GREAT WAR CONCERT TONIGHT at 7:30 pm

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The Dinner portion of the evening is sold out - we have only limited space in the downstairs hall to seat and serve people.
Upstairs, however, there is more room - and there will likely be room for you to join us for the CONCERT portion of the evening.
Singer ALIX KINGSTON will be performing songs from the First World War era - sad songs, patriotic songs, funny songs, a slightly racy song....
She will be accompanied by DONNA DUNN-ALBERT on keyboard.
You will learn some context of the songs - and be invited to sing along at times.
Tickets are $10 at the door.
We hope you can join us - Upstairs at the Memorial Hall, 34 Main Street South, St. George, Saturday, July 26th, 2014 at 7:30 pm.
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Here is a list to give you an idea of some of the songs of the era:

A Bicycle Built for two

The Bells are Ringing (for me and my gal)

Take me out to the ballgame

Carolina in the Morning

I Belong To Glascow

We’ll meet again

It had to be you

I’ll never smile again

White Cliffs of Dover

Pack up your troubles

It’s a long way to Tipperary

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Shine on Harvest Moon

I’m just Wild about Harry

Toot, Toot, Tootsi

Hello, my Baby

Oh, you Beautiful Doll

Five foot two, Eyes of blue

My Old Man

Hold your Hand Out

Tea for Two, and Two for Tea

A Nightengale Sang in Barkley Square

K-K-K Katy/Kiss Me

Hinky-Dinky Parly Voo

Lili Marlene

When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again

Over There

Wish me Luck

 

Bless ‘em All

When you hear Big Ben

Keep the Home fires burning

I’m looking for a four leaf clover

Maple Leaf Forever

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GREAT WAR COMMEMORATION DINNER AND CONCERT JULY 26

A dinner and cabaret-style concert commemorating the beginning of the Great War (1914-1918) will be presented by the South Dumfries Historical Society on Saturday, July 26th.

The event will be held at the St. George Memorial Hall at 34 Main St. S. in downtown St. George.

A buffet-style roast beef dinner will be served at 6 p.m.

Dinner will include a presentation by Expositor journalist Vincent Ball, who will read excerpts from his First World War-themed play entitled “Doing Our Bit.”

The cabaret-style concert featuring First World War-era music will follow at 7:30 p.m.

Singer Alix Kingston will perform songs from the era, provide historical context and lead some sing-alongs (lyrics provided).

Tickets for dinner and concert are $20 each, with seating limited to 50.

 

Tickets for the concert only are $10 each - and there is much more room upstairs.

Tickets are available from any South Dumfries Historical Society board member, by calling Deb Andre at 519-448-1889, or at the museum at 36 Main St. S. in St. George.

 

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·         THE ST.GEORGE and COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HALL

“This building was presented in memory of Salem Griswold Kitchen by his wife and was remodeled by the citizens as a Memorial to the Soldiers who fought the the Great War'

On the 20th day of August 1925 both the Memorial Plaque and the Hall where unveiled and dedicated by His Hon. Harry Cockshutt, Lieut-Governor of Ontario (1921-1927).

This makes the St.George and Community Memorial Hall the oldest Memorial to the soldiers of the Great War (WW1) in the Brant County and Brantford areas.

It was followed the next year (1926) by the St.George Memorial Park and Cenotaph then the Paris Cenotaph in 1929 and then the Brant War Memorial in 1933.

So it is rather fitting that the first event in our area of Remembrance to mark the start of the First World War is being held in the areas first memorial.

Those from St.George, South Dumfries and Surrounding Area Who Gave
The Supreme Sacrifice in WWI 1914-1918:

Armstrong, Walter 7/4/1919 age 22

Beattie, Harold 5/4/1917 age 21

Fields, Cecil 2/9/1918 age 20

Johns, Edward

Kenny, James

Murphy, John 10/08/1918 age 21

McKenzie, Stewart

Patten, Edgar 26/10/1917 Passchendaele age 26

Patten, Bertram MM 9/11/1917 age 25

Reinhard, Howard 8/8/1918 age 21

Ryan, William

Sass, Rudolph 22/11/1916 age 21

Sickler, Pte

Tolhurst, Freeman MM 9/8/1918 age 25

Tucker, Gordon 27/9/1918 age 21

Willits, John 3/5/1917 age 37

Wilson, Henry

Woods, John