Friends of Bury St. Edmunds County Music School

Our last event of term is our Summer Concert on Saturday 5th July. BCMS members today received a letter with a consent form to be returned by next Saturday.
For more details and a link to a map see Here. Donations of cakes and biscuits for refreshments at the end of the morning will be welcome!

For those who need a reminder of the arrangements, click Barbican Trip 15 June 2014 Details. You can find out more about the concert from the LSO Website here. We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow. Don’t forget, the buses depart from County Upper School at 8:00 am sharp. It should be a grand day out!

P.S. I hope everyone has downloaded, printed and practised the music from the LSO site… and that includes the Mums and Dads. You will be singing along, won’t you? And be sure to mind the…..

Update: Indeed it was a grand day out. Any comments? Please reply Here.

Following the success of our music and instrument sale at the Buns & Biscuits Day, we have added a place on the website for members to put Music and Instruments for Sale. In order to place an advert or subscribe for notifications you will need to Register for the site. While we were at it, we’ve created a couple of other places for people to add comments or discussion about the Friends activities, Tuckshop and Music School – all under Forums. Once your registration has been approved you will need to Login to be able to post or subscribe. You can read more about this in the General forum. We look forward to hearing from you!
Update: Our stock of music for sale has now been published. See here

A Newsletter was issued to all members of the Bury St. Edmunds County Music School last Saturday, 26th April. You can view it by following this link:  County Music School Summer Term Newsletter.

Music School activities for Summer Term 2014 have commenced. There will be plenty going on! See the Full Calendar  and Coming Events pages for details. Volunteers for the Tuck Shop can find this term’s rota, instructions and contact details in the Volunteers area of the site.

Many thanks to all who contributed to the Buns & Biscuits day on the 15th March. We had masses of cakes to sell, as well as second hand music and musical instruments. I think we will be running these days again regularly. Watch out for further announcements next term!

In 2013 the Friends funded the making of some special heavy duty canvas bags to protect the Music Service’s wonderful new Taiko drums. You can see the letter of thanks we got here -> Letter of Thanks to Friends of BCMS.

Thanks to proceeds from the Tuck Shop, the Friends are organising a subsidised day trip to London on Sunday 15th June to go to the LSO Discovery Family Concert Trains, Planes and Automobiles. It will be a full day as we will have specially arranged workshops with members of the LSO for our students. It should be fun!

Update: Letters and forms were sent out on Sat. 25th January. You can find a copy to print Here.

Welcome to 2014 and a new year of Music School activities. Tuck shop rotas for the coming term can be found Here. News of forthcoming events are Here.

Many thanks for all the contributions for drinks and mince pies at the Christmas Concerts. As a result, we were able to make a donation of £80 each to the children’s charities Clic Sargent and Nordoff Robbins!