Fiver's Challenge (From Stroud News and Journal)

Fiver's Challenge

FIVE Year Ten Marling Boys, whose recently formed jazz band, Blueberry Pie, performed a concert in aid of the Cotswold Care Hospice on November 23, have raised over £500 for the charity.

The jazz concert took place in the Amberley Parish Rooms and was organised by two members of the band, Theo Vigden and George Sandilands, as part of the Cotswold Care Hospice's Fivers Challenge.

The aim of the Fivers Challenge is to get Gloucestershire schoolchildren to take a £5 note and use 'their talents, ingenuity and hard work' to increase the value of the entrusted money and return it and all monies raised to the Hospice.

"One of the fundraising directors from the Hospice saw the advert in the SNJ," said George, "and came along for the show. He said he was very impressed, and was amazed to learn that the whole concert was arranged on only two of the fivers!"

Blueberry Pie, whose debut concert this was, are comprised of Konrad Snow on bass, Morgan Pickering on trombone, Theo Vigden on piano and vocals, George Sandilands on alto saxophone and James Pemberton on guitar.

The band were also joined on the night by guest musicians - Mark McIntosh on guitar and Nikil Patel on digeridoo.

"We'd really like to thank everyone who came along and made the show such a success," added Theo.

For details of other musical events in the Stroud area, see the SNJ.