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Twenty five members of the Wight Satin
Ladies Barbershop Chorus will be serenading the passengers
on Wightlink’s Fishbourne to Portsmouth car ferry service on
the afternoon of Sunday 23rd September in aid of Children in
Need.
The ladies of the group will be singing
their melodic close harmonies on the 1300 sailing from
Fishbourne and the 1630 sailing from Gunwharf, so passengers
travelling both to and from the Island will benefit from
their dulcet tones.
Their feature song for this year’s
fundraising event is ‘Pudsey Bear’ which has been specially
written for the occasion and is sung to the tune of ‘King of
the Road’. The group has received full copyright clearance
to sing it in public.
Amongst the other songs the Wight Satin
Ladies Barbershop Chorus will sing on board will be: -
Look Out World, Country Roads, Rubber
Duckie, I Feel A Song Coming On and Over the Rainbow.
This November marks the 20th anniversary
of the group who practice regularly every Thursday at
Carisbrooke Primary School. Their ages range from as young
as 12, right up to 85, and new members are always welcome.
In March this year they won the
Barbershop section of the Isle of Wight Music Festival,
gaining the highest marks in both the Senior and Junior
vocal and choir sections, so passengers on the Wightlink
ferry on 23rd September are in for a big treat.
Commenting on the forthcoming event,
Kerry Jackson, Marketing Manager for Wightlink Isle of Wight
Ferries, said: -
“We thought we would do something
different for this year’s Children in Need, and when the
Wight Satin Ladies Barbershop Chorus offered to sing on
board one of our ferries to raise money for the charity, it
seemed a great idea to us. With their close harmony and
quality of singing, I know they will delight everyone on
board and we wish them great success in their fundraising
efforts.”
ENDS
13th September 2007
For more information, please contact: -
Kerry Jackson, Marketing Manager,
Wightlink Isle of Wight Ferries
Tel. 023 9285 5427, e-mail
kerryjackson@wightlink.co.uk
or
Christopher Clode at Christopher Clode
Public Relations
Tel. 01243 431343, e-mail
chris@chrisclodepr.com |
