Eagley Band • Community Choir & Band • Chris Wormald (Conductor)

Saturday 15th October 2022 • 7.30pm

All Tickets £5.00

Organised by Bolton Rotarian Mr Graham Yardley and in the presence of Councillor Steven Chadwick, Mayor of Horwich, Rotary Clubs throughout Bolton are coming together to stage a gala centenary concert in the Victoria Hall to celebrate the town having had Rotary clubs throughout the borough for a century. Appropriately, the Victoria Hall concert will feature well known music from the last hundred years to be performed by Eagley Band, Community Choir and Community Band and their conductor Chris Wormald, who himself is celebrating his 40th year of conducting here in Bolton.

Music made famous by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, all the way through to Ed Sheeran will be featured, with a healthy contribution from musicals, musical films and musical theatre included; Singing In The Rain, Anything Goes, Autumn Leaves, The Continental, Always On My Mind, I Could Have Danced All Night, Let’s Face The Music & Dance, A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square right through to A Chorus Line.

There will also be a very special performance of ‘Mars’ from ‘The Planets’ by Gustav Holst which was composed in the years leading up to 1922 and one of the most popular pieces of ‘live’ music performed throughout the last 100 years.

The concert will commence at 7.30pm and finish at 9.40pm. All profits from the evening are to go to Rotary Charities.