A GREAT NIGHT WAS HAD AT GATTON’S COLONIAL CAFÉ IN CELEBRATION OF 2024

 

There is something wonderful about becoming a member of the Esk Community Choir.  You come along to your first rehearsal a relative stranger and leave it as part of a Choir family.   And so it was on Tuesday 10^th of December that this amazing Choir family gathered at Gatton’s Colonial Café to kick back and celebrate having made it to the end of another wonderful year of making music together. 

Should one do a quick rehash over the many events during 2024 one would be forgiven for feeling the saturation effects of a very busy year.  However, this evening was not a time to be clocking out and with everyone seated around the tables decorated as tastefully as the Christmas fare served, the high spirits soon surfaced.  With Grace steering the entertainment with her innate flare and joie de vivre, so many took to the microphone with all the confidence of a pro, inhibitions out the window, all a nod to the versatility and talents apparent in this choir.

To Ruth Sk. whose contributions to choir are far too extensive to fit on this page …but we all know…and to Alexis, the beating heart of our choir who has brought us all along for the ride for the past 46 years;  for her love and belief in her choir; her kindly spirit which shines through at rehearsals making us all feel that this choir business is a whole lot of fun and not hard work,  we give our utmost thanks.  

Another year gone…a new year approaching with already a showcase of wonderful events to enjoy.  Bring it on I say!!!!  

By: Sue Walker   

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2023 -ANOTHER MAGICAL YEAR FOR THE ESK COMMUNITY CHOIR

 

Well, here we are again! Who’d have thought it? Certainly not Alexis who 45 years ago when she was a young girl of just 33 with a house full of kids and six ladies enjoying a singsong around her piano that her Esk Community Choir would still be going…nay vibrant and thriving all these years later!

It’s in the interests of holding strong this writer’s new year’s resolution for 2024 that she will be keeping her briefs brief; that rather than write a recap of this year’s events, it will suffice to say that it has been a year of many highs and some lows, and some lows that became highs but oh what highs we have had!

From those very early ‘wonder years’ through the challenges of performances of every genre, to pandemics and stumbles through a tech-savvy world, Alexis has laughed, cried… mostly happy tears… and allowed the rest of us to come along for the ride.  But her signature characteristic is her love and appreciation of her choir; her energy and empathy fused with a generous and kindly spirit which shines through at our rehearsals and reflected in our performances which have kept generations of audiences entertained for all these years.

To have gathered at the Colonial Café in the Lockyer Valley Cultural Centre as a choir family to mark the end of this anniversary year was as fitting as it gets.  A big thank you to Ruth Sk. for shepherding everyone through a fabulous evening. It was only right that this choir all share in celebrating with delightful food, great entertainment, funny, insightful, and occasionally, sensible moments together.

Though it will never be forgot, this year is now ‘Auld Lang Syne’.  2024 is that new year to collectively decide to again move forward together and drink from that cup of kindness yet.  Bring it on I say!!!

Merry Christmas to you all.

By: Sue Walker

Linda von Nida 

Christine Caldwell

Di Chaplin

Jan Jennings  & Kathie Watts 

Eric von Nida 

Helene Hawes

Roland Cox

Alexis, Ruth, Suzanne

Caitlin, Di, Jo, Ruth & Judy 

Ruth and Alexis