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BMG Festival & Rally 2010 5th - 7th March 2010 Edgbaston High School for Girls, Birmingham Hosted by Midlands Fretted Orchestra
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Edgbaston High School is a lovely venue; this is a private girls school with excellent facilities, situated a mile and a half from the city centre of Birmingham in the leafy suburb of Edgbaston. Its neighbour on Westbourne Road is the Birmingham Botanical Gardens and visitors should follow the brown signs to this attraction to find the School next door.
We have reserved a limited number of bedrooms, so we strongly recommend that you book your room as soon as possible. It's The Apollo Hotel, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. B16 9RA telephone 0121 455 0271 Please quote “BMG Federation Rally” when you book your room, a deposit of £20 will be taken by the hotel to reserve your accommodation.
Room rates: Twin/Double for two nights £110.00
(there are also some family rooms for 3 or 4 people available; the rate
for these rooms will be as above plus £15.00 for the third / fourth
person.) All room rates include Full English Breakfast. NB Please confirm your rate with the hotel upon making your reservation, any queries regarding accommodation etc should be dealt with by Christina at the Apollo Hotel . MFO Rally organisers contact numbers: Friday Evening Concert The Friday night concert will feature guitar legend Gordon Giltrap. Gordon has worked with an amazingly broad range of artists, from rock musicians such as Brian May, Rick Wakeman and Midge Uret o the jazz virtuoso Martin Taylor the classical guitarist Raymond Burley and the London Symphony Orchestra. In 1996, Gordon realised a dream of playing guitar alongside Cliff Richard on stage in Cliff's West End musical Heathcliff. He has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award and has just been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Saturday 6th March Workshops
Click here to see the working programme
for both days
Click here to download
the working programme
for both days
Banjo Mandolin Bluegrass
MFYO: Please note we withhold the right to alter workshops or tutors if necessary We have arranged for our Saturday evening meal and the proceeding open stage event to be held in the function suite at the Apollo Hotel. Click here for directions and map Click here to download map and directions
On Sunday 7th March
there will be solo, duo, trio, quartet/quintet,
ensemble and orchestra contests for fretted instruments. The syllabus of
contests, rules and conditions and application form may be download via the links below.
Click here to see the working programme for both days Click here to download working programme for both days Click on the PDF logo to download:
Sponsorship
Rally sponsor:
Hobgoblin Music
Programme sponsor: Clifford
Essex Music Co.
Hobgoblin Music
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