Our past Events

EVENTS IN 2024

Pymble Players 14 March 2024 – The White Sheep of the Family

Thanks to the many of you who supported us and came along to our first fund raising event of the year – “The White Sheep of the Family”.
It was a lot of fun. Pymble Players always put on a very good show and they did not let us down with this work.
It’s so refreshing to see and meet the new actors young and old, and re-meet those that we know already.

We thank Pymble Players for their ongoing support – you can, of course, go directly to their web site to see if other plays interest you:
https://pymbleplayers.com.au

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Thanks as always to our wonderful sponsors on the night Tambulaine Organic Wines and Lindt Chocolates.

We would also like to acknowledge and thank our wonderful new sponsor 2MBS FM Fine Music who will be promoting all our events this year

Events IN 2023

Annual Christmas Lunch Friday 8th December 2023 – NSW Parliament House, Strangers Dining Room

The Strangers’ is such a beautiful room with a glorious view out over the Domain to the Art Gallery. On Friday there was a special ambience around the room, with lots of chat going on and friendships being made and rekindled. Everyone dressed in their Christmas colours and happy to be in the air-conditioned comfort on such a hot hot day.

Nancye Hayes was spectacular. She has led such an amazing life and has such a great sense of fun and humour. Her “friends” Tony Sheldon and Michael Tyack tried to steal the show but it was hers for the keeping.

The random guest who was called on to audition for the choir was none other than “our” James Martin. His rendition of Stille Nacht will remain a special lasting memory of a highly successful and joyful event. James is an operatic baritone presently living overseas who regularly returns at Christmas time to visit his parents, Judi (a member of our SOHLC) and Warren Martin. This is the second Christmas that James has entranced us with his beautiful singing of much-loved Christmas music.

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Just for fun – you can also click here to see some videos

Once again – so many thanks to our many wonderful sponsors for providing such an array of amazing prizes as well as the wine we enjoyed and the chocolates we ate. Please remember all these wonderful businesses when you have a need for some of their products.

Lindt Chocolates, Akasha Brewing Co, Noonan’s Pearls and Gems, Sydney Opera House, Dymocks Literary Luncheon, Berrima Bakehouse Motel, Cremorne Orpheum, Hayes Theatre Company and Tamburlaine Organic Wine

Tuesday 19 September 2023 – 50th birthday celebration plus our 66th year of fundraising – Yallamundi Rooms Sydney Opera House.

It was such a wonderful event and so close to a SELL OUT. The food was delicious and the company and ambience so special. The room is also amazing with that spectacular view. Of course, who will ever forget that Voice! From Toreador to the beautiful Maori lullaby via Botany Bay and Gundagai, Teddy Tahu Rhodes lead us down a beautiful path! And Guy Noble’s ditty to the Sydney Opera House Ladies Committee deserves recording!!

We should not let it be forgotten, as Carolyn so aptly put it, that we sang at the Sydney Opera House with Teddy Tahu Rhodes to celebrate the 50^th birthday of the Opera House.

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As always – so many thanks to our amazing sponsors for providing such amazing prizes and options for the Raffles and Silent Auctions.

Sydney Opera House, Ross Garden Tours Jacaranda Cruise, Lindt Chocolates, Trippas White Group, Accomodation Taronga Zoo, Akasha Brewing Co, Noonan’s Pearls and Gems, Douglas Pereira and The Australian Ballet

Friday 14 July 2023 – Bastille Day Luncheon – Women’s Club, Level 4, 179 Elizabeth St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Ooh la la – what a wonderful luncheon. Everyone resplendent in red, white and blue. Lots of berets, lots of stripes, some beautiful scarves and blazers and just a subtle tinge of perfume.

Not to mention the ambience and chat around the room. On top of that the food was delicious.

Simon Kenway and Tanith Bryce provided wonderful entertainment, and who could forget the Les Miserables sing-along. a Fabulous day

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Many thanks to our amazing sponsors and generous supporters for helping provide such a varied array of prizes for our Raffles and Silent Auctions. Including:-

Frenchy’s Cafe and the Sydney Opera House

Coronation and Mothers Day Lunch 2023 at the Womens Club.

The food was delicious, the entertainment was charming and as well John provided us with costumes to dress up.

It was a fun day. You can see the photos here.

Once again we couldn’t do this without the generosity of our wonderful supporters and sponsors, including

Akasha Brewing,

Pymble Players 2023

Once again, a wonderful play at the Pymble Players. “Things I Know to Be True” was an outstanding Australian play that left the audience thinking. The acting was top.

Sparkling wine on arrive and an enjoyable supper at interval made the evening. The actors were very generous talking to the audience after the event about their acting and background.

Photos can be seen at this link.

St Patrick’s Day 2023 at the Royal Automobile Club in Macquarie Street.

There was such beautiful ambience on arrival with music performed by Bob McInnes and Rhonda Langford OAM. Followed by some wonderful Irish Dancing.

Throughout the gorgeous Victoria Room, there was more than a splash of green , with most guests sporting their finest greens.

Please click here to see some photos from the day, and please click here to see a video of the dance

Many thanks to our amazing sponsors and generous supporters for helping provide such a varied array of prizes for our Raffles and Silent Auctions. Including:-

Akasha Brewing, Mercantile Hotel, Sydney Opera House

Events IN 2022

Annual Christmas Luncheon – 1st December 2022

What a wonderful lunch was had by all. It was an absolute treat to enter the room to the sound of a lovely selection of Christmas and other music, courtesy of our own Janet Bagnall.

Simon Kenway, Rob McDougall and Dr Narelle Yeo lifted our spirits with beautiful songs to kick off our lunch and led us in Christmas carols at the end

Ronn Kahn – provided us with much food for thought of wastage and need right here in our own city.

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Many thanks to our amazing sponsors for their assistance with prizes, raffles and and Silent Auction items

Akasha Brewing, Cremorne Orpheum, Dymocks Literary Events Club, Harvey Norman, Lindt Chocolates, Moët & Chandon, Sydney Opera House, Shane Tiernan for Rimrock retreat Palm Beach, Rosemary Noonan for the freshwater pearl necklace and earrings and Razorhurst Walking Tour

Faulty Towers Dining Experience – Castlereagh Boutique Hotel – 23rd September 2022

A magic night of frivolity with a touch of the ridiculous, as we remembered all the episodes of the original shows condensed into a single night of fun.

Coupled with wonderful food – at the beautiful Cellos restaurant. It was an enjoyable evening for all

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Many thanks to our wonderful sponsors Lindt Chocolates for their generosity with the prizes

Lunch with Mr Darcy – Yallamundi Rooms, SOH – 14th July 2022

We dived into the delicious literature of Jane Austen with a playlet about Elizabeth and Darcy by Penny Gay. A wonderful cast directed by Aarne Neeme AM. We enjoyed excellent food provided by Trippas White Group. Combined with magical period music provided by our very own Janet Bagnel.

Please click here to see some photos of this wonderful lunch.

Many thanks to our sponsors for our wonderful prizes
Harvey Norman
Berrima Bakehouse Motel
Jacaranda cruise via Rosstours
Penny Gay

For details of the actors see below. Unfortunately, Matilda Ridgeway was not able to perform at the last minute, and Eloise Winestock was our Elizabeth Bennet. Eloise is a graduate of the acting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAPA) where, coincidentally, our play reading Director Aarne Neeme was one of her teachers. She has a particular interest in Shakespeare and has fond memories of performing at the Sydney Opera House for Bell Shakeseare’s Henry V and The Tempest (John Bell’s farewell production). In 2013 Eloise won a Sydney Theatre Award for a Best Supporting Role in Sport For Jove’s production of The Comedy of Errors and has recently completed a repertory season performing in Macbeth and Othello for the same company .

Pymble Players Moonlight and Magnolias – Matinee Sunday 26 June 2022

We are never let down by a performance at the Pymble Players.

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Directed by: Joy Sweeney

Legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick has a problem. Five weeks into shooting Gone with the Wind he has fired a clueless director and the script needs to be completely rewritten in 5 days or the production will shut down! The writer he wants has never read the novel. The replacement director has to be called away from the set of The Wizard of Oz.

An hilarious insight into the five madcap days that brought a Hollywood classic to the screen.

Our wonderful Ladies Committee put on a sumptuous feast for afternoon tea at interval. “We’ll never be hungry again”.

Thank you also to our sponsors Lindt Chocolate and Moët & Chandon – who helped with the raffle prizes.

The Platinum Jubilee Mothers Day Sparkling High Tea – 11th May 2022

Such a wonderful High Tea. Everyone enjoyed the surprise when the chef delivered an exciting stand which then steamed clouds.

Thank you to Pacific Opera for providing such wonderful performers: Mikayla Tate, Gavin Brown and Bradley Gilchrist. You can see a snippet of their performance at: Mikayla, Gavin and Bradley Performing at High Tea.

Thank you to our sponspors for their wonderful prizes:

Flight Experience

Roar and Snore at Taronga Zoo

Moët & Chandon

Bundanoon Country Inn

You can see a selection of photos at Photos for Platinum Jubilee Mothers Day Sparkling High Tea

Yum Cha – The Palace Restaurant. – 19th March 2022

It was wonderful to catch up with old friends and new. A fabulous time was had by all with an abundance of delicious food. Our date coincided wonderfully with the 90th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The Bridge Quiz was created by our very own Carolyn Lowry AO who also wrote and lead us in the Bridge Song. Also who could forget the competitive sing off – go Table 6!

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And click here for memories of the song and the sing-off for the winner of the Bridge quiz!

The raffle and bridge quiz prizes, of the bottles of Moet Champagne and boxes of Lindt Chocolate, were kindly provided by our generous sponsors.

Pymble Players Building Blocks – 10th February 2022

We are never let down by a performance at the Pymble Players.

This time a quirky play about a dodgy builder. And who hasn’t experienced one or two of those in the past.

Our wonderful sponsors Lindt Chocolate and Moët & Chandon – helped with Door as well as the Lucky Seat prizes

Events in 2021

Christmas Luncheon at Four Seasons Hotel 3rd December 2021

A fabulous and very successful Christmas Luncheon was held in the Ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel. It was attended by our patron, Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, as well as the CEO of the Sydney Opera House Louise Herron.

Also after 10 years at the helm Jan Kneeshaw stepped down as President and introduced Michelle Feehan as the new President of our committee

Please click here to see some colourful photos from this event

Please click here to see and hear the wonderful performances by Julie Lea Goodwin and Guy Noble. Note that you are able to select a particular performance or carol should you wish. Once again many thanks for this videography to

VIDEOGRAPHY
DAVID MADDOCK – CEO at ‘Music To You’
www.musictoyou.com.au
david@musictoyou.com.au

Pymble Players – Blithe Spirit – June 16th 2021

A classic tale of the blurring of the afterlife with real life

Mothers Day 29th April 2021

A wonderful lunch and entertainment was enjoyed in the beautiful ballroom of the Castlereagh Boutique Hotel.

Glorious entertainment was provided by Cabaret Sensation Meredith O’Reilly accompanied by Pianist and Composer John Martin

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Pymble Players – A Pack of Lies – March 11

A wonderful nights entertainment, based on a true story of espionage. Set in London during the cold war.

events in 2020

Christmas Luncheon in The Ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel. 3 December 2020

The Kevinwood Handbell ringers and tenor, Brad Cooper entertained a record number of guests.

Please click here to see the video of the introduction followed by the performance by the Kevinwood Handbell Ringers, an ensemble of the Kevinwood Orchestra of Eastwood.

Please click here to see and hear the amazing Australian tenor Brad Cooper

Please click here to watch the video of the handing over of the cheque to the Sydney Opera House representative, with speeches and presentations by our treasurer Sandra Bartels as well as the two Janelles from the House describing some of the access programs, followed by the raffles

Many thanks for the videography to

VIDEOGRAPHY
DAVID MADDOCK – CEO at ‘Music To You’
www.musictoyou.com.au
david@musictoyou.com.au

Events in 2019

High Tea in The Strangers Dining Room, NSW Parliament House. 26th September 2019

Sparkling High Tea with Liesl Tesch AM, BSc, MP (speaker) and Hon. Jonathan O’Dea BA, LLM, MBA MP (host).

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“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t met”. William Butler Yeat – Poet

Diva Delights – Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House – 2 August 2019

with Valda Wilson (soprano) and Jonathan Wilson (pianist)

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The Women’s club – 2 May 2019

Professor the Hon. Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO was guest speaker

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Yum Cha at The Palace Chinese Restaurant – 23 March 2019

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Reception at NSW Government House – 5 March 2019. Our patron, Her Excellency, Mrs Linda Hurley, wife of then Governor of New South Wales, held a Cocktail Party for Committee members, long-time supporters and sponsors at NSW Government House. The Army Band played, Kamahl AM sang to the accompaniment of Michael Hope on the piano and Mrs Linda Hurley dedicated her song to the Committee.

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events in 2018

A Dickens Christmas at the Sir Stamford Hotel – 6 December 2018. Featured Peter Carroll reading “A Christmas Carol” by Dickens with associated artists, including Kamal and Mrs Linda Hurley.

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Pymble Players – Quartet – 24th October 2018

Three former opera singers, have a companionable existence at the retirement home for musical artists.

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Songs for Spring Lunch at the Women’s Club 5 September 2018

with Cheryl Barker (soprano) and Simon Kenway (pianist)- 11 April 2018

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John Bell AO OBE in the Utzon Room – 11 April 2018

Lunch accompanied by Bridget Bolliger (flautist) and Jane Rosenson (harpist)

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Events in 2017

A Dickens Christmas at the Sir Stamford Hotel – 6 December 2017. Special guest actress Penny Cook in the presence of our new Patron, Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, Lara Winsbury, Amelia Farrugia and Brad Cooper, Geoffrey Chard, with Michael Hope (piano) Carol sheets

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“Music in the Secret Spring Garden” 29 October 2017.

Two talented musicians, Emanuel Lieberfreund and Siegfried Mirza are well known and loved by Sydneysiders. We heard some classical, jazz, standard Latin, African, rock and eastern music

A glorious garden party at the home in St Ives of Agnes from the SOHL Committee.

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