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• Sat

  25

  Oct

  2025

  SA: 2025 Spring Festival

  9am - 6pm

  St Columba’s, 101 Cross Rd, Hawthorn 5062

  We’ll be celebrating the life and work of Orlando Gibbons in this his 400th Anniversary year with a day of singing, workshops, seminars and fellowship, and concluding with a Festival Evensong at 5pm.

  
  The Peoples:

  Directed by: Alex Roose & Richard Black
  with presentations by Josie Ryan & Stuart Connew
  Celebrants: Rev’d Sam Goodes 
  Organist: Casey McEwan

   

  Works:
  Gibbons First Evening Service, O Clap your hands, Almighty and everlasting God, Song 5 and Song 34 – Orlando Gibbons 

   

  Workshops & Seminars:
  Advancing your sight-reading – Josie Ryan 
  New additions to the Revised English Hymnal – Stuart Connew
  A practical guide to online choir resources – including the RSCM’s Choir Management Software Sunday by Sunday Plus, CPDL, Hymnary, etc. – Richard Black

   

  Lunch, workshops, seminars and music all included

   

  Schedule:
  Festival Schedule:
  09:00           Registration opens – Parish Hall
  09:30           Morning Rehearsal (60min) – Church
  10:30           Morning tea (15min) – Choir vestry
  10:45           Morning Rehearsal cont. (60min) – Church
  11:45           Break (15min)
  12:00           Seminar: New additions to the Revised English Hymnal (Stuart Connew) – Church
  13:00           Lunch (provided) – Parish Hall
  14:00           Workshops: A:  Advancing your sight-reading (Josie Ryan) – Church
                                             B:  A practical guide to online choir resources (Richard Black) – Parish Hall
  15:00           Afternoon tea break (30min) – Choir vestry
  15:30           Dress Rehearsal (60min) – Church
  17:00           Festival Evensong Service – Church

   

  Registration
  Tickets: $40, members $20

  You will also receive a playlist, scores and rehearsal tracks with the purchase of your ticket.