OUR FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

Coming into our fifth year, it's a good time to reflect on how far we've come from when we started _ a group of music enthusiasts, eager to sing, explore instrumental playing and find a way of making music together.

In the course of our meeting we did just that, remembering how hard we found it to hold a part in a round and keep in time with each other when playing an instrumental piece. We still have difficulties of course, but my goodness how we've improved and remarkable now how we approach a new piece with a much more confident attitude. Singing alone was also a complete 'no-no' but remarkable how the good atmosphere within our group has encouraged all of us to have a go.

Hockets, each individual singing a word or phrase of a song in turn round the circle, are now OK and a good way of raising the level of alertness in everyone.

For me, it's been so good to work with people who are prepared to go out of their 'comfort zone' musically and try a new skill, such as playing the xylophones, drumming, improvising vocally and on an instrument. Also, it generates a lot of fun as we don't take ourselves too seriously. 
So musically we're on a good track and we decided to enhance our progress by using what money we can afford to bring in occasional visiting tutors, such as drumming and voice tutors.

We're back on 20th April for our summer session which runs till 18th May.

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL.