Happy New Year (with sad bit too!)

Happy New Year indeed...
...have a wonderful 2015!

Just in time for New Year, we had snowy scenes in Switzerland at the delightful Kloster Fischingen... once again a lovely evening: our 4th visit, and a splendid setting for a New Year's Eve concert....
Thank you to Silvan, Andrea and Michel for looking after us so well!
Fireworks at midnight were spectacular (and entirely from members of the public!)

Then we drove down to Luxembourg (the snow had stopped falling luckily) & arrived in time to celebrate a Best-of-British New Year... (altho' we did a wee bit of Strauss, natch!)
Once again we marvel at the happiness people have to wave Union flags and sing Land of Hope and Glory (albeit with Maggie & Julian Forsyth's comic additions)...
Thank you to Charles and everybody at Esch... a fantastic theatre!

This was, of course, Richard Bryan's last performance with us.... a very sad moment.  As we have said before, his influence on the group will never cease...even when he is physically gone...
It didn't affect the gig itself, but I am sure we all were feeling the weight of it as we sang.

Good luck, Richard with all that you do in the future...

...and so to steal a phrase, "The King is dead, long live the Queen".... er...
Sarah-Ann comes into the fray... onwards we go...
...do come and see us when you can!