And didn’t we have fun.
“So we have an audience?”
We’re in the car park and it’s warm enough for us to get out of our cars and chat.
A few choir members and a few of our audience have arrived early because there was a little worry that the carnival at Prestwich might have held up the traffic. It didn’t. By 2.45 pm a solid choir and a very respectable audience have already assembled.
And there is plenty of cake. There is a mountain of cake. Making and eating cake is our second best activity after enjoying our singing.
This so reminds me of the Koffikonzerts I used to attend when we lived in Holland. You paid the price of a coffee and a slice of cake – usually apple cake in that case – and you got the coffee and cake as well as a very good concert.
So, £5.00 not bad for a brew, some cake and a concert?
The emphasis is on “friends and family” and it is all very relaxed.
We work through our repertoire which contains some old favourites like The Water is Wide, I Say a Little Prayer and Love is the Sweetest Thing. And there are also newer items such as Why Walk if You Can Fly, Make You Feel My love and O Earth Loving Mother. Of course we also think of nature with Cool Moon and Colours of the Wind.
Jeff tells our audience that we’re going to sing a couple of songs that might touch our troubled world. “It probably won’t make any difference to what you hear on the news,” he says. “But we hope it will do something.”
So, we also sing Deep Peace and Grant Us Peace. Both the door to the Studio and the outer door are open. Are these songs going out into the world? Will they make a difference?
An hour slips by without us noticing.
Our audience is lovely. It’s good to chat to them afterwards. Some of us are curious about how much people might enjoy listening to a choir like ours. We enjoy singing and I do like watching and listening to other choirs but part of the enjoyment of that comes from knowing what the process is.
“You get better every time,” says one of our visitors. We hope we do; it’s what we aim for.
Their daughter, one of our altos, rolls her eyes and says “They say that every time.”
“I think they mean it though,” I reply.
We are very pleased with the GoChurch studio as a place to rehearse and perform. It was such a fun concert.
And so what’s up next?
Buxton of course. Shall we see you there?
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