rockabilly version of the Eddie Cochran hit "Summertime Blues".

Heather then continued proceedings with the James Last Orchestra playing "Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana". Yogi's next choice was the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March No 4" followed by an unnamed band playing the Irish Jig "The Wind that Shakes the Bushes". Nev's third choice was Green Carnation, a Norwegian group, playing the Jim Croce song "Time in a Bottle".

Heather's last choice was another Glen Miller number "Girl from Kalamazoo". Yogi finished with the Choir of New College Oxford singing Tavener's "The Lamb" and Nev wound up proceedings with Josh Lee Turner playing a remarkable version of The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" on solo guitar.