Fwd: NMS Newsletter

[Lucy Muthaura]

Dear all,

See upcoming concerts in below newsletter. as NMS we are especially proud to present to you voices of the hospice on the weekend of 10th October.  Read on for more details and do join us. Feel free to share this newsletter with others.

See you then!

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From: Valerie Kent <mvaler...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:53 AM
Subject: NMS Newsletter
To: Valerie Kent <ke...@africaonline.co.ke>

Dear NMS Members and friends,

We are back in concert season again! For your diaries please note:

Two concerts in the immediate future, both of them regular events, both for very good causes

Saturday, 3rd October, 3.00 pm - Butterfly Trust Concert

Kenton College, Kileleshwa

Adults 1,500 kshs, Concessions 1000 kshs

NOTE THAT THIS CONCERT IS ON A SATURDAY THIS YEAR

Saturday, 10th October, 3.00 pm

Voices for Hospices performance of Handel’s Messiah

Bomas of Kenya, at the junction of Langata Road and Magadi Road

Adults 700 kshs Students (with ID) and children 300 kshs

For full details of both, please see the posters below. Both can be enlarged if you click on them.

 

Looking further forward: 

Nairobi Orchestra concerts, 7th November, 7.00 pm; 8th November, 3,00 pm

Nairobi Music Society Christmas concerts, 5th December at 7.30 pm; 6th December 3.00 pm

More details of both will be in a future Newsletter

The Butterfly Trust presents a varied programme of music performed by talented young people in what is always a delightful and inspiring afternoon.

The Trust is raising funds to further its aim of providing support at home for the families of people who are looking after a sick or injured relative

allowing that person to remain in familiar surroundings with their loved ones for as long as possible.

Carers recommended by the Trust attend a short course extending the skills and knowledge they will need in their work, including aspects of palliative care.

These courses are put on by Nairobi Hospice, who do not themselves currently  have funding to provide residential care - all the more reason also to support the Hospice, by attending (and, we hope, enjoying) the performance of Messiah, described underneath the Butterfly Trust poster! 

Voices for Hospices

Every third year, many choirs in Nairobi join together with the Nairobi Music Society Choir, soloists and Nairobi Orchestra to perform the great music of Handel’s Messiah.

• They join in a worldwide movement known as Voices for Hospices, on what is now officially World Hospice Day.

• Several hundred performers put in weeks of practice, glad to help to raise funds for Nairobi Hospice, supporting its vital work in caring for people with life-limiting illnesses. 

• As the Hospice describes it, their mission is to put life into their days, not just days into their lives 

• See the poster below for some of the participating choirs and all details