August 2023 – Concerts or Events

Judge: Barney Douglas

So, here we go again, and thank you so much for the invitation to adjudicate on a competition with entertainment at its heart.

I should explain that I come from an entertainment family background. My mother was a founder member and later a Life Fellow of the British Ballet Organisation, was the choreographer and troupe leader of the showgirls who worked at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing in the 1930s and into World War II, and, when I last checked, still holds the record for having the greatest number of former pupils, six in total, of any dancing school worldwide simultaneously as members of The Bluebell Girls at the Folies Bergères in Paris, set in 1953.

I trained as a dancer and actor, thwarted by a fairly serious injury in 1969, played with Worthing based pop group The Triad from 1968 to 1972, and country double act Whitewood in the late 1970s.

Once again I am taking the images in order of title and I’ll then pick my winners. Two images are in the highly commended group, and as I have mentioned before, a different judge on a different day and either of these two could be in contention for the places: