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April 2010 |
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DETOUR to Mossley Band Club Fri
23 April
Mossley Band Club & DETOURS
to stage fundraising acoustic concert in aid of Save Top
Mossley Whit Friday Band Contest
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- The Top Mossley Band Contest
has been held for many years in Mossley. Renee and Ken Harrison,
the late auntie and uncle of local acoustic pop rock band
DETOURS members Sam Johnson and Ez Jon Erikson, along with
Margaret and Terry Gaskill used to organize and run this event.
Now both Renee and Ken have passed away it has been passed to
Sam and Ez's cousin Paul Harrison and his wife Jenny to continue
this important tradition with Margaret and Terry.
The Mossley Band Contest is important because it brings people
and more importantly business into the village of Mossley. For
businesses such as the pubs and the chip shops it is probably
one of the busiest nights of the year. It also brings Mossley
together as a community, and with more and more villages giving
up this spirit and tradition, Paul and Jenny are proud of
Mossley and the support they see each year from the people who
share the village.
Sadly, there is a real danger of this year's contest being the
last in Top Mossley as it receives no support from the council,
and the only funds are from door to door collections,
collections in pubs, events, the sale of programs on the day,
local business buying adverts in the programs and donations from
Mossley's local businesses and the public. It would be a very
sad day for Mossley if they had to give up on their band
contest.
This is the reason for this event. DETOURS are honoured to be
performing an acoustic concert at Mossley Band Club on Friday
23rd April to raise funds and awareness towards the cause. For
only £4 there will be two half hour acoustic sets from Sam and
Ez, a disco, and even a potato pie supper! Ez has always wanted
to perform a gig where they serve a potato pie supper!!! There's
even a raffle too. So please come along if you can and support
the event.
Detours would like to thank Mossley Band Club for their support
with the concert, and in particular Mr Ian Riley. Thank you,
very much appreciated.
Tickets are available online at
http://www.detours.info/detoursmusicstore_detours.htm
Mossley Band & Town Council aid
flood hit Cumbria
Mossley Band involved in
fundraising for people of Workington
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was the scene on December 6th 2008, when just five minutes
away from Mossley Band's Concert venue of St. John’s Church, Workington, the Band
coach set on fire. The help, hospitality and generosity which the Band
received that night from the people of Workington and surrounding areas
was truly wonderful, so when the devastating floods hit Cumbria in
November 2009 Band members and friends had no hesitation in wanting to
help in any way they could. As previously reported, at a retiring
collection at their Christmas Concert with the Houghton Weavers at Hyde
Town Hall on December 11th, well-wishers raised £250 in about
five minutes.
Since then, with
the help of Mossley Town Council and the Minister and congregation, Mossley Band
played a Sunday afternoon concert at Mossley Methodist Church on January 17th. Initially it was very doubtful whether this Concert could take place and if
people would be willing or even able to leave their homes due to extremely bad
weather. In the event the treacherous ice miraculously cleared overnight on the
Friday/Saturday and £460 was raised.
On the following
Wednesday the Town Council used the Band Club to serve “Pie & Peas” Lunches. The meals were delicious and a further £136 was added to the fund, making a
running total of £846.
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A Raffle
was held at the Band’s 'Burns Supper' on Saturday, January 23rd
which brought in £95 and £15
in donations. Another donation of £20 was received from a diner at the
Band’s Sunday Lunch on February 7th, the Band “chipped in” a
further £24 resulting in a cheque for £1,000 being forwarded to 'The
Provincial Grand Master’s Benevolent Fund'.
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Councillor Val Carter (Deputy
Mayor), Keith Trelfa (Town Clerk) and Councillor Marie Milne representing
Mossley Town Council; Lynn Riley and David Johnson (Chairman) of Mossley Band.
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This amount will increase by
28% Gift Aid and will be distributed through the Fund to help
small businesses
"get back on their feet",
people who are too
proud to ask for help and those who, because they live in
outlying areas, are sometimes forgotten.
MOSSLEY BAND COULD NOT HAVE
ACHIEVED THIS RESULT WITHOUT THE HELP OF MANY PEOPLE AND THEY
WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND THEIR VERY GRATEFUL THANKS TO:-
- Local people
who willingly and so generously supported
them
- John B.
Sullivan, Mayor of Tameside,
who kindly gave his permission for the closing collection at
Hyde Town Hall at what was a fund raising Concert for his own
nominated charities
- Rev. Helen
Bell
and the congregation of Mossley Methodist Church
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Members of Mossley Town Council
THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH
INDEED!
Mossley Band
are delighted
with the outcome of this fund raising and hope it will go some
way to help the people of Cumbria who have been so badly
affected by the floods and to whom
the Band
send
their
very best wishes for the future. |
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