Music mania!!!!!!!!

people keep ringing up asking when we are playing so am going to put it on the blog: Last Friday of every month 9pm Harbour Inn, Solva - lots of local musicians joining in: 30th June Lavender Cafe including supper for Pembrokeshire Fish Week £15 for two courses and music: 4th July Pembroke Festival; 14th August Fishguard Arts Society at Tregwynt Mansion - wonderful setting and party atmosphere; end August Aberjazz (see www.aberjazz.com) plus salsa workshop over the weekend; 4th September Small World Theatre.

There may be other bits but not sure yet. Come along and enjoy. Contact 01437 721907 for more details. Tickets for Tregwynt Mansion from Seaways Bookshop in Fishguard or Raul Speek Gallery Solva.

Cathedral Concert

I am so pleased. My concert went really well and after ten years of working on the music it was like a dream come true. We recorded and filmed it too so I have the memory fresh before me every day if I want it. Many of our friends came and it felt great to be able to say how much living in Pembrokeshire means to me and how happy I have been here. The accousitcs in the Cathedral were amazing - the trumpet and saxophone sounded wonderful as their music drifted up towards the high vaulted ceiling. This is a picture from the rehearsal where you can see Jon Turner my music mentor without whom all this would never have grown to fruition. He arranged the filming too and did the editing of that afterwards.

Talk on Indian and Asian Architecture

Setting this talk up today and trying to get the sound stuff working right so that we can record what Ian Mc Donald says. Could do with more room at the Gallery really as have to take eveything to pieces every time we do a talk or anything audio-visual. Lot coming up to as you can see from below

5th August 2009 Ian McDonald Circling the Square – How Japan Broke the Grid. Audio visual evening on Japanese Architecture being held at Raul Speek Gallery, Solva. 7 for 7.30 Including glass of wine and light refreshments. £3 entrance fee. Tel 01437 721907 for details

19th August 2009 Raul Speek A Child of the Revolution. Audio visual evening at Raul Speek Gallery, Solva including showing of video made by The Slate ‘A Long Journey Home’. Entrance fee £3. 7 for 7.30 includes glass of wine and light refreshments. Tel 01437 721907 for details.

ARTists Pembrokeshire – Summer Exhibition featuring 3 Solva artists in the Tower and Café at Oriel y Parc. Heather Bennett Photographer, Ian McDonald Print maker and Raul Speek Artist. 14th July to 28th August 2009 9.30am to 5.30pm. Contact Oriel y Parc on 720392 for details.

September 19th 2009 at 7.30pm. at St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. ‘Pembrokeshire Weather Report’ Concert for Piano and other Voices composed and performed by Raul Speek (A Cuban in Wales). Contact 01437 721907 or email raul@raulspeek.co.uk for bookings and details.

Of course the one I am looking forward to is playing my semi-calssical piano piece in the Cathedral. Dream of a lifetime.