when you know all the alto parts to carols by heart...

you know you have been singing in the Christmas choir for a few years.  This weekend was the 'Spirit of Christmas' weekend at QPAC - I am part of the choir.  It has been a massive week with rehearsals every night and three performances over the last two days.

Performing the Hallelujah chorus by Handel in a 150 strong choir with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and the organ in the Concert Hall was pretty special.  As was doing '6 white boomers' with actions.

Here's a posse of altos just before the second half of the last concert.  We look pretty happy!

And in between the concerts on Saturday afternoon I popped over to the Lord Mayor's Carols at the river stage to do a quick bit of puppeting to promote Kidsgames.  Fun!  Rainy - but fun!  Hanging around backstage I spotted The Idea of North, Colin Buchanan, Marina Prior, and chatted a lot with the stage manager and the sound guy.  I felt like a backstage rookie.  But what an opportunity!

Oh yeah - that's Colin Buchanan behind us doing a sound check.

On the River Stage!

Very fun and a great way to use our talents to serve God.