28/09/2025
A fantastic concert, so glad to be part of this wonderful group for the past 10 years! ❤️🎵😊
🎶🎶🎶 And that’s a wrap! 🎶🎶🎶
We’re 3 days on from the 10th Anniversary show at CAST and I’ve finally managed to clear some headspace to sit and write this. It was everything we dreamed it could be, and more. I don’t think any words on this post can do justice to that evening. You had to be there! (And you were there… in your hundreds!!)
Thank you to everyone involved in making the night happen - our amazing special guest performers, our sponsors and VIPs, the venue team for looking after us, everyone involved beforehand with T-shirts, programmes etc and our brilliant committee and stage manager Hayley who made sure I didn’t go crazy with all the planning and implementing of the logistics of running a show like that!
Thank you to everyone who came along and supported the night by buying tickets. Some of you travelled quite a distance to be with us and we’re so grateful for the support! Looking out from the stage at a packed house is the stuff of dreams for us. And it was packed! Thank you!
Lastly, and most importantly, thank you and well done to all of our group members for coming together to make it happen - all the rehearsals, the late nights, the meetings, the documents, the emails etc. it was all worth it! Everyone rose to the occasion, and I could not be a prouder leader!
Someone said to me “it felt like an occasion. Like a wedding. Like a really significant day that everyone in the room feels really invested in going well”. I agree. Everyone made it a magical night.
I started out by saying no words on this post could do the night justice. And reading back what I’ve just written, it really doesn’t fully capture the absolute euphoria of that night and what it means to all of us that were involved. But, if you were there, you’ll get it… it was so special.
Our brilliant official photographer Phil is hard at work getting hundreds of images from the night ready for us (thank you Phil!!) so for now, here’s just one photo, courtesy of Sally Jameson. And to anyone who thinks it was a shame that the night wasn’t recorded… guess what… it was! Paul sneakily set up a camera to record the whole night from the sound desk and we’ll share it with all of our performers soon! 🎥🎥
Oh, and we don’t have the official figures yet, but everyone involved in the night has helped us to donate a LOT of money to the William Appleby Memorial Trust too, some of that money (from our generous sponsors) is already being used to help kids make music in school. 👏
❤️ Thank you all. ❤️
Carl
(The bloke at the front waving a ukulele around and telling bad jokes!)
