One of our friends from church (who also happens to be Hannah's trombone teacher) plays in the Police Band. He managed to snag us free tickets to their Christmas Concert held in the City Town Hall. David's full time job is to play the trombone for this band. The concert was amazing and during intermission, David took us all back stage and then onto the stage! One of the musicians dressed in his nightshirt and night cap and narrated The Night Before Christmas while the band played certain parts. Santa and his band of elves even paid a visit. It was a very good evening - something which we don't experience very often. Thanks David!
Today the children and their cousins again headed into the city, this time so that they could busk in Rundle Mall. None of them had done anything like this before so it was a real experience for them. We had Hannah on the trombone, Jenna on the violin and percussion, Luke on the French Horn, Kira and Michelle on the flute and Stephen on the clarinet. Hannah applied for a permit at the cost of $2.50 and one of the rules was that you had to move on every half hour so that you didn't annoy the shopkeepers. They played a mixture of Australian songs from band and Christmas Carols, some of which Hannah had arranged. The children wanted to play just for the fun of it but had said that any money they managed to make they would give to charity. We were all very surprised when we added up the total of "small change" that people had placed in the pot - the grand total of $63.65! Not bad for one hours work! They will use the money to buy groceries that will be given to needy families through Anglicare.
The children had a lot of fun and are already planning to do it again! Here are some photos.
2 comments:
aww to fun i know my sister use to make us do stuff like that its to fun thay have good memories i know i do ;)
Oh wow!!! YEah I used to do stuff like that with my church youth group. LOTS OF FUN!!!
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