Feb
23
2012

2012 Project365 (Day 54)

Bel CantoWell tonight was Bel Canto’s performance at the Guernsey Eisteddfod. I haven’t done an Eisteddfod for about 20 years and I still feel the fear!

This picture is Rocky and Anna doing last-minute preparations… check out their game faces! I was hoping that I could get The Mister to take a photograph of us on stage but photography was forbidden!

We were entered in the folk class and had to do two folk songs. The first one was called ‘She Moved Through the Fair’ and the second one was a French Canadian song called O Yo Yo and it was, quite frankly, terrifying. We not only had to sing in French but we also had to clap complex rhythms. There are lots of YouTube clips but this one is the best I have found. The choir in the video look so calm and collected, rather unlike us.

Anyway, we won the class with 89 points. The other two choirs had 82 and 86 and Mum and The Mister came to watch and said that we were very good and thought we should have more points than that (not that they are biased of course!). Our conductor wanted us to get at least 90 so I am quite sure that our performance will be taken apart on Monday at rehearsal! The adjudicator described it as being a little bit like ‘Riverdance for hands’!!

Written by Anna Williams in: Choir,Guernsey | Tags: , , ,

3 Comments »

  • MissLisa

    well done!

    Comment | February 24, 2012
  • MissLisa

    andOMG! I just watched that link,itsounds amazingand yes,I cansee howit wouldbe terrifying! Fun if you got itdown though – that’s the sort of stuff that Dee and Ilike 🙂

    Comment | February 24, 2012
  • Maddie

    I have enough trouble singing without adding clapping to the situation – it would be a nightmare!

    Well done for winning your section, would it be appropriate to point out that 89 is only one point away from 90? No? Fair enough.

    Comment | February 24, 2012

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