What I am singing these days!

I belong to a choir. I might have mentioned this before. It's a community choir (no auditions) and sing anything from pop to folk and world. Yesterday was rehearsal day. We are working towards our end of term concert as well as a few Christmas appearances for charity. So we are learning two carols - In The Bleak Mid Winter and Quem Pastores Laudavere (close to the John Rutter arrangement). I do rather like singing in Latin, or in fact German. I find them easier than French.

We shall have one major rehearsal just singing Christmas carols before we do our spots at Waterloo Station and around Kingston in December.

Our end of term concert is also for charity. We will sing in the cafe of The Rose Theatre, Kingston, but this concert isn't just about Christmas as we will sing other things too.Our MD has done a wonderful arrangement of the Killer's Human. We sing it slower than the Killer's and our version has four parts. It makes for a very complex song and yesterday we managed to sing through the whole piece which was an achievement! We don't as yet have the final list of song we shall sing at the concert but they will include Queen's You're My Best Friend, Do You Hear the People Sing (from Les Miserables), Inchworm and a couple of songs from our last concert - Here Comes the Sun (Beatles) and Never Enough.(from The Greatest Showman). Oh and we will have a band!

I have been part of this choir for ten years, almost from its beginning. We have come a long way in those years. Everything is learned by rote, so no music required. We have lyrics for most songs but I do my best to learn them off by heart so I can really enjoy myself on concert day. Being part of the choir has given more confidence. I've always loved to sing. It makes me happy, and I love performing too.