This past weekend, Eric and I had the privilege of caroling with a group of friends for Kirkland's Tree Lighting Ceremonies. We spent four hours rotating from stage to stage in the downtown area, singing in the very cold weather. It was a lot of fun, we even got to sing in my hotel's lobby and in an art gallery and coffee shop, and then we got a free dinner at a local Greek restaurant as part of the deal. Woot!
Anyway, the Downtown Kirkland Association put together a little video on the event and they put our group as the musical background! You can see me in the little video clip thrown in the middle of the slideshow. Also, forgive that not quite high G at the end of the song. Both sopranos in the group (myself being one of them) are solid second sopranos, and after singing for that long in the cold, our voices just didn't quite hold out.
Either way, we all had a blast and got rave reviews. In fact, they've already asked us to come back and sing again for ambiance for holiday shoppers, only this time, they're willing to pay us. Cool, eh? No final details worked out, so who knows if it'll actually happen, but it was a really neat experience. :)
Side note: when picking songs to sing for these types of events, don't throw a socialist type song like Good King Wenceslas into the mix when singing to a very bourgeois crowd. I swear we got crickets every time...
Side note 2: everyone loved that we sang Carol of the Bells. EVERYONE.
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