WATCH OUT FOR THE NEXT FASHION SHOW AND SALE ON
FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER AT 7 PM IN FAIRBURN COMMUNITY CENTRE
Once again there was a Summer Fashion Show and Sale on 20 June 2025. Another evening of fun, fashion and – oh such good bargains. This raised £600 which will go towards our charities for 2025. Well done everyone who helped in any way.
Click on the photo of the youngest of our 8 models to see all the others.
As ever, a huge thank-you also goes to Max who co-ordinates the outfits and dresses the models and Janet, who works tirelessly all year round to collect the items for sale.
The concert held in the Eversley Park Centre in Sherburn on 11 July was on one of the hottest nights of the year – so far! But that didn’t stop the children from excelling in their enthusiastic performance. One very special song had been written by the children themselves. Entitled The Fairburn Song, it is all about the village in which they live and reflects the school’s ethos, which is to involve the children as much as possible in village life and understand and care for Fairburn.
Click here to listen to a recording of the song.
The very popular Summer concert will be a little different this year. We are joined by 2 guests. The first is a Composer and Pianist from Latvia, who has written a piece of music about Gaia – the personification of the Earth. Our second guest is Anthony Thompson – local Trumpeter who joined us at Selby Abbey, we enjoined the collaboration so much, we’re looking forward to singing with him again.
Eriks Eglītis, a composer from Riga, whom we have worked with before, asked Fairburn Singers, 3 years ago, if anyone would like to write some words for a new work. A member of the Choir, Helen DeVoy, initially wrote a poem about Gaia (the birth of the universe). This poem was then set to music by Eriks. This will be the first time it is performed in public! There are exhibitions about Gaia, the beginnings of the world, in many locations around the country throughout this year and this is our version.
Anthony Thompson is another talented musician with 25-years’ experience. He began his musical training at The Salvation Army in Castleford, progressing through a music scholarship to Ackworth School and Hull University, where he graduated with an Honours Degree in Music. He is one of the busiest trumpeters in the North of England.