Concert
Anzac Evening
Friday 25th April • 18:30 – 21:00
Hosted by Ann Seddon & Stephen Bartley
£25 online.
Please all come! Anzac biscuits, drinks and eats. Ross Alley will be our Master of ceremonies. Our wonderful Joanna Mc Callum will be reciting war poems, and Tait memorial Trust Artists and our talented Maggie Baring will be singing. Price includes drinks and delcious Canapés.
To be confirmed: a short presentation about Ellis Silas’ Gallipoli Drawings. Ellis painted the Sketchers Arm sign.
Ross Alley
Ross Alley was, for many years, a music lecturer for Birkbeck College (University of London). He has also given numerous guest lectures for the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Wigmore Hall, the Wagner Society, the Gustav Mahler Society, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, and The Arts Society (formerly NADFAS).
Tait memorial Trust
The Trust offers awards/grants for postgraduate study, performance opportunities to young Australian and New Zealand musicians and performing artists and general help in the furtherance of their careers while resident in the UK.
Maggie Baring
Maggie Baring is a rising artist and songwriter based in London, freshly out of university and starting her career in music full-time. Maggie’s previous releases demonstrate her range in songwriting ability, from soul-funk to folk to country.
Ellis Silas
A member of The London Sketch Club, painter, stained glass artist and writer, son of the painter Louis Silas. Ellis studied painting with his father and Walter Sickert, and is notable for his landscapes and marine studies. During World War I he was a war artist for the Australian government. He travelled extensively in Papua, featuring his travels in A Primitive Arcadia.
£25 online.
