The choir social was well attended and the singing was mostly excellent. I don't know what they call that game on the xbox 360', but at least I remembered the appliance, and it provided perfect background to our eating, drinking and talking.
Sorry it took me so long to fill you in on all the happenings. If you weren't there you totally missed out, on a whole smorgasbord (nice spread, Jenny) of tasty delights and a cornucopia of karaoke. Sorry about the big words, its going to be the last blog for a while, and to be honest I am still feeling the effects of whatever it was Ed put in his glass bath full of punch. There was enough to bath Ruby in, and he stood in the foyer making the glasses very full indeed ...Jenny let me help cut bread, so sorry if it was wonky/smaller than some one else's bit...
Bonus - every item on the sweet trolley was chocolatey! and I had about 5 things in the end ...
I do hope Jack got home OK, but after seeing him in action licking butter wrappers clean of butter, I wouldn't have taken him over the speed bumps in my car...
BEST PARTY QUOTES ...
"well, it's off the internet ... so ... you can blame the internet!"
"Lovely Spread Jenny!"
"He's not usually allowed to do that ..."
"I do feed him, honest!"
This Bog post has been approved by the management. It's their fault its so late.
Dorset For Singing - Beach Live 2010
Dorset For Singing - Beach Live 2010
Originally uploaded by dav.idbain
Dave shares another super photo with us, of our day on the beach for Spirit of the Sea - you can read what he says about this if you click on the picture ...
And here I have blown us up a bit so you can see us better ...
8th July 2010
A little something before the weekend ...
hello dear choir, no Ed this week and no Hannah, but theres always a little Cat and her dusty keyboard ...
This lovely review apeared in the Echo after our Wey-Hey-Bay do ....
Where Dave, our lovely sound man and super photographer took this lovely picture, risking life and lenses to avoid a rail being in the picture!
hope you are not missing choir this week ... but if you are, i hope that helped. Dont forget to come and sing on the beach on Sunday, 3.30pm.
hello dear choir, no Ed this week and no Hannah, but theres always a little Cat and her dusty keyboard ...
This lovely review apeared in the Echo after our Wey-Hey-Bay do ....
Where Dave, our lovely sound man and super photographer took this lovely picture, risking life and lenses to avoid a rail being in the picture!
hope you are not missing choir this week ... but if you are, i hope that helped. Dont forget to come and sing on the beach on Sunday, 3.30pm.
4th July 2010
Singing in The Street!
The events on stage at Sutton Poyntz Street Fayre over ran a bit, but Dorset for Singing kept the audience hanging on to their very last song, yes, we had them swaying and singing along. I was pleased to see the size of our crowd, it was much bigger one than the act before us, and I think that audience was largely made up of Dorset for Singing, waiting to squeeze on stage.
And squeeze we did, and sang our hearts out we also did, and though the wind started to blow and the bunting tugged at its trappings, we made a good sound and left our audience smiling. I think we might even gain some new blood too. I hope it's men.
Well done dear choir, I was so proud to see those happy faces out there, I am sure we were a fitting finale to the well organised day. We can now tick off out third concert of the summer term, and look forward to sand in our toes next Sunday during spirit of the sea. Remember too, not to turn up on Thursday, but you can turn up on the blog if you like, and I'll have a little treat for you, coz I love you so very much ...
Ed; Thanks for the lift down ... XXXXX
The events on stage at Sutton Poyntz Street Fayre over ran a bit, but Dorset for Singing kept the audience hanging on to their very last song, yes, we had them swaying and singing along. I was pleased to see the size of our crowd, it was much bigger one than the act before us, and I think that audience was largely made up of Dorset for Singing, waiting to squeeze on stage.
And squeeze we did, and sang our hearts out we also did, and though the wind started to blow and the bunting tugged at its trappings, we made a good sound and left our audience smiling. I think we might even gain some new blood too. I hope it's men.
Well done dear choir, I was so proud to see those happy faces out there, I am sure we were a fitting finale to the well organised day. We can now tick off out third concert of the summer term, and look forward to sand in our toes next Sunday during spirit of the sea. Remember too, not to turn up on Thursday, but you can turn up on the blog if you like, and I'll have a little treat for you, coz I love you so very much ...
Ed; Thanks for the lift down ... XXXXX
1st July 2010
Trust me, it sounds lovely!
No Ed tonight, but a few questions to me about how I get anything done with all these children, well I am bit late today with the blog, so that will help explain that ...
Please meet near stage on Sunday just before 4-ish, ready to wow Sutton P with our voices. If you aren't sure where the main stage is I think its in the middle of the duck pond.
A HUGE thank you to Hannah for coping with us, I hope we didn't appear to stroppy, I think we are definitely used to dealing with Ed, and his gentle ways, and thought it was quite funny when we all gratefully sat ourselves down without being asked! Thanks to Michael for doing all the notices, and giving us some tips on speed dating ...
It was quite useful hearing some more vocal tricks and tips, and to have a break from our serious concert practice of the same old songs, and do you know, I do think that IMAGINE was starting to sound very lovely, and all that in half a session too!
Sorry about the snakes hannah ... i should have warned you that without Ed's hand signal to finish a word, the ss can hiss on for hours...
Love you D~F~S, see you in a muddy field on Sunday xxxx
No Ed tonight, but a few questions to me about how I get anything done with all these children, well I am bit late today with the blog, so that will help explain that ...
Please meet near stage on Sunday just before 4-ish, ready to wow Sutton P with our voices. If you aren't sure where the main stage is I think its in the middle of the duck pond.
A HUGE thank you to Hannah for coping with us, I hope we didn't appear to stroppy, I think we are definitely used to dealing with Ed, and his gentle ways, and thought it was quite funny when we all gratefully sat ourselves down without being asked! Thanks to Michael for doing all the notices, and giving us some tips on speed dating ...
It was quite useful hearing some more vocal tricks and tips, and to have a break from our serious concert practice of the same old songs, and do you know, I do think that IMAGINE was starting to sound very lovely, and all that in half a session too!
Sorry about the snakes hannah ... i should have warned you that without Ed's hand signal to finish a word, the ss can hiss on for hours...
Love you D~F~S, see you in a muddy field on Sunday xxxx
24 June 2010
Last Practice this year ...
More folder juggling last night - i juggled one for some one who doesn't read the trusty bloggy blogs - now our songs for ''beach live'' look like this ...
I'M A BELIEVER,
I DREAMED A DREAM,
SOMETHING INSIDE SO STRONG,
SONG OF THE SEA,
BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP,
THE PRAYER,
LET THE RIVER RUN,
money money money
you raise me up
sos
THE ROSE...
if you take out the songs in small letters, you get the songs for out Sutton Poynts gig on the 4th of July ...
Hot news tonight as we heard that we will meet Hanna Soulsby at last, when she will do a WORKSHOP. I hope she doesn't make us go on all-fours, or stare into each others eyes, or maybe stand in a big chain holding each others bellies (thinking of other vocal workshops I have taken part in). I might bring a note from my Mum. Or leave my belly at home so I cant do it... Also, are coming to our social to eat jenny's cheese straws? Tickets next week, or call jenny using the web site information ...
The official timings and so on for Sutton-Poynts and Beach-Live will be up on our official site soon, I am not going to bother you for much longer today as I have to take 2 cots to bits and that means finding a srewdriver first, but before that, we did get some ironing done this week on some very important parts of songs, now you jusy have to remember what you have been told and sing that. I'm proud to a 'lover', and proud to be part of DFS, we really are sounding like a propper choir these days.
Keep Singing, I LOOOOOOOVE YOUUUUUU! XXXX
More folder juggling last night - i juggled one for some one who doesn't read the trusty bloggy blogs - now our songs for ''beach live'' look like this ...
I'M A BELIEVER,
I DREAMED A DREAM,
SOMETHING INSIDE SO STRONG,
SONG OF THE SEA,
BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP,
THE PRAYER,
LET THE RIVER RUN,
money money money
you raise me up
sos
THE ROSE...
if you take out the songs in small letters, you get the songs for out Sutton Poynts gig on the 4th of July ...
Hot news tonight as we heard that we will meet Hanna Soulsby at last, when she will do a WORKSHOP. I hope she doesn't make us go on all-fours, or stare into each others eyes, or maybe stand in a big chain holding each others bellies (thinking of other vocal workshops I have taken part in). I might bring a note from my Mum. Or leave my belly at home so I cant do it... Also, are coming to our social to eat jenny's cheese straws? Tickets next week, or call jenny using the web site information ...
The official timings and so on for Sutton-Poynts and Beach-Live will be up on our official site soon, I am not going to bother you for much longer today as I have to take 2 cots to bits and that means finding a srewdriver first, but before that, we did get some ironing done this week on some very important parts of songs, now you jusy have to remember what you have been told and sing that. I'm proud to a 'lover', and proud to be part of DFS, we really are sounding like a propper choir these days.
Keep Singing, I LOOOOOOOVE YOUUUUUU! XXXX
19th June 2010
Concert, St John's Fun Day ...
Thank you to everyone that turned out to sing on Saturday, it was funny watching the audience disappear into the 'stage area' after The Omega Project made way for us. Thanks guys for letting us use your PA system and letting us hide behind your music stands... sorry that Ed pulled the head of your music stand at a crucial moment ... here is a link to Omega Project's Facebook Page to make up for it!
We were all a bit nervous of singing outside, but we did hear that we sounded great, and that our last song, The Rose, had beautiful harmonies which came across very well, and was a good choice for a finale (thanks Ray for that feedback, and thanks to Ruth's Mum for cheering the loudest).
And thanks for the scone, very nice, oops its starting to sound like the Oscars, so I had better go before I cry and you all look at your watches. Thanks also to Ron for visiting RaggyRat Land and giving me some feedback. I went home to find a wonderful review of out Wey-Hey-Bay concert, did you see it? Catherine Coombes, who's she when she's at home? ...Thanks to Ruth Meech for making good use of our blog and websites to promote our wonderful choir's work ... and thanks to my Dad for making me stand on a chair and sing to him when I was 6 ....
Thank you to everyone that turned out to sing on Saturday, it was funny watching the audience disappear into the 'stage area' after The Omega Project made way for us. Thanks guys for letting us use your PA system and letting us hide behind your music stands... sorry that Ed pulled the head of your music stand at a crucial moment ... here is a link to Omega Project's Facebook Page to make up for it!
We were all a bit nervous of singing outside, but we did hear that we sounded great, and that our last song, The Rose, had beautiful harmonies which came across very well, and was a good choice for a finale (thanks Ray for that feedback, and thanks to Ruth's Mum for cheering the loudest).
And thanks for the scone, very nice, oops its starting to sound like the Oscars, so I had better go before I cry and you all look at your watches. Thanks also to Ron for visiting RaggyRat Land and giving me some feedback. I went home to find a wonderful review of out Wey-Hey-Bay concert, did you see it? Catherine Coombes, who's she when she's at home? ...Thanks to Ruth Meech for making good use of our blog and websites to promote our wonderful choir's work ... and thanks to my Dad for making me stand on a chair and sing to him when I was 6 ....
18 june 2010
The Plan ...
well the plan was to have a warm up, some notices and a look at some ironing out that needed doing, followed by a break and a quick run through of our half an hour of songs for St Johns on Saturday.
but it didn't work out like that, because reshuffling song sheets and arguing over what stays and goes takes a long time! And we never got round to ironing, never mind the break (luxury) so I just hope we don't look too wrinkled next Saturday.
for those of you who dropped their folders or were too busy having their nice green folder stolen by Ed to fix their pages, here is the new running order.
I'M A BELIEVER,
I DREAMED A DREAM,
SOMETHING INSIDE SO STRONG,
SONG OF THE SEA,
BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP,
THE PRAYER,
LET THE RIVER RUN,
THE ROSE...
We don't need to get to the Church for any earlier then 2.45pm, unless you are coming for a donkey ride or a bounce first (nothing to do with Ed's belly, there's a bouncy castle). For the choir there's a cream tea afterwards, well they couldn't give it to us first as we wouldn't look good with jam on our tops...
Remember to that Ed was very proud of his 'well tuned' choir at the Wey Bay Methodist church, and have a hug from me, Cat XXXXX
well the plan was to have a warm up, some notices and a look at some ironing out that needed doing, followed by a break and a quick run through of our half an hour of songs for St Johns on Saturday.
but it didn't work out like that, because reshuffling song sheets and arguing over what stays and goes takes a long time! And we never got round to ironing, never mind the break (luxury) so I just hope we don't look too wrinkled next Saturday.
for those of you who dropped their folders or were too busy having their nice green folder stolen by Ed to fix their pages, here is the new running order.
I'M A BELIEVER,
I DREAMED A DREAM,
SOMETHING INSIDE SO STRONG,
SONG OF THE SEA,
BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP,
THE PRAYER,
LET THE RIVER RUN,
THE ROSE...
We don't need to get to the Church for any earlier then 2.45pm, unless you are coming for a donkey ride or a bounce first (nothing to do with Ed's belly, there's a bouncy castle). For the choir there's a cream tea afterwards, well they couldn't give it to us first as we wouldn't look good with jam on our tops...
Remember to that Ed was very proud of his 'well tuned' choir at the Wey Bay Methodist church, and have a hug from me, Cat XXXXX
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