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ello there,
Well, that was certainly a good day yesterday. From the comments that were heard from the audience, they really enjoyed the singing and the songs that we sang. There were several in the audience that had not come before, and their reaction was that they didn’t realise that a choir could sound so good live, and they especially like the harmonies that we produced.
A big thank you for all those that helped set the venue up, transported the equipment back and forth from the lock-up, looked after the front of house and behind the scenes in the kitchen, helped to clear up after which meant that we were finished by 10.00pm, and finally to you, our members for making the day worthwhile.
Now, looking forward, we have three concerts coming up, as follows:-
Tuesday, 13th, singing for the Halo club at KCC (where we held our summer concert), Hedge End. They would like us to start at 1.30pm, so we need to meet at 1.00 to 1.15 so we can get set up and seated ready to begin.
Friday, 16th at the Hamble Social Club, Beaulieu Road, Hamble (where we have been in the past), for the RAF Association. We have been asked to start at 1.15, so we need to be there for 12.45 to 1.00pm to set up etc.
The programme for both of these concerts will be as follows:-
Sing We Now of Christmas
Little Drummer boy
Once in Royal David’s City
Carol of the Bells
Follow the Star (if we have enough Tenors)
Away in a Manger
Good Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
O Come All Ye Faithful
Do you Hear What I Hear
Jingle Bell Rock
Hark! the Herald Angel Sing
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
We are then singing on Saturday, 17th, at the Royal Victoria Country Park for their Carol Service. The Carol Service will be starting at 7.00pm, so we need to be there for 6.00 to 6.15 so that we can sort out the chairs and have a sound check before the doors are opened at 6.30pm. We will be singing the following songs:-
Sing We Now of Christmas
Good Tidings of Comfort and Joy/Carol of the Bells
Do you Hear What I Hear
Grown Up Christmas List
White Winter Hymnal
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
We will also be singing the following carols:-
Once in Royal David’s City
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Away in a Manger
Good King Wenceslas
In the Bleak Mid Winter
Hark! the Herald Angel Sing
Silent Night
O Come All Ye Faithful.
Once we have received their programme, I will let you know the running order.
They require us to give them our registration numbers for our cars, so we will have a list out on Thursday’s rehearsal so that you can write your numbers down.
This coming Thursday, we will be rehearsing the songs and carols that we will be sing at RVCP on Saturday, and we will finish with some light refreshments, as this will be our last rehearsal before Christmas.
We then will be singing at the Fareham Towns Woman’s Guild on Wednesday, 21st December, but I will let you have more details about this nearer the time. We will be doing the same programme as we will have done for the RAF Association.
Well, that’s all for now, so look after yourselves in this cold weather we are having, and I will see you at one of the vents that we have coming up over the next week.
Bye for now.
Eric
boorley-carols-words.docx
RVCP-Carol-Songbook-2022.pdf