Our singing began rather late at 8.30pm following an over-run SDFS AGM to accommodate some useful feedback and discussions about our events, possible extra sessions to work on our performance skills, and mention of our WInter Revels booked for 25th January next year (tickets now available via the SDFS email address). After a refreshment break to revive us Pleasant and Delightful launched us into song and thereafter the evening focussed on the changing seasons and our next events. In an autumn mood we worked on and enjoyed Where Stormy Winds Do Blow; Poor Froze-out Gardeners; The Fields Lie Silent; All Among the Barley; The Coppers' ‘Winter’ (inserted instead of ‘Christmas') Song and The Woodcutter's Song. Looking further into winter we sang the lovely rounds, Hey Ho Winter Snow and Child of Light, before concluding on a Christmas note with the Sussex Mummers Carol and the Pentonville version of While Shepherds Watched. So ended a productive evening which welcomed four new singers to our fold. We look forward to meeting again at our next Worthing session on 6th November, if not before at the Weald and Downland Museum event on Sunday 3rd November (see the Diary Page and Latest News notices on this website).
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