A great evening of live music for the Jazz night to help the fund for Ron Hockett…
Ron loved being in England and we loved his playing he always said how much he enjoyed playing with the Sole Bay Jazz Band on a Thursday evening, as you know Ron has to have a lung transplant and is now in the USA and all in all will cost a lot of money. something to be said about our NHS!
Ray has a letter from him that he read out and in due course I will print it on here in case you did not hear Ray reading it.
A good crowd of people many faces had not seen before, and maybe they will come again and join our merry ban of regulars, all to support Ron, and you did it with style…Some of you could not make it but sorry and hope all who were unable to come along because of ill health will soon recover…… you missed a great night.
So thanks to all who played, what a marvellous evening of live music and donating your money to the fund. All the money collected will go to Ron's fund. you all did great, loved your rendition Tim of Ron's favourite. Pianos /Trumpet/2 double Bass/ guitars /trombones/drums/clarinet/saxophones/ Nice to have so much talent in one place…again thank you all.
Tony J our dearest bass player managed to some along and play, thank you Tony you did great although you were not really fit, you are a treasure, hope you got home safe and sound and have a good rest today.
The raffle, well you outdid yourselves so thank you all for being so generous thanks of course to Christine and Clover, who did the raffle, great prizes as well, not enough to go around however all in a good cause. Thanks to Don and Jan for ticket folding…took ages didn't it!!
Thanks Tony for the DVD's lovely amount collected for them.
Thanks to all who donated in many ways all as I have said will be going to Ron's fund. No doubt Ray will let you all know how much was collected altogether next week.
I took some photos… have to apologise for flitting about but wanted to get as many as the band as I could, unlike Fudge who has a very clever phone that can take photos without the flash! she has a selection on FB.
So here goes…in no particular order…and hope I did not miss anyone!
2 comments:
A great night! Good luck, Ron, with the operation, followed by a swift and full recovery and more of your wonderful playing.
Thanks Son nice to have a comment, I do know people do look in but nice to have comments…
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