Message from Jim Morris

Admin@johnmorrisfoundation.com (USA Operations) — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:30:00 EST

We had a call at the USA offices via Skype from Jim Morris who wished to express his sincere thanks to all who either performed at ,helped with or attended the John Morris Tribute Concert on June 23 rd in Leeds England. Please see the actual text and transcript from that conversation below.We would also like to take this opportunity to personally thank all that made the show possible and we would like to re write Johns phrase purely for the purpose of this journal entry and it goes along the lines that you are all "Extraordinary People" , Who did "Extraordinary" things in an "Extraordinary place" on June 23 rd 2013 .

Mike , Connie , Rodney , Ian , Andy , Mel , Phil , Jude ,Danny and the many others ( you all know who you are )

Thank You All

"Having attended the rehearsals at Parkside church and experienced the start and the friendly atmosphere along with the warmth of fellowship I knew that the tribute concert was on safe ground and had expected it to be good.On Sunday night at Leeds town hall my expectations were surpassed.The programme was well thought out by the sequence of numbers all of which were sung with feeling and emotion and rather overwhelming at times . As john often said "You are all Stars " . The show was delivered to a professional standard.

It would be remiss of myself not to mention our American Friends who sang in the choir and those who attended purely to watch.

I would also like to thank the following and please forgive me if I have missed anybody out

PARKSIDE METHODIST CHURCH FOR MAKING THE FACILITIES READILY AVAILABLE TO US FOR REHEARSAL NIGHTS AND ALL DAY SATURDAY,ESPECIALLY RODNEY HILL FOR HIS INVALUABLE HELP BACKSTAGE AND ON THE DAY ,OF THE CONCERT AT LTH, HIS WIFE JEAN, AND CHRISTINE COOK FOR REFRESHMENTS AND A NEW TEABAG FOR THIS SPECIAL OCCASION

THREE CHURCH MEMBERS WHO SANG IN THE CONCERT. THE MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED THE CONCERT
ANNE DUNCOME FOR ASSISTING WITH BOOKING IN ALL THE REHEARSALS

David for his many hours of burning the midnight oil ( our time ) to get the show off the ground

Wendy , his wife for putting up with him.

Mike , the maestro with the baton and the Biro for the arrangement of the scores

Danny for front of house organisation and the numerous conversations we had

Mel for his tireless work at rehearsals and for his never to be forgotten solo performance of "bring him home"

Phil for being the anchor man in the UK with his partner Jude

Ian for assembling and organising the brilliant band

Connie for being Connie off stage and and for sparkling on it

Brian and Judes parents for accommodation and more

To all my family and friends for their support in attending the concert

A sincere thanks to all of you .......

" John and Eileen would have been very proud "

Jim Morris

After the Show

Admin@johnmorrisfoundation.com (USA Operations) — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 03:05:00 EST

Thank You All for your kind comments and for attending the John Morris Tribute concert be it participating , helping or performing at the event. There are so many of you that we want to reach out to and will do just that in due course.

We have today arrived in NYC on the QM2 and currently heading off to various destinations around the USA.

Within the next day or two we will be adding images of the Concert to this site and creating a download section where you will be able to either save or print the images taken and of course this is all completely free of charge as our thank you for attending and hopefully it will allow all to remember this rather special event.

If any of you have any special requests please be sure to use the contact tab on this site .

There will be a press release to follow .

John Morris UK Tribute Concert 2013 From johnmorrisfoundation.co.uk

Message from Jim Morris

After the Show