tea break

It's been a hot day today - the first time I've worn shorts in 2017 :-)

Tonight's outing was for our last Thursday evening choir practice before the Cairn Valley Song Cycle concerts begin - the first is this Saturday evening in St Ninian's Church, Moniaive. That's where we were tonight - and here you can see some of us having a well-deserved tea break outside the church.

The Song Cycle features nine songs, all by women composers and specially commissioned for the project. This will be the first time those songs have been sung in public. From the programme: "The brief for composers was to ponder: what our landscape means to the community, what community means to us and how changes within a community affect us." Our director, Kate Howard, writes: "I also wanted there to be reflection on migrations of communities through time, especially the present Syrian refugee crisis, but also remembering the 18th and 19th centuries when people were cleared from large swathes of Scotland, including here in Glencairn, and like today, whole communities were forced to venture across land and sea into the unknown."