Cash for Milngavie Music Club

Milngavie Music Club has been awarded £1,00 from Waitrose to help fund an ambitious event to mark its 75th anniversary next year.
Waitrose cheque presentation to Milngavie Music Club. Hugh Macdonald - President of MMC, Amy Sharp - manager, 
Juliet Lynn, Sue Baxdale, Liz Reeves, Euan Kemp and Emily Kemp.Waitrose cheque presentation to Milngavie Music Club. Hugh Macdonald - President of MMC, Amy Sharp - manager, 
Juliet Lynn, Sue Baxdale, Liz Reeves, Euan Kemp and Emily Kemp.
Waitrose cheque presentation to Milngavie Music Club. Hugh Macdonald - President of MMC, Amy Sharp - manager, Juliet Lynn, Sue Baxdale, Liz Reeves, Euan Kemp and Emily Kemp.

The grant from the John Lewis Partnership’s Music Matters scheme will enable Milngavie Music Club to collaborate with professional musicians from Music Co-OPERAtive Scotland (‘McOpera’) who will work with East Dunbartonshire Children’s Chorus and Youth Choir as well as other community groups.

They will perform the Russian composer Stravinsky’s timeless musical drama The Soldier’s Tale about a soldier

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who sells his fiddle to the devil, and composer Peter Kemp will work with the young people to create a new musical work called A Milngavie Tale featuring episodes from Milngavie’s colourful history to perform alongside Stravinsky’s masterpiece.

The event will be staged next April in Cairns Church, Milngavie.

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