PRESTON & DISTRICT CONCERT SECRETARIES FEDERATION Entertaining Preston since 1958

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SECRETARY MRS ANN BRETHERTON Tel 01772 460784/07847394330

Hello everyone out there and welcome to the April Guild Book,which I hope you find interesting and to plan your nights out at your favourite Clubs.February's Meeting and Showcase was held at The very welcoming Royal British Legion Club at Lostock Hall. At the meeting we had just one absentee and must thank ALL the other Clubs for attending,as previously mentioned,these meetings are important because decisions and voting are involved. At the Showcase our fantastic Secretary Ann produced the show with 3 artists,first up was Kelvin.J.Woods whom has done a previous showcase for us and is a very good Vocal/Entertainer he sang some new and not so new songs and some banter in between all in all he gave us a solid performance and got some well deserved future bookings,next up was a lovely lady Claire Blackburn whom showed some experience in her act a nice half hour of entertainment from her and went down really well with the almost capacity audience at this popular venue,Last act was another "sparkling" Young Lady,Claire Racheal who again has appeared previously she gave us a really good "turn" and again pleased the crowd with a mixed bag of numbers which were sang very professionally All in all a very good Showcase,thanks must go to OUR ERIC compere and vocalist, Con Sec LINDA for organising everything from,the wonderful buffet provided and organising the raffle machine thanks Linda ,the two very efficient bar servers, and the rest of the Legion commitee for providing a nice afternoon at the Club.

BEST REGARDS MICK

SHOWCASE ATTENDENCE LEAGUE

Acregate L.C 2 Lostock Hall.R.B.L. 2
Bamber Bridge Cath. 2 Penwortham S&S 2
Deepdale S&S 2 St.Anthony's 0
Empire Services 1 St Gerard's 2
Farington Cob Club. 2 St Gregory's 2
Neadow St,L,C. 2 Wilbraham Club. 2
Eccleston W.M.C. 2

COMMAND SHOW HELD AT BAMBER BRIDGE CATHOLIC CLUB ON 14th NOVEMBER 2025.
Our annual Command Show held at the extraordinary concert room at B B C C where the near capacity audience enjoyed a night to remember. the awful weather on the night didn't deter the clubgoers from the event,it must have one of the best performance stages in the North West. To begin the show right on Time was our very own Compere and singer ERIC JONES after a couple of songs he introduced the first Act, REBECCA the best Female act of the year, a well established lady whom gave us a "Whirlwind" Performance including the likes of Cher and Celine Dion she went down a real treat with cheers and applause from all a great vocalist and personality to boot. Second act was PHIL RICHMOND another fantastic well known performer who won the Best Male of the year,he at once said How Do I Follow that meaning REBECCA,well he didn't fail giving us a great rrendition of mostly well known numbers,A great performance again from a wonderfull man Well done PHIL. That took us to the Interval in which we had a succesfull raffle run bye our two regular volunteers PAM & FLO Thanks Girls.with bottles of Wine and Spirits kindly donated by our member clubs Many Thanks For those efforts.Then we had the Presentation of Trophies to the Four Winning Acts, Well then the Second Half began with vocal/instrumentilist winner JOHMMY.B who gave us another Great performance with his cracking voice and keyboard playing with a great list of mostly familier songs Well done JOHNNY. The forth and last act was played by Duo/Group winners MACSEN a father & son act who both vocalised and played guitars which produced a great sound they came from North Wales in the horrible weather which deserves praise alone. CAME 11.30pm and the show was over bearing in mind praise must go to all concerned with the HOST CLUB,,DEREK BAILEY for his lighting and impresive On stage graphics WOW,also the rest of the Commitee for allowing us the venue,it's the second time that they have hosted this Prime Event and here's hoping for many mote to come.Last but not least thank you to the excellent bar service run by K.Farrington and Paula Birch. To all that attended the show we at the Federation hope that you enjoyed the event and Many Thanks please keep supporting YOUR CLUBS and we can look forward to nights out like this in the future and don't forget OUR SHOWCASES held at the end of every month pn Sunday afternoons troughout the year at various venues. BEST REGARDS MICK & ALL THE EXEC COMMITEE.