Ouseburn Open Studios

The last weekend in November sees the return of the Ouseburn Open Studios. The event gives the public the opportunity to go behind the scenes of the region's leading studios and galleries.
North Wind quintet provided live music on the Saturday and Sunday in 36 Lime Street. (www.36limestreet.co.uk)

Morpeth Flood Relief

In a fundraising concert titled 'An evening of light classical and lively jazz music' in aid of the Morpeth Flood Relief, North Wind shared the programme with The Bewick Orchestra and KEVI Community Jazz Band at St James's Church in Morpeth.
Dave performed the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba with the Bewick Orchestra. The quintet then played Gershwin's Promenade, Agay's Five Easy Dances, The Pink Panther, 4 movements from the Capriol Suite and finished with the Can Can.

St Bartholomew's Church, Newbiggin

We received a warm welcome for our afternoon concert - the last in St Bartholomew's very successful Summer series.
The programme included Danzi G minor quintet, Agay's Five Easy dances, a selection of movements from the Capriol Suite, Sullivan Suite, Salut d'amour and Bobby Shaftoe - an arrangement by Newbiggin's very own composer/arranger Derek Hobbs.
Sparkling wine and multi variety kit-kat contributed to a pleasant, sociable interval .

Brinkburn Priory

The 12th century church of the Augustinian Priory of Brinkburn provided a perfect setting for the programme of songs performed by The Singers. It included music from the 16th century - Whyte's 'O praise God in his Holiest', through to the 20th century with James MacMillan's 'A child's Prayer' and 'My Lord, what a morning' by Burleigh.
Alison Rudd performed 2 baroque pieces on the organ.
North Wind played the 4 movements of the Danzi Quintet in G Minor, The Three Ravens and Bobby Shaftoe.

The King's Hall, University of Newcastle

North Wind members joined with the Northern English Singers and Northern Praeclassica in 'Faire is the Heaven' - a programme of songs of aspiration and yearning in various styles from the 16th to the 20th centuries. It included Bruckner's Mass in C minor and Faire is the Heaven by Harris. The wind players performed the first movement of the Mozart Serenade in Eb and a Dvorak Slavonic Dance.
Proceeds were in aid of the Great North Air Ambulance.

Lunchtime Concert, St George's URC Morpeth

We received a very warm welcome from our audience. On this occasion we performed 3 different versions of Bobby Shaftoe, Danzi G minor Wind Quintet, Ferenc Three Hungarian Dances, Hallam Dance Suite and 2 folk song arrangements.

Mozart on Tweed

'Mozart on Tweed' weekend festival held at Kelso Old Parish Church.

We performed Mozart Adagio & Rondo in C (arranged by Geoffrey Emerson), Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Francaix L'heure du berger and ended with the piano and wind quintet in E flat by Mozart.

In the evening we joined members of the Yetholm Sinfonia (http://www.yetholmsinfonia.com/) in an all Mozart programme.

ArtWorks, Stepney Bank

Launch evening of an exhibition of paintings by the artist Andrea Marrion.
Entitled 'Girl with a Pink Headscarf' the paintings are her tribute to share how 'positive, confident and beautiful women can look after diagnosis and treatment' of breast cancer.
The exhibition runs from 5th to the 20th October at The Artworks Galleries, Stepney Bank, Newcastle.

The Abbot's House, Abbot's Langley

Our 3rd visit to Abbot's Langley - in which we promised to play the Ligeti Sechs Bagatellen. These opened the concert and were surprisingly well received.
The Taffanel Quintet was followed by an interval in the beautiful garden of our hosts Sue and Peter
In the second half we played the Danzi Quintet in Bb major and an arrangement of Bizet's Jeux d'Enfants. Elgar's Salut d'Amour was our encore which marked the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Profound and profane

The 18th century Grade 1 listed building - The Church of St Ann in Newcastle - was the venue for our concert with the Northern English Singers, conducted by Howard Layfield. The choir performed a varied programme including 16th century Weelkes and Lassus to Messiaen and Dove of the 20th century. Robin accompanied on the organ.
North Wind performed the Malcolm Arnold Three Shanties for Wind and the Dance Suite by Norman Hallam.