- Sunday afternoons
- Once a month
- For any orchestral musician
- Relaxed and fun
- Leaside Church and Community Centre
- 2.00 – 5.00
Ware Community Orchestra was started in May 2017 following a one-off pop-up community orchestra day. The Ware Pop Up Orchestra event brought 36 players ranging in age from 8 to 80 together for the first time, for an afternoon of relaxed orchestral music-making. The aim was to provide an opportunity for rusty players and dusty instruments to get an airing – but we actually attracted a wide range of musicians with a varying levels of experience.
As we enjoyed ourselves on the Pop Up day, we chatted about ‘doing it again’ and so after a brief consultation of the crucial details – what kind of biscuits should be have a tea break etc, we decided to start a new regular orchestra. But, good news, it’s not too regular, so it won’t interfere with our already busy lives too much, but does give us a chance to do some music-making, which is only a great thing!
We meet once a month, on Sunday afternoons at Leaside Church and Community Centre in Ware High Street. We enjoy playing through a range of fairly light-ish, orchestral repertoire that is specially chosen, and sometimes specially arranged for a mixed-ability, slightly-different-players-every-week kind of group.
We do not plan for concerts, and players can come and not come as they wish. It’s run on a pay-as-you-play basis, £5.00 per 3 hour session, payable on the day, into the purple tin – old school!
New members:
If you would like to join us at Ware Community Orchestra use the Contact form below (or above). We will then be able to let you know how to get hold of copies of the music we will be playing.