Easter 2019

Photo: Jarosław Pocztarski

Last weeks session was unfortunately back to basics with only three singers to celebrate or otherwise mark Easter with songs overtly religious, comedy, political, historical and everything else. While we put a slightly early stop to proceedings we got though an impressive thirty songs - yes, ten each!

This Friday's session at The Bridge Inn will have an optional theme of St George, or William Shakespeare's birthday (and death day, we are told) if you prefer.

Easter 2015

Charmian Bernays, aged 8,
Toowoomba, Queensland in 1922

We were a bit thin on the ground this week. Not least because, as we heard last week, Maggie has been in the wars, and I heard that Lesley may also be suffering (unconfirmed report). Get well soon ladies and come back to us. Friday was Good Friday, so there were Easter-themed songs about though we didn't all step up to the plate in that respect.

Colin was MC and he asked Derek to start us off. Derek started as he meant to go on, taking us almost on a stations of the cross tour of Easter, his first being A Week Before Easter (Roud 154). He followed that up with Maundy Thursday in the shape of Judas (Child 23), then on to Good Friday with Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day.

Finally on this strand Easter Day, or rather the Easter Rising, was represented by The Women of Cumann na mBan, (The Soldiers of Cumann na mBan). Derek picked this as being the most difficult to spell in the log book for MC, Colin, who had headed him off at the pass earlier by singing his original choice, The Foggy Dew (Canon Charles O’Neill).