Oh, yeah, we had a concert last night. I just haven't been able to drum up any enthusiasm for this season's music. I'm just glad it's over and we can move onto something else. Oh, some of it was fun, but mainly it was a lot of oooh-y, ahhh-y folk music. Being the backup band for the melody can get old.

We did enjoy the visit from the local Scottish dance group. They have lessons on Thursday nights not too far from where I work, so we might check them out one week.

( More Bryanisms )

You know how instruments go out of tune in damp weather? Drum heads and strings loosen, wood swells, reeds squeak, etc.? This week's fog seems to have had a similar effect on the choir. We were flatter than Kansas last night, and tempos were all over the place. Poor Bryan was ready to tear his hair out, wondering where his normally well-behaved choir had gone.

It doesn't help that some of the music is not terribly inspiring to sing. The problem with arranging folk music for choirs is that the easiest thing to do is to give one section the melody with the lyrics, and write oohs and ahhs for everyone else. As Bryan says, "My biggest fear, when we are singing nothing is that we are also thinking nothing, and therefore we are doing nothing."

Our fund-raiser concert next month has a Celtic theme. It's a bit lighter than our last concert. Aaron's flyer for it is here. (Note: 4MB download)