Nursing Home Concert

After much anticipation and many hours of practice, today was the day - the children and their cousins hosted their Sunday afternoon concert at the Walkervile Nursing Home. There were seven children aged between 10 and 17, ably assisted by Rebecca on the piano. The concert commenced with a sing-a-long of olden songs with Rebecca. The middle section was a mixture of individual or duets on either the piano, flute or violin followed by the "band". The band consisted of Hannah on the trombone, Luke on the French Horn, Rona and Jenna on the violin, Michelle and Kira on the flute and Stephen on the Clarinet. After this bracket of Australian songs, another sing-a-long was held, this time of Christmas Carols. The residents seemed to enjoy the afternoon with many of them joining in, some quite lustily.
Despite the nervous tension, I think that it was an excellent afternoon. I was very proud of all of them as none of them are real "up front" people. They worked very hard to overcome their fear of performing in front of people. While they would say that they are glad that the afternoon is over, I think they all enjoyed themselves also.
There is no let up in practice however, as there are still several more events lined up - busking in the Mall, another nursing home (this time with folk from church), one more band performance at a school, a family carol service at church and Christmas Caroling to some elderly folk on Christmas Eve.
Just another day (few weeks) in the life of a homeschool family!