2023

Our first festival was a great success:

Some of the highlights:

• over 1,300 participants.

• Choirs working together (200+ singers from 12 choirs)

• Outstanding choral leader in Greg Link

• Wide age range from baby to 100 year old who was sung Happy Birthday to by 6/7 year olds

• Very wide repertoire

• Very positive feedback

• Fantastic musical collaboration between two churches for first joint evensong

• Outstanding concert from Clare College Cambridge

• Mini-mozart for baby/toddlers

• Wonderful 10th birthday concert from Tibbs/Music for Memory

• excellent Evergreen school musical

Thoughts on singing shared at the joint evensong.

“When we raise our voices, we sing with the Saints in glory.  In music the veil between heaven and Earth becomes exquisitely, shimmerlying thin.

…wherever the faithful gather, they sing. Whatever is going on, the faithful sing. With an organ or keyboard or guitar. In harmony or scratchy unison. Songs of praise in Heaven and on Earth. Songs of freedom in the slave fields of the South.  Songs of peace at the gates of war. Songs of lament at the scenes of earthquake. Through upheaval, famine, disaster and state sanctioned injustice, the faithful sing. They sing to defy the powers of darkness. 

So, my friends: sing! Sing that you may pray twice. Sing to make this liturgy one with the heavenly liturgy. Sing in protest and in praise. Sing in hope and in defiance. Sing to make your hearts soar. Sing as a kingdom sign. Just sing.

 Rev Lucy Davis