This past weekend St David’s Music Group performed to two packed audiences in what are now annual Spring concerts – slightly early for Spring in Scotland but there has been a run of good dry (but cold) weather and the daffodil stems are above the ground. the flowers will be some weeks off and should be ready for Easter in 5 weeks time.
The Music Group, comprised of friends and families is very much a large family and this is the first larger scale concert since the full production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘Gondoliers’ in September last year.
The programme was wide and varied with Rogers and Hammerstein fixtures from Carousel, and Oklahoma, along with songs from the silver screen where any sone ever in a film can be sung. The ‘All that Jazz’ from Chicago was showstopping as was the ‘Honey Bun’ from South Pacific, with Honey Bun arriving in blonde wig, grass skirt and coconut bra. He, and it was a he relished the opportunity to sit on his father in law’s lap, and that of our pastor and another friend. His wife, daughter and mother, all on stage, hadn’t been warned and their faces were interesting. In order something like, ‘not again’, ‘oh dad my street credibility!’ and ‘my son wouldn’t do that’.
All in all it was a fabulous series over two nights where talents shone and people were entertained and left smiling.
For me it was special as my darling daughter (now almost 6 and a half) joined the group for the first time, so with my wife and son made a complete set. That was a red letter moment and will be repeated in September when we stage ‘Brigadoon’.
So what was it all for?
It was about taking risks and demonstrating God given talent as we are urged to do in Mathew’s gospel. Not bury them, because look what happened to that guy.
