Paul Feast Concert Sunday 9th October 2022
Wednesday 23rd November, 2022 - 5:11pmOn
a lovely Autumn evening, the choir gathered in Paul Church to perform
their annual Feast Day Concert. This concert was another landmark as
this was the first time we have sung together at this time in three
years. Whilst Covid-19 has not gone away, our wonderful NHS has been
able to put together a series of vaccines that have culminated in the
effects of this dreadful virus being minimised and people can now mix
together without fear and enjoy the normality of being together. This is
certainly true of members of the choir.
Our
special guests for this concert were ‘Hit & Miss’. They are a young
vibrant Cornish quartet who keep Cornwall’s musical heritage alive.
They are very proud of their reputation for their rich four-part harmony
and this was very evident at the concert when they sang. Quite rightly
they deserved the standing ovation which the audience gave them. As
Harry “Safari” Glasson has said, “The future of Cornish singing is safe
in their hands”. We couldn’t agree more Harry!
The
choir were also in fine voice and in particular a new song to the
repertoire was an Appalachian folk song, ‘Bright Morning Stars” which
was extremely well received as well as “Cornwall My Home” which Harry
Glasson had given his permission for our Musical Director, Stephen
Lawry, to arrange it in four part harmony for the choir.
At
this concert, Certificates were given out. These certificates have been
given by the Cornish Federation and were presented to choir members by
our chairman, Jon Pender for long service in singing with the County’s
Male Voice Choirs. Recipients were Mark Lean (40 years), David Harvey
(30 years), Reg Osborne (30 years), Derek Harvey (70 years), Stephen
Lawry (35 years), Justin Williams (30 years), Patrick Semmens (50
years), Charles Parke (35 years), Julian Dale (35 years), John Davies
(40 years) and Colin Lawry (35 years). In all a total of 430 years of
singing were recognised.
To conclude the evening, Paul Church parish priest, Rev Andrew Yates, gave the final blessing.
This
concert is always one in which the choir donate all funds raised to the
parish church as a thank you for hosting the choir and for enabling
MMVC to call it home. This year we were pleased to donate £900.00.
Photographs courtesy of Matt Bromage.
