Crafty Outing

On Saturday members of the Croydon Band put on a short performance in Penge. The event was a Craft Fair (hence the odd title) at St John's Church Penge. St John's is a "proper" Church, built around 150 years ago it has nave, chancel, tower, spire, Lady Chapel, and all that sort of thing, that some of us on the more happy clappy wing of the C of E don't really recognise any more. http://www.penge-anglicans.org/ It was a good event, well attended with lots of stalls and customers, so when we played there were plenty of people listening, we even got some applause! As I say there were plenty of stalls, unfortunately for me some were selling cakes and fudge, - so there goes me being supportive of the dieters in the household! It was nice to support a local event and at the same time publicise our upcoming concert. This concert is now less than a week away and I will admit to getting nervous. At the moment I am more nervous about conducting this local concert with the brass band than I was last week playing with ASO at the Albert Hall. That is now a couple of events that we have played at where we have pulled the programme from the pieces we will be playing at the concert, we have two more rehearsals but I feel we are getting to the point of being about as prepared as we can be, music wise. We still need to sort out the catering, printing the programme and some stewards, I really don't want to get too involved in this stuff so I can concentrate on the music, but hey ho that's the way things go. So now I'm going to sit down and write a nice flattering biog of myself that makes me sound like a real musician and conductor, after all the two don't always go together!