Snippets from recent Newsletters and other choir news.

       Memories of Bruay-La-Buissiere, May 2009.

     

 

                            

     On Sunday mornings when we're 'on tour', we always ask our hosts if they can arrange for us to sing in the morning service at

     a local church. This time we drove to Lille and sang in St. Catherine's Church - a really magnificent building - in one of the older

     parts of the city. (The two photographs above show us rehearsing and part of the large congregation).

     The afternoon was spent looking around Lille. On the Monday morning, we detoured to near-by Arras and

     visited the caves, below the main square, which were the billets of thousands of Allied troops during WW1. The picture below

     shows some of our party standing outside the Town Hall with the cave complex several metres below us.

                     

 

 

 

                      

 

 

 

 

 

                                      

                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                         

 

 

 

 

                                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was our second visit to Bruay and our evening concert on
Saturday evening was in St. Martin's Church. This church has
a lovely acoustic and we were warmly received by the large
audience.
The concert was followed by a very enjoyable supper at one of the local restaurants.