The Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen

An Open Air service is planned for the 3rd June to give thanks and celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen. The service will be taking place on Broad Street at 10.30am, with well known hymns, it’s a great opportunity for the whole community to get together. Bring your own chair and join in. The service is being followed by the ‘Big Jubilee Lunch’.

Also we are honoured to have a Special Diamond Jubilee Book to allow people to write a personal ‘Thank You’ to the Queen. It will be in St John’s Church, Chipping Sodbury,  from Monday 28th May to Sunday 10th June, we would like to invite anyone to come and write their message between 9am and 3pm during this period, just call in.
The books from around the country will be put together and presented to the Queen.

Plant Sale and Coffee Morning

Mothers’ Union Plant Sale and Coffee Morning at the Church Centre on the 19th May from 10am until noon.

Gatehouse Coffee and Bookshop

During May the Gatehouse coffee and Bookshop (Station Road, Yate) are holding a jubilee sale with books 3 for 2, half price bibles and a selection of gifts  on offer.

Healing Services

Healing Services will be held at St John’s Chipping Sodbury on the 27 May and at St John’s Old Sodbury on the 20 May.

Pilgrimage

On Sunday April 29th a largish band of foolhardy pilgrims left St Adeline’s Church after the Benefice Service and journeyed to Horton where they enjoyed a good lunch provided by the helpers at Horton Village Hall. A smaller band of pilgrims then wended their way back to Little Sodbury (our Rector unfortunately ripped her waterproof trousers & was unable to continue), and an even smaller band then trekked to St John’s Old Sodbury.
There the band split in two, some returning to Little Sodbury to collect their cars, but an intrepid few carried on to St John’s, Chipping Sodbury literally walking on water most of the way.
Well done to everyone who braved the weather!

A Farewell to Archdeacon Geoffrey Sidaway

The Bishop of Gloucester
invites you to
a Eucharist in Celebration of the Ministry of
Geoffrey Sidaway as Archdeacon of Gloucester
in Gloucester Cathedral
on Friday 18 May at 7.30 pm

All are welcome!

Concert at Wickwar

BRISTOL CATHEDRAL CONCERT CHOIR

at Holy Trinity Church, Wickwar
CONCERT FOR A SUMMER EVENING
Saturday 23rd June 2012 at 7.30pm
Tickets £10
Free: Under 18′s & Student Card holders
from Wickwar Rectory 01454 294267
davidrussell@gmx.com

programme:

VIVALDI: GLORIA
GABRIELI: JUBILATE DEO
HOLST: FOLK SONG ARRANGEMENTS
IRELAND: THE HILLS
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SILENCE AND MUSIC

http://www.concertchoir.co.uk/concerts.html

Piatti to play Beethoven and Schubert Quartets!

The Piatti String Quartet is coming to Chipping Sodbury on Tuesday 8 May 2012. They will be performing in the Town Hall at 7.30 pm and tickets will be available on the door; adults £12 and school-age children FREE.  Website: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gswhiley/csms

This is your chance to hear them play before they perform later this year in Hugh Wood’s 80^th birthday concert at the Guildhall, during the Bath International Festival. Their programme in Chipping Sodbury will be Beethoven’s String Quartet Op 132 in A minor and Schubert’s String Quartet No 14 in D minor, ‘Death and the Maiden’ D 810.

Winners of the St. Martins in the Fields Chamber Music Competition and the Martin Musical/Philharmonia Scholarship Fund 2010 the Piatti Quartet is fast emerging as one of the UK’s leading young string quartets. The members of the Quartet are: Charlotte Scott - first violin, Michael Trainor - second violin, David Wigram - viola and Jessie Ann Richardson - cello.

Previous recipients of the Tunnell Trust Award and selected as Park Lane Group Young Artists in 2009/2010, more recent news includes a second year as Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music and winning the St Peter’s Eaton Square Prize 2011. In 2012 the Piatti Quartet was chosen for Future Classics Classical Tour supported by the PLG and Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust, which includes a concert tour and CD recording, giving audiences around the UK a unique opportunity to see the stars of tomorrow.

The Rev Val Bexon

It was announced on Sunday 1 April (and it was no joke!) that Val has been appointed Rector of the Ermin West Benefice. She will have 9 churches to look after.  Val has done really well as this was the first post of responsibility she applied for.  We will all really miss her and Stuart when she moves on. There will be a special Benefice Service at Chipping Sodbury on the 26th August to allow us all to say our farewells.

Yate Choral Society

Yate Choral Society are holding a concert at 7.30pm on Sat 5th May at St John’s CS. Tickets available from 324839 / 314779