Well it is normally, this year not quite so much! I hope you can all enjoy it as much as you can, different from other years but we have to get on with it the best we can.
I have a little treat for you our very own Chris Allison Singing “Grown Up Christmas List”. Quite poignant after the year we have all had. He recorded it as a learning aid for Sing4Fun his other choir and I thought he would not mind me sharing it with you all.
We do not have any birthdays during the rest of 2020 but if you know someone I hope that they can have a good birthday.
I hope you all managed to watch ‘New Music Makers – Virtual Christmas Concert.’
The last time I looked there had been 523 Views. Wow isn’t that amazing???
Just in case you were not one of the 523 here is the Link again
Many thanks for Lillian and Chris for preparing the backing tracks to all of the songs the piano accompaniment and conducting videos. And also to Lillian for putting the whole Concert together and lets not forget those choir members that contributed videos towards the Concert.
I sent the link out to past members and friends of the choir and have had lots of lovely replies back. Amongst them was Mariane Temperley wanting to send best wishes to everyone. Mary Gunn said it was lovely to see us all looking so well. Frank and Sally Parker wished us Every Blessing For Christmas and New Year. I met Adrienne Bath in Lidl and she wanted to be remembered to everyone.
Lets hope we will be able to see them all at our Live Concerts in the not too distant future.
I know lots of people donated to Macmillan which was brilliant, unfortunately we are unable to know the exact figure as it all gets lumped together but they did say that they had had lots of donations since our video went live. If we ever do this again we will look into a different way of donating.
Lillian has been posting a ‘ Christmas Countdown’ releasing one song on our facebook page up until Christmas. These include some of our choir members who were not in the original virtual concert, so something new for you to see. They are very professional and sound amazing. Lillian has sent me some of the links for non facebookers to watch.
Thanks again Lillian for doing these they are brilliant.