Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Enormous success...




'Ivories to Africa' - my fundraising piano recital on Saturday - was an enormous success.


Many more people turned up than expected, and (on the whole) the playing went well. I talked about my project and Tanzania as a country between pieces, and attempted to teach the Tanzanian National Anthem...in Swahili...!

Mum put on a fantastic spread of nibbles with an East Africa 'flavour', and we made a huge display that went down well. Thank you to Martin Hall who leant me the display boards, to boyfriend Jon, best friend Steff, good mate Sam and my lovely family for their help and support.

So, how much did I raise, I hear you ask... in total, an astonishing

£700 !


£474.89 was raised on the night, and £225.50 in donations from people who couldn't make it.


Obviously this will make such a difference to my Africa fund, so a real heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who supported me.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dear Lucie,

Well done with the concert (huge success of course!) - and SO WELL done with the fund-raising. That must make a decent dent in the amount that you still need to raise! There were more than a few people saying how lovely it was to have such an opportunity to hear you play - and also, those who said, "hasn't Kirkby got a lot of talent!" Well it has, and it would be a shame if events like yours didn't somehow raise the 'arts' profile a little more. Anyway - hugest congratulations. Mark (ps - thought about the flute yet?)