Stephen with some of the Flutewise choir before our performance
Last night some Flutewise members took part in a concert at Cranleigh Village Hall with the Slinfold Concert Band. It was a Christmas Concert in aid of Chase, the hospice for children. It was a fabulous evening.
We played three pieces on our own and then joined in with the band and a bagpiper for the finale. Stephen, who had come along to help me out, was particularly excited about the finale as it was a medley of Scottish pieces.
Our pieces were Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (arranged by James Christensen), Hodie Christus Natus Est by Jerry Randalls and Ian Clarke’s Walk Like This. Our choir wasn’t very big but it was supported by some members of the band and the whole band helped us out in Walk Like This with the scat calls. I was so pleased with the performance, everyone really worked well, it was great.
We’d met to rehearse at Forest Green Village Hall for several weeks since mid November and I think everyone deserves a big pat on the back for acheiving such a high standard of performance. We’d been invited to take part by Sophie’s mum, Jo, who plays with the band.
A couple of weeks ago, Jo asked me to collect a coloured flute from Jonathan Myall, as he had donated it for a raffle prize at the concert. The raffle raised over £350. Stephen and I bought loads of tickets in the hope of winning the red flute. We didn’t, we won a box of chocolate mints, but Sophie won the flute. It’s good that it’s kept in our ‘Flutewise family’.
So many thanks go to everyone for making it all so special. I nearly forgot to tell you, I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers, they were a real surprise.
Flowers at the end of the concert
The journey there and back was quite horrendous due to flash flooding, but it was worth it.
One Comment
Despite Stephen’s intro to ‘Walk like this’ warning the audience to be prepared for something different, the elderly gentleman sitting next week jumped out of his sit when you all started hissing and blowing! In retrospect I think he may have been asleep at the time. Hard to believe when he was only sitting 10 feet away from a full brass band.
Anyways .. just to say it was great evening and Flutewise did us proud.
PS: we had to ford a river which had appeared just outside our house to get to the concert but incredibly it had vanished when we got home. (the river, not the house that is)