The Big (community) Gig - update

Junction 13 and St Silas' Community Choirs, with Leadhills Silver Band, after the finale

Wow.
Really.
Just...wow.
The Big (community) Gig exceeded all of the planning team's
expectations.  A great night, great music, good fun, and an excellent audience.
Within the programme for the evening, toes were tapped to the 'Rythm of Life',
we asked 'Can you feel the Love Tonight',
pondered the words of 'The Oracles' as Spartans prepared for battle.
There was also the drama of 'The Phantom of the Opera', as well as
Holst's 'Mars' and 'Jupiter' and some 'Swinging with the Mountain King'
in all their Silver Band glory...
Huge thanks to our performers and for what was an evening of super
and wide-ranging musical choices:
St Silas Community Choir, Glasgow
Leadhills Silver Band
and Junction 13 Community Choir, GANDL area.

Thanks, too, for the huge efforts undertaken by the Upper Clyde Parish Social Committee,
who fed and watered around 60 hungry singers and musicians over the course of
afternoon rehearsals and concert setting up. Hugely appreciated.

And, a concert is not a concert without an audience - and what a great show of
support from our local village communities. Well over 100 people turned up
to cheer everyone on.  Having managed to get full funding to hold the event,
we were able to raise £335 for Mary's Meals through a tombola and donations at the door.
That amount will help to provide a proper meal for 27 kids over the course of a year.
Brilliant result folks!
Beware, there's vague conversation already beginning about the possibilities of
having another of these gigs next year...

St Silas' and Junction 13 Community Choirs 'Let it Go'...

Junction 13

Leadhills Silver Band