TUNES ON A TUESDAY FOR TWO:

Esk Community Choir at Regis Valley Views Gatton

There were some songs old, some new, some kind of borrowed but there was nothing blue about the atmosphere at Gatton's Regis Valley View and Laidley's Tabeel, two homes for the Aged, when the ESK COMMUNITY CHOIR brought their legendary brand of "Service in Song" and smiles to the faces of the delightful groups of predominantly elderly people on Tuesday 18th June.

Not even the declaration of a misplaced hearing device, in the case of one kindly old cove, could deter the enthusiasm of both these wonderfully appreciative audiences for the music of the Choir as Alexis FitzGerald and her Choristers served up a taste of nostalgia with some of the old celebrated tunes many of the residents were sure to have sung around someone else's piano more than half a century ago. 

There was music from the Musicals, songs to stir the heart strings and Nursery Rhymes unlike any most would have heard before with,  amongst others, "Tommy Stout" coming to the rescue of a well-bedraggled moggy and any pacemakers present were surely superfluous when Miss Muffet's nemesis, the spider,  managed to scare the living daylights out of everyone, including the Choir!!!  With apologies to Bach, the finalé had feet a'tapping to the beat of "Bach-a-Rock" and then it was time to go.

There is power in an appreciative audience.  It's enough to make a Choir want to come back!!

by: Sue Walker

Regis Views  GattonAudience

Tabeel Laidley Audience

John Caffin solo 'Perhaps Love'

Hamming it up with 'Pussy from the Well'