We were at the Ship in for another grand performance by professional musician Ben Lambert.
Ben got the evening off to a swinging start with a Buble classic- "I just haven't met you yet", the audience joined in the swing of things by swaying along to "Sway" and "Save the last dance for me". A real "feel good" factor was in the air and the Ship Inn was well and truly packed with support for this evening’s performer!
Ben has been singing professionally for over 20 years, his singing career has sent him around the world on cruises and in International hotels. Ben’s vocal talents cover a vast repertoire of music and Artists.
Tonight we will be wrapped up warm in Wokingham Library with Luckley House Choir. Hope to see you there.
News and videos from the Wokingham Living Advent Calendar, a Wokingham Town Council / More Arts production. 24 performances over 24 days in December. Performances start at 6pm weekdays, 4pm weekends and last for approx 20 mins at a venue in the Town Centre.
Thursday, 8 December 2016
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
6th December - Pauly Zarb and Family at the Local Barbershop
On the 6th Living Advent Calendar performance we were at The Local Barbershop for another brilliant event, this time by Pauly Zarb and family. Pauly originally from Australia now residing in Wokingham, has been a professional musician for over 20 years. From Australia’s best festivals to USA's best festivals and now in Europe, Pauly is well recognized throughout the world of music.
Pauly opened his performance with a heartfelt rendition of "O Holy Night" whilst the crowd were handed a warming Hot Chocolate from Local Barbershop host Simon. Pauly then invited his daughters Chloe and Ella up to join him, aged just 11yrs and 9yrs they displayed their talents playing "Silent Night" on the violin and guitar. Even his youngest, 3 year old Zavier couldn’t resist a turn at the mic with an impromptu rendition of Tommy Thumb. We were then treated to a true family singsong of classics such as “Rockin around the Christmas Tree” and “Frosty the snowman”. What a talented family!!
Many thanks to the Local Barbershop our hosts for this evening. In their words. “The Local Barber Shop is truly local! We have a team all living within a 5 mile radius of the shop. A majority of the team went to school in Wokingham. That means that the money we generate is spent locally and benefits the town. Come and be a part of a local success story.”
Tonight we will be at the Ship Inn for performance 7, Ben Lambert with some swing classics, Michael Buble and a few seasonal songs.
Pauly opened his performance with a heartfelt rendition of "O Holy Night" whilst the crowd were handed a warming Hot Chocolate from Local Barbershop host Simon. Pauly then invited his daughters Chloe and Ella up to join him, aged just 11yrs and 9yrs they displayed their talents playing "Silent Night" on the violin and guitar. Even his youngest, 3 year old Zavier couldn’t resist a turn at the mic with an impromptu rendition of Tommy Thumb. We were then treated to a true family singsong of classics such as “Rockin around the Christmas Tree” and “Frosty the snowman”. What a talented family!!
Many thanks to the Local Barbershop our hosts for this evening. In their words. “The Local Barber Shop is truly local! We have a team all living within a 5 mile radius of the shop. A majority of the team went to school in Wokingham. That means that the money we generate is spent locally and benefits the town. Come and be a part of a local success story.”
Tonight we will be at the Ship Inn for performance 7, Ben Lambert with some swing classics, Michael Buble and a few seasonal songs.
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
5th December - Dressing the Christmas Tree
It was a cold evening that saw the Wokingham Town schools arrive to present their decorations to the Mayor Cllr Gwynneth Hewetson and Mini-Mayor Elysia.
13 local schools took part and carols were wonderfully led by Wokingham Choral Society.
Many thanks also to 1st Winnersh Scouts for doing the refreshments and for Tesco and Marks and Spencer for donating mince pies.
The decorations are already on the tree and are looking lovely.
Join the Wokingham Living Advent Calendar tonight at the Local Barber shop for what will undoubtedly be a rousing performance by Pauly Zarb.
13 local schools took part and carols were wonderfully led by Wokingham Choral Society.
Foundry College
Evendons Primary School
Emmbrook Infants School
Wescott School
Walter Infant School
Hawthorns School
Keep Hatch School
St Teresa’s School
Emmbrook Junior School
Westende School
The Emmbrook School
The Holt School
Luckley House School
The Wokingham Paper was on site to take photographs do check them out on their article on the event here.Evendons Primary School
Emmbrook Infants School
Wescott School
Walter Infant School
Hawthorns School
Keep Hatch School
St Teresa’s School
Emmbrook Junior School
Westende School
The Emmbrook School
The Holt School
Luckley House School
Many thanks also to 1st Winnersh Scouts for doing the refreshments and for Tesco and Marks and Spencer for donating mince pies.
The decorations are already on the tree and are looking lovely.
Join the Wokingham Living Advent Calendar tonight at the Local Barber shop for what will undoubtedly be a rousing performance by Pauly Zarb.
Monday, 5 December 2016
4th December - Mountain Entertainment at Sanpa
It was a fantastic turnout on Sunday afternoon with Sanpa our venue packed to the rafters.
Danny and the dancers from Mountain Entertainment started with their infamous "Viva Las Vegas", then Danny performed a Buddy Holly medley.
The dancers then joined Danny for the popular 60's favourite "Twistin the night away", followed by an upbeat Motown medley.
Next Danny had the crowd singing along and waving paper napkins to "Cant take my eyes off of you" which was a real highlight to see the whole of Sanpa joining in!
The finale was the classic "New York New York" with the girls wearing feathers and the crowd kicking their legs!!!
Mountain really wanted us to make sure you knew how excited they were to be taking part in 2016's Living Advent Calendar and thank you for coming along to this performance as well as supporting them throughout the year.
Enjoy this little video courtesy of Mountain Entertainment.
Tonight we are Dressing the Christmas Tree with 13 Wokingham Schools and Wokingham Choral Society. Hope to see you there.
Danny and the dancers from Mountain Entertainment started with their infamous "Viva Las Vegas", then Danny performed a Buddy Holly medley.
The dancers then joined Danny for the popular 60's favourite "Twistin the night away", followed by an upbeat Motown medley.
Next Danny had the crowd singing along and waving paper napkins to "Cant take my eyes off of you" which was a real highlight to see the whole of Sanpa joining in!
The finale was the classic "New York New York" with the girls wearing feathers and the crowd kicking their legs!!!
Mountain really wanted us to make sure you knew how excited they were to be taking part in 2016's Living Advent Calendar and thank you for coming along to this performance as well as supporting them throughout the year.
Enjoy this little video courtesy of Mountain Entertainment.
Tonight we are Dressing the Christmas Tree with 13 Wokingham Schools and Wokingham Choral Society. Hope to see you there.
3rd December - Time to Sing at Jess and Jake fashion
Saturday saw us at a packed Jess & Jake Fashion for the third Living Advent Calendar performance, it was great to see the shop crammed full of support for the performers of this special event.
Time to Sing are a small friendly choir who love to perform at local events, singing a wide variety of music ranging from show tunes to pop & rock. These fabulous ladies very much looking the part dressed in purple attire.
Their musical Director Daniel led the choir, they sang a mix of traditional carols and Christmas songs such as "Angels we have heard on high" ,"Do you hear what I hear?" and "Carol of the Bells" from the Home alone movie which was a true highlight with the blend of harmonies! A really talented choir that thoroughly delighted the public.
Enjoy the photos below and many thanks to the Wokingham Paper who captured a video on the night. Check out their Facebook page here for the video.
Jess & Jake Fashion treated the crowd with fizz and nibbles.
Hope you can join us tonight at Dressing the Christmas Tree.
Time to Sing are a small friendly choir who love to perform at local events, singing a wide variety of music ranging from show tunes to pop & rock. These fabulous ladies very much looking the part dressed in purple attire.
Their musical Director Daniel led the choir, they sang a mix of traditional carols and Christmas songs such as "Angels we have heard on high" ,"Do you hear what I hear?" and "Carol of the Bells" from the Home alone movie which was a true highlight with the blend of harmonies! A really talented choir that thoroughly delighted the public.
Enjoy the photos below and many thanks to the Wokingham Paper who captured a video on the night. Check out their Facebook page here for the video.
Jess & Jake Fashion treated the crowd with fizz and nibbles.
Hope you can join us tonight at Dressing the Christmas Tree.
2nd December - Lyrica at Martin & Co
We were at Martin & Co on the 2nd December for our second Wokingham Living Advent Calendar performance.
It was a cold evening, but act Lyrica warmed the crowd up with dancing and getting everyone singing along, while enjoying a mince pie and a tipple of mulled wine kindly provided by Martin & Co.
Lyrica are a fabulous trio comprising of the wonderful Gillie on vocals, Diane on the soulful cello and the awesome Kevin on guitar and backing vocals, who cheered the crowd with a fantastic mix of music including "Stand By Me", "Proud Mary", "Those were the days my friend" and everyone joined in with their final Christmas song, "We wish you a merry Christmas".
Enjoy these photos of the evening, also below a short video from the evening from Facebook.
Tonight we are all gathering in the Market Place for the annual Dressing of the Christmas Tree where 13 local schools will present their decorations to the Town Mayor Cllr Gwynneth Hewetson, carols will be led by Wokingham Choral Society and refreshments provided by 1st Winnersh Scouts and local supermarkets.
Friday, 2 December 2016
1st December 2016 - Platform YP at Wokingham Town Hall
Wokingham Living Advent Calendar is back!
We were treated last night to some very talented young professionals in the form of Platform YP a local performing arts school working with students aged 3-18.
They gave a spirited rendition of a number of songs from their repertoire including starting with a classic in the form of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". Other songs including "At the Beginning" from 90's animated musical Anastasia.
Do enjoy the video below.
The 100 strong crowd enjoyed some Christmassy chocolate biscuits courtesy of Wokingham Town Hall and Town Mayor Cllr Gwynneth Hewetson opened the performance.
Tonight the performance is at Martin & Co Estate Agents on Peach Street in the renovated Corn Chandlers and will be "Lyrica" who comprises the versatile Kevin on guitar and backing vocals. Debbie on soulful cello and Gillie on vocals and percussion. The music varies from smooth and lyrical to upbeat, playful and even raunchy:-) Country/Classical meets Tina…with just a hint of Christmas.
We were treated last night to some very talented young professionals in the form of Platform YP a local performing arts school working with students aged 3-18.
They gave a spirited rendition of a number of songs from their repertoire including starting with a classic in the form of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". Other songs including "At the Beginning" from 90's animated musical Anastasia.
Do enjoy the video below.
The 100 strong crowd enjoyed some Christmassy chocolate biscuits courtesy of Wokingham Town Hall and Town Mayor Cllr Gwynneth Hewetson opened the performance.
Tonight the performance is at Martin & Co Estate Agents on Peach Street in the renovated Corn Chandlers and will be "Lyrica" who comprises the versatile Kevin on guitar and backing vocals. Debbie on soulful cello and Gillie on vocals and percussion. The music varies from smooth and lyrical to upbeat, playful and even raunchy:-) Country/Classical meets Tina…with just a hint of Christmas.
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