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• Sunday 12th December, in St Giles Cathedral: this turned out to be our only Christmas concert of the season, since our Rosslyn Chapel and Cranshaws concert bookings were defeated by the snow and ice that arrived in late November and afflicted Scotland's roads for weeks. Happily, we managed to concentrate three concerts' worth of enthusiasm and (if our huge audience can be believed) quality into fifty-five minutes, and we got a wonderful response. For our five new members, this was the first experience of the Rudsambee/Christmas/St Giles effect. For Helen, who had come back from London to sing with us just one more time, it was a maintenance dose.
• 6th October: we held an open rehearsal evening in Priestfield Church, so that singers could experience how we operate and find out whether they would enjoy singing with us. A gratifying number of people showed up and (so far as we could tell) enjoyed the evening. They certainly sang well.
• 25th September, as part of the Wigtown Book Festival: a concert in Wigtown Parish Church, including Eric Whitacre's Cloudburst and his Five Hebrew Love Songs. These needed the support of several excellent local volunteer instrumentalists who made them into outstanding performances in spite of having had only an hour or so to rehearse with us beforehand. I'd particularly like to thank Susan Smyth whose solo violin created the perfect sound picture for the Love Songs.
• 29th August: a 45-minute free concert in the St Giles at 6 series. Thanks to the generosity of a dozen or so instrumentalists, we assembled the forces for our second performance of Eric Whitacre's stunning Cloudburst, and his Five Hebrew Love Songs, and the spine-tingling opening number from Abbie Betinis' From behind the caravan: songs of Hâfez. A huge audience repaid us with concentrated attention and a standing ovation. From our point of view, this was one of the most exhilarating and rewarding performances that we can remember. It was Helen's last concert before her move to London; and Angus missed it by one day, having departed for Australia on the Saturday. On the bright side, Claire reappeared for the day and sang with us.
• 15th August at the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens, as part of the "Scotland has talent" series of concerts. We sang a seventy-minute set at 10am on a Sunday morning at a venue that was almost hidden by (yet another) spiegeltent. Luckily the weather was pleasant, and an audience was lured in by the amplified sound and the free admission. We collected about £100 for WaterAid and St Columba's Hospice.
• 26th June in the University of Edinburgh's Reid Hall, where we performed Cloudburst in 2009. There were no handbells and thundersheets this time but we did sing another couple of pieces by Eric Whitacre. We kept up our tradition of singing in as many different languages as we can get our tongues around - Estonian, Armenian, French (old and new), Italian, Breton and even some English. We had the full attention of a small but appreciative audience (they outnumbered the singers, but not by much).
• 15th May - singing for a wedding in Biggar.
• 15th April in the National Gallery: a 30-minute free concert. That's the National Gallery on The Mound, not our familiar venue in the National Portrait Gallery (which is closed for renovation).