HEARTY WARM UP ON A COLD MORNING

The Icelandic ' South River Band' gave us our warm up music this morning -- A Dram Before Breakfast, which inspired energetic arm stretches and feisty foot stamping -- Click on the "Play" Button above to hear this great tune --- give it time to load
Working on the voices, we moved on to singing 'Kumula Vista' in hocket, each person following the previous with a short phrase and this is beginning to show up some fine, if under confident, singers.
Concentrated practice on Old Angus followed, with xylophone & glock players learning their parts separately while the others, supported by Kate and Moira on the bass, put together the song and other percussion parts. Playing, singing and listening so that all the parts keep in time together is quite a skill and week by week we are improving at it, mainly by getting the 'feel' of the music.
We ended the morning with the beautiful harmonies of 'Banua". Three part close harmony was complemented by Mairi and Isla's 4th part soaring above the melody. This was repeated many times, as we settled into hearing our own sound - a lovely, warm feeling.