Sing Out Bristol - 27/11/2021 7:45pm - Brigstowe World AIDS Day event 2021

Brigstowe World AIDS Day event 2021

Sat, 27 Nov 2021

After a massive 2 year break from live public performing (due to COVID), we returned in style by guest appearing at Brigstowe's annual World AIDS Day commemoration event in The Watershed, Bristol.

This event has become a regular fixture in our performance calendar and is usually the first time audiences get to hear new material from us; as we premiere songs we've learnt over the autumn months. Last year, we were restricted to a pre-recorded video submitted to Brigstowe's online only event, but this year the Zoom audience were joined by a sizeable crowd in the Watershed as the live event returned.

We debuted our latest track, The Beatles classic, Hey Jude along with two other of our recent favourites.

One Day Like This
Over The Rainbow
Hey Jude

This event marked the first performance for some of our newer members, a couple of whom had joined just two months earlier and others nearly two years ago but had to wait an extremely long time to get on stage in front of an audience....

"As soon as I moved to Bristol two years ago, one of the first things I wanted to do was join the brilliant Sing Out Bristol choir. I’d already been to a few of their concerts when the lovely David Abbott & Gerald Swift were members. Having joined in January 2020, it was after only a few (highly enjoyable) rehearsals that in-person sessions came to an abrupt end and we all retreated to Zoom. But we had our first live concert in two years last night, closing a World AIDS Day event! And I loved it!! We performed Elbow’s “One Day Like This”, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and a gorgeous arrangement of “Hey Jude” - it all seemed to go down well. Can’t wait for the next one…