Just received - post festival update on The Lost Sound from Sandra Smith:
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The Lost Sound had a wonderful Festival concert
with an exceptionally warm welcome from the organisers and the audience.
It's not often our conductor Sandra is given an honorary title of 'a
singing missionary'.
The whole concert was special for us - the church
was stunning to perform in - really intimate, with fantastic natural
acoustics for unamplified voices. (We like to sing 'au naturel' as much
as possible.) Sometimes in a concert, a rather special alchemy happens
and this was one of those times. We had rehearsed really well and on the
night the 'magic' of performance took us over and the songs felt that
they came alive on a different level. In our final song 'Wild Mountain
Thyme', even our conductor had a tear!
It has to be said that the 'behind the scenes'
aspect of the Dart Music Festival, (the bit the audience don't see!) is
really excellent. It is a very well-run programme of events and the team
are friendly and kind. This goes a long way to making performers feel
welcome and ready to produce their best. So a big thank-you to the
festival team!
We've had very positive feedback, requests to
join our choir and future bookings for the autumn term from that night.
On the strength of it, we've now got charity concerts lined up in
October, Torbay event performances, and an invitation to sing with the
1000 voices at Christmas at Exeter cathedral.
Join our facebook page,
'The Lost Sound Chorus', to come and see us sing next term.
Catch The Lost Sound busking at Teignmouth folk fest from 4pm, 23rd June
( weather permitting!)
