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• Sunday 11th December in St Giles Cathedral: a 45-minute concert of Christmas and other music. St Giles attracted its usual audience of hundreds who rewarded our singing with generous enthusiasm (followed up with some very complimentary e-mails).
• Saturday 10th December - after a gap of several years forced by renovation work and extreme weather, we were delighted to sing again in Rosslyn Chapel with a programme of Christmas music. We feared that people would have lost the habit of following us to this not-very-accessible venue with its centuries-old reputation for fierce chill; but in the event our audience filled the chapel, and sat in unaccustomed comfort provided by the new heating.
• Saturday 12th November at the Scottish Poetry Library. An ample audience, a generous acoustic and an intimate atmosphere: this felt more like singing among poetry than singing in a library. We packed a lot into about an hour of singing - partly a public concert and partly the library's farewell to one of their own.
• Sunday 14th August in St Giles Cathedral. As usual with the "St Giles at 6" series of free concerts and Edinburgh full of festival-goers and tourists, we got an audience of hundreds, and a very responsive audience too. They seemed to like everything from Morton Lauridsen's calm and beautiful Contre qui rose to Eric Whitacre's Leonardo dreams of his flying machine.
• Saturday 25th June in the Reid Hall of the University of Edinburgh. We offered free admission and took a retiring collection in support of St Columba's Hospice and of Drake Music Scotland - an organisation, based in Edinburgh, which creates opportunities across Scotland for over 6000 children and adults with disabilities to compose, learn and perform music independently. Our very generous audience donated over £435, which, with gift-aid, produced a total of £525.
• Saturday 14th/Sunday 15th May at the London Sangerstevne - an international non-competitive musical festival, and a lot of fun. Only a few of us could not be there. With a little redistribution of parts and solos, we entertained an audience of (mostly) other singers with a couple of wide-ranging performances that got a very appreciative reception. We sang a 12-minute set at the main event on the Saturday at St Matthew's Church in Ealing, and a longer set on the Sunday at Emmanuel Church, West Hampstead, with the admirable Mozaik Voices from Belgium singing the other half of the concert.
• 14th April in the Edinburgh's National Gallery (the National Portrait Gallery being still closed for renovation). We began with our first public performance of Ethan Sperry's raga-style Desh, which moved one Indian listener to come forward to congratulate Ollie, and tell the whole audience how good it was, and make them applaud again! Another new (for us) number was the Syrian/Iraqi Fog elna khel. The rest of our programme meandered through French, Icelandic, English, Estonian, Armenian, Latin and Polish.