For this week's FTA, we head back a whole decade!  Ten years ago today we participated in the first Festival Of Song in Bristol.

Organised by Bristol's Gathering Voices charity, the event was put on to establish Bristol as the UK's first "City of Song" and ran annually from 2010 to 2016.  The festival consisted of various musical events held during the week in venues across the city, culminating in a day and night event in the centre.  We were one of 70 choirs perforning around the harbourside during the day and then again at a more formal event in the evening at St Georges.



A showery morning, meant we sang under trees and umbrellas for the first part of our daytime set, but the sun eventually 'shined' for us. In the evening we dressed up and headed up to St Georges to round off a great day.
 

FLASH MOB

The following day, the organisers arranged a flash-mob performance of Hey Big Spender, in Cabot Circus for members of all the choirs who took part the previous day.  You can view the clip here, courtesy of ShoutOut Radio.

Our Lesley taking part in the Flash Mob for Hey Big Spender in Cabot Circus


The choir pose for a photo on WelshBack, while sheltering from the rain


Sinner Man
I Feel Like Going On
Adiemus
Hallelujah
Money, Money, Money
Beautiful
Hashivenu
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Super Trouper
We Are Family
Mayenziwe

THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (afternoon)

SHINE (afternoon)

THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (evening)

WE ARE FAMILY (evening)

 

HALLELUJAH (evening)

I FEEL LIKE GOING ON (evening)

MONEY MONEY MONEY (evening)
  
SHINE (evening)
 

Thanks to Dan Cragg and Nick Banks for the video links.


A slideshow of images from the weekend