Fundraising concert with The Gravellers
16th October at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Save the date for this fundraising concert in support of the Museum Development Appeal. Come and enjoy some great singing and good company, and help to secure the future of your Town Museum. Visit this page to find out more about our plans and the progress of the Appeal.
Doors open at 7pm, concert starts at 7:30. There will be drinks and nibbles available to buy before the concert and during the interval, with additional entertainment from pianist Chris Dowie, and a raffle.
Tickets are £12 in advance, or £15 on the door. They can be bought in person at the museum (cash or card payment) or online; click below for the on-line payment page. If neither of these payment methods works for you, please contact us.
Entry is free for accompanied under-16s, but if you are ordering on line please email contact@blandfordtownmuseum.org.uk to reserve any “youth” tickets so that we can keep track of numbers for the event.
Who are the Gravellers? Difficult to say, probably. They came together over 25 years ago, a small group of friends who wanted to sing together. So two of them went to see Ros Evans, a fellow resident of Gravel Lane and musician, and asked for her help. ‘That was fun’, they said, ‘can we bring some friends?’. And so it started and so it has remained: a group of men who enjoy each others’ company. They share a wide variety of skills: farming, teaching, engineering, building, sailing – at one time four of them worked for the RNLI – but they are all communicators and between them they share 650 years of experience. And that is about the range of their repertoire : their earliest song comes from the 15th century and their latest from our own. They love their singing and they love any opportunity to inflict it on others…
