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Global voices bridge the continents

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Published Date:
03 July 2009
Students will be coming out of Africa to join local school pupils in an African music extravaganza.
The Global Voices concert will see 350 students from seven Fareham schools joined by 10 talented South Africans.

The concert involving choirs and bands has been organised by Brookfield Community School in Sarisbury Green after pupils visited some South African schools last year as part of a music programme.

Strong friendships were forged as well as a musical partnership which will culminate in the concert on July 14 at The Anvil theatre in Basingstoke – chosen because it will allow the choirs to stay on stage for the entire evening.

Two-thirds of the 900 seats have been sold. The schools are also about half way to reaching the £18,000 needed to pay for the project after a number of fundraising activities by the pupils like car washing and cake selling.

Pupils believe the concert and the partnership with South African schools has already proved inspiring.

Tenor saxophone player and Year 10 pupil Lizzie Parkes went to South Africa with the school in March 2008.

The 15-year-old said: 'In South Africa they do so much more in life than we do. It's inspired me to work harder on my saxophone and in lessons.

'There's also a lot of excitement in getting ready for this concert.'

The South African students will stay for a week and will not only perform in the concert but help in lessons like geography and English at Brookfield and the six primary and junior schools.

Brookfield's director of learning, Shaun Riches, said: 'If pupils are doing a geography project on Africa or are studying African poems in English then you have experts on hand. We wanted to make sure the concert had an impact on the whole school community, so everybody will benefit from their visit.'

To buy tickets for the Global Voices concert call The Anvil box office on (01243) 844244.

THE LINE UP

The six Fareham primary schools taking part in the Global Voices concert are:

Park Gate Primary School
Locks Heath Junior School
Sarisbury CofE Junior School
Hook-with-Warsash CofE Primary School
St John the Baptist CofE Primary School
St Anthony's Catholic Primary School

>>> More pictures from the Global Music Showcase 2009

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  • Last Updated: 03 July 2009 2:34 PM
  • Source: The News
  • Location: Portsmouth
 
 

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