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QMF celebrated their 25th year as a festival while we celebrated 20 years as a community choir.
Our intention was to have all four previous choir directors: Sarah Carroll, Rose Bygrave, Tiffany Eckhardt and Andrea Robertson, along with current choir director, Wayne Jury, all on the one stage with us for our performance on Sunday 26th November 2023 on the Glanuse Stage. We nearly pulled it off with the exception of Tiff who couldn't make it due to illness. (However, we did sing two of her songs which we had rehearsed in readiness for the occasion).
The sound on the day was great as was the attendance of the rather large crowd for a Sunday morning. How good was it to see so many previous choir members in the audience?!
Wayne started us off with a few of the songs we had performed earlier in the year and then we launched into Tiff's songs, "Beautiful World" and "Sea around the Shore". We then followed up with two of Andrea's songs, "A Time for all these Things" and "Lighthouse" followed by Rose with "You Send Me" and "Eraerama". Sarah then took to the stage and we sang "Water Bearer" and "Sea of Love".
All were crowd pleasers and Wayne added to this special event by directing "Love Me like a Rock" to complete the set. Yes, we even had people dancing!!
What a morning it was and a special thanks to all choir directors and the love we felt from the community and QMF!
Our intention was to have all four previous choir directors: Sarah Carroll, Rose Bygrave, Tiffany Eckhardt and Andrea Robertson, along with current choir director, Wayne Jury, all on the one stage with us for our performance on Sunday 26th November 2023 on the Glanuse Stage. We nearly pulled it off with the exception of Tiff who couldn't make it due to illness. (However, we did sing two of her songs which we had rehearsed in readiness for the occasion).
The sound on the day was great as was the attendance of the rather large crowd for a Sunday morning. How good was it to see so many previous choir members in the audience?!
Wayne started us off with a few of the songs we had performed earlier in the year and then we launched into Tiff's songs, "Beautiful World" and "Sea around the Shore". We then followed up with two of Andrea's songs, "A Time for all these Things" and "Lighthouse" followed by Rose with "You Send Me" and "Eraerama". Sarah then took to the stage and we sang "Water Bearer" and "Sea of Love".
All were crowd pleasers and Wayne added to this special event by directing "Love Me like a Rock" to complete the set. Yes, we even had people dancing!!
What a morning it was and a special thanks to all choir directors and the love we felt from the community and QMF!
Photos and videos courtesy of: Rod Nicholson, Linda McCallum & David Weston