Grantham Music Club
Registered Charity 510311
About the Club
Grantham Music Club is a membership organisation. There are six main monthly concerts (October to March) each season. Concerts are held at ChristChurch Finkin Street, Grantham NG31 6QZ. The club welcomes new members.
Concert Locations
All concerts for the 2023/24 season are at ChristChurch, Finkin Street, Grantham NG31 6QZ
Parking, courtesy of Grantham Estates, is normally available in their Elmer Street Car Park on the right just north of Finkin Street. There is also paid parking available at the Conservative Club on Castlegate and on-street parking on Castlegate and Bluegate.
The Club AGM will precede the November Concert at 6:45pm at ChristChurch
A Short History of the Club
The Grantham Music Club began in 1929 with one hundred and sixty four members each paying a season's subscription of 18s 6d.
The meeting place has changed over the years from the Guildhall to the Westgate Hall, to the Cooperative Hall, to Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, to the King's School, back to KGGS, and then to the Priory Ruskin Academy, formerly Central School, Rushcliffe Road. And now most of our concerts are now performed in ChristChurch Finkin Street, with occasional concerts at St Wulfram's church..
Many names, famous in the musical world past and present, appear in the annals of the Club. Among them are Eileen Joyce, Sir Peter Pears, Lady Barbirolli, Leon Goossens, Jack Brymer, Joseph Cooper, Carlo Curley, Osian Ellis, Nicholas Daniel, Julius Drake, Richard Markham, Chilingirian Quartet, The Scholars, Cantamus, Brodowski Quartet, Red Priest and several members of the Kennah-Mason family.
Grantham Music Club continues to present concerts covering a wide range of musical tastes and performed by first-rate professional musicians. Our aim is to maintain the very high standards of past and present musical performance as well as the tradition of creating a welcoming atmosphere for all our members and other music lovers in our community.
Officers of the Club
President: Robert Jeffreys
Chairman: Elizabeth Bowskill
Vice-Chairman: Steve Potts
Hon Treasurer: Jackie Brooks
Hon Secretary: Maryan Nussey
Membership Secretary: Maurice Payne
The club acknowledges the generosity of our sponsors:
Pat Watson
Jupiter Asset Management
Maurice Payne
Pigott and Hall
and the support of:
Grantham Library
The Grantham Journal
Grantham Estates
The staff of the Guidhall Arts Centre
SKDC
ChristChurch, Finkin Street
Useful Links
The club is affiliated to:
Making Music - The National Federation of Music Societies
Music Link - fosters interest, participation and study of all kinds of music within Lincolnshire, making music more accessible and relevant to the community living in the area and forging links with sympathetic organisations both within the East Midlands area generally and elsewhere.
Other links
Grantham Concert Coach - the Royal Concert Hall Nottingham provides a free coach from the Grantham area to six of its Orchestral Concerts each season.
Grantham Choral Society has been rehearsing and performing concerts together for over 50 years. They perform major concerts organised with professional soloists and orchestra as well as a traditional Christmas Carol Concert each year.
The Philip Lank Trust seeks to enhance, safeguard and sustain the highest standards of sacred and secular choral and organ music at St Wulfram's and in the town of Grantham
The Grantham Music Festival is an annual event in which musicians in the town can perform in a friendly environment but in competition with their peers and in front of an expert adjudicator. Ages range from earliest school-age to senior citizens.