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Mercy Ships provides free surgery and medical care for impoverished communities. For three weeks in September, Jan and Suli will be travelling to Togo in West Africa aboard a Mercy Ship where they will work in theatres and post-op recovery. This will be the second trip for Suli who also travelled to Sierra Leone in Summer 2011.
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Donkey Races April 12th – Guernsey Yacht ClubRaising money to fund two theatre nurses aboard the Mercy Ships
Tickets available from Suli or Jan in Theatres or Day Patient Unit at The Princess Elizabeth Hospital mobile: 07781127009 |
Jan Roberts and Suli Henderson – Mercy Ships
Suli and Jan have self-funded their airfare and accomodation and would welcome further donations to give directly to the Mercy Ships charity. Donations can be made directly to Suli or Jan in cash or by cheques (payable to Mrs S. Henderson or Mrs J. Roberts).
First race 7.15. Tickets £10 inc steak and ale pie supper (vegetarian option available). Betting on each race starts at 50p. Race or donkey sponsorship available (£20 – £50) which entitles the sponsor to name the race, name the donkey and choose the jockeys. Sponsors can also introduce a handicap (e.g. blindfolded donkeys, blindfold the jockeys, introduce course obstacle etc). Donkey sponsors receive a payout if their donkey wins. Donkeys for the final race will be sold at auction on the evening.Vivien Rothwell
Welcome to my web page and thanks to the continued support from my friend Chris Taylor in music and website. And photographer Tim feak for his wonderful work.
The message is simple: Come Away with Me to this idyllic place of peace where creative energy flows.
My jazz music pictures in Paris are coming soon along with more music!
Many thanks and see you soon. Viv.
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Musicians wanted for August event in Guernsey
Hello,
Please forward to others who may be interested:
I am looking for established or bespoke music acts to take part in an event in August.
The vision is to stage several acts in one night in front of an audience seated at tables with drinks service. This will give local or locally connected musicians another opportunity to play on an entertaining evening to an appreciative audience. I will also be looking for someone to host the evening and introduce acts etc.
I deliberately avoid suggesting a genre or format – I can only rely on you to provide the raw material around which to build a great evening. My only request is that your set should be professional quality and entertaining. The audience will purchase tickets before the event and as such the musicians will be paid a modest fee.
If you are interested and want more information please email me: chris@christaylorguitar.gg
Many thanks,
Chris Taylor
Valentines at The Farmhouse Hotel 2012
Valentine’s night at The Farmhouse Hotel, Tuesday 14th February 2012.
- Free flowing Veuve Clicquot Rose Champagne and Farmhouse canapes on arrival
- Three course Valentines dinner menu
- Coffee and Petit Fours
- Elemis ‘Treasures’ gift pack worth £35
- Intimate acoustic entertainment from Lydia Jane and Chris Taylor
To book call 264181 or ask at The Farmhouse Reception
The Rock Garden Guernsey
Flicking through issue two of The Gallery Magazine I found this picture of me playing the opening night at The Rock Garden, Fermain.
The Rock Garden – charming staff and a very classy venue. I didn’t get a chance to taste the food (always a problem when I’m playing!) but it looked excellent.
Thank you to The Gallery Magazine for sweeping my up amongst their paparazzi shots.
My first review
A review by Lester Queripel after I played at the Guernsey Poetry Club on 27th December 2011:
“CHRIS TAYLOR WAS OUR GUEST MUSICIAN AND WHAT AN ABSOLUTE TREAT IT WAS LISTENING TO HIS MUSIC AS HE PERFORMED FRETBOARD GYMNASTICS ON HIS GUITAR. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLLOW HIS FINGERS SO I CLOSED MY EYES AND LISTENED TO THE MUSICAL PATTERNS HE WAS WEAVING. DURING HIS VERSION OF ‘YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND’ HE EVEN PLAYED HARMONY TO THE MELODY. AMAZING.”
Thank you Lester!
Bourgs Hospice CCD Fabulous Houses Fundraiser
CCD Architects are holding an exhibition in the Royal Court Atrium to celebrate 30 years of Fabulous Houses in Guernsey. The exhibition supports Les Bourgs Hospice and opens with a reception from 6pm on Thursday 8th September.
Welcome Drinks at Castle Cornet
Natalie and Joel’s wedding party made the effort to climb to the highest point of Castle Cornet for their Welcome Drinks in July. The views were stunning. I grabbed this shot whilst looking out for coaches of guests. I had played the Castle for the very first time the night before at “Castle Nights”.
Wedding Stationery from Indigo Flash
Bespoke, hand made invitations, table plans and favours www.indigoflash.co.uk (Guernsey)
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This is the Indigo Flash press release: We create beautiful bespoke wedding invitations, save-the-date cards, table names, table favours, place names and thank-you cards. Importantly, if you wish, our products can be tailored to exquisitely match your wedding theme and colours. We make ordering your stationery for the big day trouble free, taking away the worry and giving you one less thing on the “to do” list.
Braye Beach Hotel Wedding
I played a lovely wedding yesterday at the Braye Beach Hotel in Alderney. It wasn’t very sunny unfortunately but I had some time before the guests turned up so I took this picture over the bay.
Waiting for guests to arrive for Welcome Drinks
Problem creating Lilypond score from TablEdit
I have recently got started with ‘TablEdit’ and ‘Lilypond’ music notation editors. One feature of TablEdit I would like to use is the ‘export in Lilypond’ format. I have encountered a problem which I hope is only down to my inexperience with both software packages. The files below demonstrate my issue.
I created one bar of music notation in 6/8 time with TablEdit. This bar has dotted crotchets as part of the middle voice. I save this TablEdit file and export to lilypond format which gives me the .ly file. When I generate the pdf file from lilypond, some of the dotted crotchets are missing. What am I doing wrong?
This is the bar that I’m trying to convert from TablEdit to Lilypond:
And these are the supporting files:
Tabledit file
Pdf made by LilypondContact Riva Bistro Guernsey
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These are the contact details for the Riva Bistro in Guernsey:
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Book Live Music in Guernsey
Live music is a special treat that we don’t see often enough. It’s a luxury that a host can provide for guests and makes an occasion memorable.
Thank you for visiting my website. I play solo instrumental Jazz, Latin and Classical music on a Spanish Guitar. A demo can be heard on my music page. I am very passionate about the music in my repertoire and a considerable amount of preparation goes into my set.
I have been back in Guernsey since Christmas 2009 and have played the following: weddings, hotels, cafes, birthday parties, charity balls, club nights, bank functions, a champagne breakfast, Miss Guernsey and Glastonbury (sorry had to chuck that in). Please have a look at my homepage for a full listing.
I enjoy the challenge of arranging new pieces for solo guitar, so if you have a special request please let me know in advance.
I use the minimal amount of equipment. Generally my footprint is just the space for a chair and a speaker stand. Occasionally, at very quite events, I would be able to play un-amplified but in my experience this is rare.
Please contact me and ask for a quote.
2012 Guernsey Sunday Seafront Closure Dates
These are the Guernsey Sunday Seafront Closure dates for 2012:
27th May
17th June
15th July
5th August
12th August
2nd September
9th September
Amalio Burguet ABF Mixta Review
My current guitar is an Amalio Burguet ABF Mixta. I bought the guitar personally from Amalio whilst he was on a visit to Oxford, UK. The guitar is a beautiful Spruce top with all the standard features as described on the website. This is a hybrid flamenco – classical guitar, which is perfect for my style, although I wouldn’t dare try and play flamenco in public! The guitar is number 14-2005, handmade by the Luthier with the ‘B’ initial passing through the headstock.
It goes without saying that I am very happy with the quality of the sound, predominately, this is a ‘Latin’ sounding guitar. It is extremely well balanced through the bass and right up into the highest tones. It is not designed for the concert platform but the instrument is perfect for my wedding, hotel and party gigs. I particularly like the smaller fretboard surface to back of neck distance and the golpe protector that is so well fitted you wouldn’t know it was there without looking very closely.
When playing, I quickly worked out the action was too low for me; any firm or medium rest stroke caused the strings to rattle against the fretboard. So, I had the action raised by Christopher Dean a Luthier of fine concert guitars in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. I would’ve had the action higher still but Chris pointed out that it wasn’t possible to make the slot in the bridge deep enough to grip a taller saddle – essentially because the guitar was designed to be low action in the first instance.
Christopher Dean also fitted a Fishman SBT-C pickup for me. I amplify the guitar this way, with entirely outboard electronics and no extra holes necessary. I have a separate blog post on how to amplify a classical guitar.
I am 188cm tall and as such I find the body of a classical guitar too small, especially as my preference is to sit with the guitar on my right knee, like a steel string player. I make the surface of top of the guitar artificially larger by fitting a ‘Guitarest’ from De Oro music and an arm rest from Liikanenguitars Guitars
The small sound file on my Music page is all recorded on the ABF Mixta, with the SBT Fishman pickup, through a Fishman preamp and then line-out from an AER amp directly into the soundcard of my laptop running Audacity.
