Pride of Guernsey: 'Ambassador for the performing arts'
MANY skills and the energy to deploy them is why Marilyn Pugh is being nominated for the Moonpig-sponsored Arts Contribution of the Year Award.
'Not only is she an ambassador for the performing arts in the island,' explained nominator Michael Sullivan, 'but she also finds the time to run two community choirs in both Guernsey and Alderney, is the musical director of Evoke Productions, organised the performance of HMS Pinafore and every concert she has organised is always for charity.'
This together with past involvement in the Guernsey Gang Shows, being head of music at the Grammar School, where she led the orchestra for many a theatrical production – including Les Miserables in 2003 – and being a well-regarded and much-loved music teacher, as well as a mother of two, shows that Marilyn has many strings to her bow.
Mr Sullivan believes Marilyn should win the award because she embraces all she does enthusiastically, professionally and unselfishly.
'She does this not because she has to, but because she wants to.
'I am proud to know and work with Marilyn and I can think of no other more deserving of this award.'
