Newport Community Choir at the Big Sing

A group of Newport Community Choir singers turned up to the Big Sing at Footscray Community Arts Centre last night. We joined about 70 others from western suburbs choirs including Footscay Multicultural Choir, Brimbank Multicultural Choir, Kensington Choir, Willin Wimmin, Footscray Primary School Choir and SingWest. It's an informal event where the choirs just get together and sing!

With such a big group we really raised the roof with Down in the River to Pray, the Samoan 10-step (a tricky body-percussion sequence that really challenged us), Song From Tennyson and a few other songs taught to us 'on the fly' by the choir leaders. If you've ever seen the Mysterious Ticking Noise video on YouTube...you should hear it performed by an 80-voice choir!
After we were all sung out we feasted on a delicious supper spread (80 'bring-a-plates' is a lot of food!) and left already looking forward to the next one. Thanks to John Howard, Amelia Barden and Jennie Swain for organising the event.