I haven’t managed to blog for ages, for the simple reason I’ve been much too busy. I’ve mainly been busy with Flutewise Live! It involved more work than you can imagine, but it seems to have been worth it as everyone is very happy.

The weekend before Flutewise Live! we had our last Flutewise Exploration day in Sutton, thanks to the music service there. Abbie and Gareth organised it and we all seemed to have a lot of fun. We covered the usual sort of tthings – warm up, some ensemble pieces (including Bouree and Pachelbel’s Canon) and we also had a good go at Zig Zag Zoo.

Flute players in Sutton

We also learnt Brian Boru’s March from memory so everyone could play it while I took loads of photographs. I took masses, mainly because I’d been asked to provide some for BBC Breakfast for when Ian Anderson was being interviewed. The photos were great (in my very humble opinion) but they didn’t use them. Never mind, Ian’s interview was absolutley brilliant and I’m really grateful to him. Did you see it or hear him on the radio being interviewed?

After the Sutton event I continued working my 16 hour day (which I’ve been doing since about January) leading up to Flutewise Live! From all accounts everyone had a great time on the day. Lots of other people worked really hard before the event and on the day to make it so successful. On your behalf as well as my own, I’m really grateful to all of those unsung heroes.

Where you there? Did you have fun?