Dear Reader –
I’d be lying if I said that lots had happened between the last letter on Saturday and this morning!
Got the car washed and the grass cut and a few other bits and pieces that had been put on the long finger…
But we did release this video on Saturday night - recorded in the Vicar St Green Room on Thursday afternoon.
The Big Thing
So due to the lack of news I thought I’d tell you a couple of stories from the day out in Dublin on Thursday…
Niamh and I had great craic down the back of the bus for a while with the younger crew. Niamh was in the thick of it all day - I was up the front but got a call to come down and take part in a particular game. As Fraser Gaine said - this is the sort of game that music nerds get up to when they get together.
The game? Pick a song, and sing along wit the track for a while. The track volume gets muted (the track keeps playing) but you have to keep singing. Then you have to see are you still in time when the track volume is raised again. Cue hilarity as very few of the participants managed to do so!
Where else but Sligo?
So much happens on a day like last Thursday that it’s impossible to hear all of the stories. And so I love hearing from people afterwards with little glimpses of what their day looked like.
Jamie Callaghan filled me in on a moment shared by himself and Emily Meades late into the gig.
They were watching Sinéad Conway sing I Will Always Love You and exchanged a look that Jamie said he will always remember. These are my words not his, but I love the image of these two incredible singers listening to a colleague, sharing a moment of awe as they themselves wait to go on and give the audience a similar feeling!
But while these singers will always catch the headlines and get the mentions from the likes of Louise Duffy (and rightly so!), the two groups that keep the show on the road backstage are the young musicians and the choir.
I love these pictures, the first one because it must be the only rest that the teenagers took all day!
And the second pic is just gorgeous - it shows choirmaster Dave Flynn and a selection of our sopranos and altos. These guys have worked so hard over the last few years to improve the standard of the choir, and so many of you commented on how fantastic they sounded on last Thursday. Well done all!
What’s New?
THEME NIGHT #35 IN OCTOBER: The theme is yet to be announced, but we have confirmed dates, venues and tickets for Theme Night #35 in October. Get them first here.
THE SIMPLE THINGS: Thanks to Michael Rooney for donating me a spare pair of black socks for the gig - I had helpfully arrived with only white ones.
MORNING STRUGGLES: Great pic from Steve Rogers and nicely doctored by Marie too!
Finally…
The aforementioned performance…
Till next time - Kieran.
