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Singing Farmers – It's another sell-out!
If you don't know about the Singing Farmers by now then where have you been for the past three and a bit years?
Over 1000 people had already bought tickets for the four shows to be held in March by the time we went to press with this issue – and only Tadcaster (Riley Smith Hall, Friday 23 March) had a handful left.
We have now raised over 60,000 for charity and another way we're adding to it is through sales of CDs.
Available at this year's concerts will be the latest, and Best Singing Farmers CD Ever! Can you tell where we get our marketing bits from?
It's the fourth CD to be released and features 3 songs from each of the individual singers – Tony Richards, Chris Berry, Charles Marwood, Ken Jackson and Phillip Holden, as well as the fantastic keyboard playing skills of everyone's favourite Lloyd Lockwood, and this year Lloyd also adds vocals to a number of the arrangements too!
This year's CD has lots of songs you will know and also features a fun song that borrows the tune from 'Sunny Afternoon' by the Kinks. You know the one – it starts 'The taxman's taken all my dough..' although we've substituted lots of words, notably 'Defra's taken all my dough..' and we've renamed it 'Song for Defra'. We'll be playing it at the concerts too and we've also been approached to sing it for the BBC for Red Nose Day!
If you would like a copy of the new CD please send a cheque to the value of 12, made payable to RABI, along with your name and address details to: Singing Farmers CD, 2 Elmete Croft, Scholes, Leeds LS15 4BE – the CDs will be available to buy from 10 March 2007 – so you might get to hear it even before the concert!
Welcome along to the RABI's new girls on the block!
Or perhaps that should be new girls in the field! As many readers will know Christine Andrews retired from her role with the RABI in January and her position has been filled by not one but two ladies – Sally Conner, who hails from an arable and pig farming background in the East Riding and Georgina Lamb, who is also from a farming family, running livestock and horses over in the West Riding.
Both girls will be at this years' Singing Farmers concerts and will be seen throughout the county and further afield at events throughout this year. Farming in Yorkshire and the Singing Farmers wish both Sally and Georgina every good wish as they take over from Christine – and of course we hope to see Christine at future Singing Farmers concerts!
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