Waiting for Christmas

Last night we felt obliged to support our community by going to a concert at the church.  By some tortuous connection between a villager and their relative, a 50 strong choral group from Brive La Gaillarde, about an hour north of us, descended to give us a free concert loosely based on the lead up to Christmas.

The leader was a young, talented and very enthusiastic lass and the singers were good and well rehearsed.  The programme ranged over classical, from Handel to Karl Jenkins, gospel, and contemporary French, English and Spanish songs.  The concert lasted an hour and a half and ended with the audience being coaxed into performing as well.

We were amused to see in the church a large number of villagers (and the Mayor!) who we had seen the previous evening in the village hall at the retirement party of the local hairdresser.  And we must be getting known as we were greeted by the Mayor and we received nods of acknowledgement from a number of other locals.