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BRIANTSPUDDLE AND AFFPUDDLE LOCAL CHOIR NEWS

NEWS Choral Services and Musical Events at St Peter’s Church,

Dorchester, during July
AFFPUDDLE AND TURNERSPUDDLE PARISH Our monthly service of Choral Eucharist takes place on Sunday 14 July at
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COUNCIL 10.30am. The music includes Parry’s ‘My sould there is a country’, the Lassus ‘Missa
Octavi Toni’ and Gibbons’s ‘Almighty and everlasting God’. All are welcome to
this free event and for refreshments afterwards.

On Saturday 20 July, between 12.30pm and 1.00pm, Graeme Thew will present a
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programme of music for marimba and other percussion instruments. This is a free
concert and we hope you will join us for a fantastic and fascinating half hour of
music in the midst of your busy Saturday!
Our monthly service of Choral Evensong takes place on Saturday 27 July at
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4.30pm. The music includes Parry’s ‘Never weather beaten sail’, Howells’s
‘Gloucester Service’, Reading’s ‘Preces & Responses’ and Balfour Gardiner’s ‘Te
lucis ante terminum’. All are very welcome to this free event, and we hope you
will join us for a glass of wine afterwards.
At this month’s meeting we were pleased to be able to co-opt Danny Hall onto Don’t forget that the internationally-renowned vocal ensemble, The Gesualdo Six,
the Parish Council. Danny has been resident in the Parish for over 50 years and are coming to St Peter’s to give a concert on Friday 6 September at 7pm. There
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farms land tat Rogers Hill. Danny hopes to be able to bring experience and are still some tickets available! You can visit the box office here: https://
knowledge of those that look after our countryside and produce food from the www.ticketsource.co.uk/st-peters-church-dorchester
land.
You can keep up with events via our website: www.dorchesteranglican.org.uk/
The Parish Council is still several members short and so anyone interested in bering musicatstpeters or by following us on social media: Facebook: https://
co-opted would be most welcome. Being a Parish Councillor is not a big time www.facebook.com/musicatstpetersdorch - X (Twitter): @musicatstpeter -
commitment (we meet just once a month) but it is an opportunity for you to Instagram @musicatstpetersdorch. If you would like to join our email list to receive
represent the views of local people. If you are interested please contact our Clerk
by emailing affpuddleandturnerspuddleclerk@outlook.com stating why you would news about our events, drop us a line at: musicatstpeters@mail.com. All of our
social media and contact details can be found at: linktr.ee/musicatstpeters
like to become a local Councillor.
At our meeting we considered our Auditors Annual Report and approved our
Annual Governance & Accountability Return for our accounts year ending 31
March 2024. This will be available for inspection on the council website from the Summer Serenade Concert - Dorset Chamber Choir
28 June until 8 August. Friday 12thJuly at 7:00 pm

The Council also received an update on its application for a 20 MPH speed limit in Merley House, Wimborne BH21 3AA
Briantspuddle and is liaising with Dorset Council to organise a traffic survey in the
village which is a prerequisite before being able to proceed. Tickets £15 (students/children £5) on the door or choir members
I am currently in the process of setting up meetings with local groups and Madrigals & folk songs, items by Byrd, Elgar, Monteverdi etc and settings of Te
organisations to find out from them what their challenges and opportunities are Deum by Vaughan Williams & Charpentier
and to see how the Parish Council can support them in reaching their objectives.
I am also interested to hear from individual parishioners - so if you have a question See www.dorsetchamberchoir.com for more information
please e-mail me on d.neudegg@hotmail.co.uk

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