EPAM London concert

The EPAM 'Music is Everywhere' Christmas party...
Wonderful evening at St Mary-at-the-Wall in the City - lovely church... a friend who was there tells me it looks in fine nick because it had a fire in the 1980s and so the decor is all rather new (and of course beautiful!)
Lovely to finally watch the super Voces8 live, as they joined the EPAM stable this year; and also the splendid Fugata Quintet who did some excellent Piazzola.
Two school choirs were also on show, and were excellent; one the choir from Beaumont School, St Albans who sang together the lovely Second Eve by Ola Gjeilo (published by Edition Peters):- also their six-part male voice group who beautifully sang a wonderful song from Adele.  The second choir were from St Edmund's, Canterbury who sang Shenandoah.  Both groups had worked with Voces8 in workshops.

All the choral forces joined together to sing John Cage's Four² - a great experience!

Looking forward on Saturday to a sold out gig at a room in the Royal Albert Hall - wanted to, but just could not leave the words "a room in" from that last sentence!

Funny Side at Newbury

Wonderful sunny afternoon as we arrived in Newbury on Friday... brilliant indeed.  Boding well for our next outing of On The Funny Side of the Street.
Joined once more by Chris Hatt at the piano, we did have a great time... audience were happy to come into the cool of the Corn Exchange, and they laughed at all the right places! Chris was especially and excellently large-scale during the Spamalot piece...
We also had the delight of both our General Manager, Robin Tyson, from EPAM & David Foster, our UK theatrical agent (All-Electric Productions) being with us to see the show.  They both had beatific smiles at the end of the show; so that seems OK.
...also Carole, our wonderful mailing list/fan organizer was there too - much of our wider family was in evidence... & Steve's wife too...
Hooray... back to London after the gig, tho' hanging around in Newbury would have been tremendous, for a happily-not-too-early flight to Luxembourg.... more on that trip soon!

Bridewell Hall & St Barts EPAM bash

Two gigs in one night - how splendid....luckily within a mile of each other.

Having spent a pleasant afternoon wandering on the South Bank [Globe & Tate Mod.] with Cantabile friend from Austria, Lotti...
& then had a pizza with my son & met up with my wife...
We had the first of our Bridewell Tuesdays [there's one more if you missed it on the 13th!] at 7pm, and had a lovely time with a great crowd in the splendid-to-sing-in Bridewell Hall; which had been especially Christmassed up for the occasion...
Friends old and new greeted us at the St Bride Institute, where, of course, we are Artists in Residence.

We chased on to St Bart.'s Church & heard the last half-an-hour of Tenebrae singing under the masterly direction of Nigel Short some carols published by Peters Edition and Faber [and a bit of OUP] - wonderful to hear the choir again.
Once everyone had a mince pie and some wine in their hand in the long gallery after all that, we sang our newly-published A Festival of Carols in Two Minutes (Carol, as was)... and The Twelve Days of Christmas to cheer everyone on in their drinking!  Good to see old friends there - Steve McNeff, Ben Parry (who have both written for us), as well as my ex-UEA colleague, Griselda who works for OUP... (very good to see rival publishing houses being able to work together amicably!)

Off to Eurostar and Belgium in the morning...

Sheet music download

Our Festival of Carols in Two Minutes is available for download NOW from choralstore.com
- Hooray!
[Some may know the arrangement as 'Carol']

First of many we hope... we are truly published by Edition Peters...

Altogether now....

"Once in... a manger... one silent night......"