Rudsambee's concerts

Sunday 15 December: singing for a lovely wedding in Dalmahoy Church near Edinburgh.
Christmas 2002:

In the Royal Museum of Scotland: Sunday 1st December
In Rosslyn Chapel: Saturday 7th December - every seat sold
- Back in this beautiful venue after more than four years! Rosslyn Chapel is over 550 years old, famous for its extraordinary architecture and astonishing history, and a site of legend and mystery.
- All the proceeds of the concert - £630 - went to one of our singers, Sari Kontkanen, in support of her sponsored 100 km walk through the Sahara Desert in April 2003, to raise funds for the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres.
In Priestfield Church: Wednesday 11th December
- Priestfield Church is kind enough to let us use the hall for rehearsals whenever we need to and, in return, we always give a Christmas Concert. They use the funds raised to continue with the major external refurbishment of the church.
At Paxton House, Berwick-upon-Tweed: Saturday 14th December

a magnificent country house on the border midway between Edinburgh and Newcastle, which is also a partner gallery of the National Galleries of Scotland and home to seventy paintings from their collection

Saturday 21st Sept, Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh
- A polyglot evening featuring Danish, Welsh, Gaelic, Croatian, French, Bengali, Polish, Icelandic, Georgian, Scots and English, plus songs from Norway, Shetland, South Africa, the Isle of Man and Igulik.
Saturday 31st August, singing a set in Scottish Love In Action's "music and fun in the park" fund-raiser.

This is an Edinburgh-based charity which has built a home and school for 190 children, most of them orphans, in Tuni in South East India. They need £18,000 a year to keep the children fed, clothed and educated. On this one day, they raised £7,400.

Sunday 18th August, an afternoon concert in Dunbar Parish Church. We recorded our CD "bottled at source" here, and were delighted to be asked to sing in this beautiful church again.
From the 4th to the 9th of June, in Norway.
- Tuesday 4th to Thursday 6th in Stavanger, with a concert on the 6th jointly with Kammerkoret Cantemus in the Rogaland Kunstmuseum

Friday 7th to Sunday 9th in Arendal, for the Arendal Choral Festival - visiting our good friends the Liga av Sang og Munterhed, and singing in the public open-air concert in Kanalplassen on the Saturday and the concert in the Hove amphitheatre on the Sunday. Here are some photos and an article from Agderposten.

Saturday 1st June, Morningside Baptist Church, Holy Corner, 7.30pm: helping the church to raise funds for its refurbishment
Thursday 2nd May, in the Straiton IKEA just South of Edinburgh: singing in support of a collection by "Save the Children".
Saturday 16th March: singing in the mixed voice choirs class in the Coleraine Festival in Northern Ireland. After our disappointment in 2001 - see below - we were determined to get to Coleraine this year, and the three-day trip more than fulfilled our expectations. We had a great time in every way - and we won third prize. Then we recovered from the celebrations with a visit to the Giant's Causeway: