history>Concerts in 2006
- Saturday 16th December in Cranshaws Kirk. A free concert in a lovely
church in the very attractive and sociable village of Cranshaws, deep in
the Borders, with mince pies and mulled wine in the village hall afterwards.
After seven years, this was our last concert with Frances.
- Sunday 10th December in St Giles Cathedral - a free concert in the "St
Giles at Six" series, packed with an audience of at least three hundred.
Wonderful atmosphere, rich acoustic: a delight to sing another Christmas
concert here, but a twinge of sadness that Frances won't be leading us next
year. Sadness rapidly dispelled by an evening at Vittoria's.
- Sunday 10th December in the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street,
at 1.45pm. Admission free. A good audience gathered to hear us and appeared
to enjoy the performance in spite of the unhelpful acoustic, background
noise and distractions.
- Saturday 9th December in Rosslyn Chapel, at 7.45pm. Sold out, with people
queueing for returns. A very good evening indeed.
- Wednesday 6th December in Priestfield Church, Dalkeith Road, at 7.30pm.
A good audience, appreciative as always, and an enjoyable opener for our
Christmas series.
- Wednesday 25th October: a concert in the Biggar
Festival, scheduled to conflict with two competing attractions - but
plenty of people paid to hear us, and liked us well enough to buy an unprecedented
number of CDs.
- Saturday 7th October: a weekend trip to the Lake District to sing in the
Kirkgate Centre,
Cockermouth, with Piping
Hot Recorders - featuring the world premier of The Snow Maiden
- Saturday 23rd September in St Martin's Church, Dalry, in support of the
Bethany Christian Trust:
scarcely a ticket sold by the Saturday morning, which drove some of us out
to leaflet the farmers' market, but on the evening an ample and generous
audience appeared.
- Saturday 8th July: singing for a wedding
- In late May, we set out on a very busy and active short tour, singing
four concerts -
- Wednesday 24th: Aros Centre,
Portree, Isle of Skye
- Thursday 25th: Lochcarron
- Friday 26th: Arisaig, in the Astley Hall (and, in the afternoon, a
workshop for the children of Arisaig Primary School)
- Sunday 28th: St Columba's Church, Boat
of Garten
This was generously supported by a grant from Awards
for All.
- Thursday 4th May in the National Portrait Gallery: a half-hour concert,
admission free, to a welcoming and enthusiastic audience. Several friends
and ex-Rudsambistas were there to enjoy some of our familiar songs and some
new ones, and to bring us news of their doings. Afterwards there was the
now traditional dinner at Vittoria's.
- Saturday 22nd April in Rosslyn Chapel. Songs in English, Latin, French,
Gaelic, Croatian, Polish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Armenian diddling, and something
Caribbean. Very well received by a discerning audience - discerning, but
not as large as normal at Rosslyn. That was just as well, since the reserve
seating had disappeared, and if any more people had come along then they
would have had to stand. So I shamelessly record yet another FULL HOUSE!
- Saturday 8th April: singing for Rachael and Jake's very lovely wedding
in St Mark's Unitarian Church, and at the ceilidh that evening in the Mansion
House at Edinburgh Zoo.
