Tonight we had music evening at our church hall, and it was really amazing, a lot of time and effort had gone into arranging and organising the event, the only thing that did not work for me were the Christmas lights, they really did not add anything to the glamour of the evening...................
There were quite a few acts, one of which was the local doctor and his wife playing violin and piano together........ wow....... they played songs like Memories....... Phantom of the Opera........... You raised me Up............. all songs with words you can understand............ words that are sang.......... not belted forth......... all my favorites not a note off key really first class playing.........
Then we are blessed to have two South African dancing champions in our congregation so they did some dancing for us......... again a really excellent performance............
Then it was the star of the show, "Giovanni" a young singer currently on South Africa's own "Super Stars" and with only a few episodes to go doing very well......... ( I personally do not watch so had actually never heard of him until this evening).
He is Afrikaans speaking so at the beginning of the evening he asked if there were any English people in the audience........ which I am....... so only I put up my hand.................... well............. he spent the whole evening translating............. everything he said which was really very sweet of him.......... except I am fully bilingual so understood every word of every song he sang......... at the end of the evening I went up to get his autograph..... it's a flashback to my youth, I used to collect autographs, and have all the Beatles, Leo Sayer, David Sole, Donny Osmond. Richard Claydermann ............ and when I told him I speak Afrikaans, he laughed and said at least he had some practice speaking English............... I really felt bad..... but it really wasn't done on purpose............. it was quite scary because every time he spoke English he only looked at me and spoke directly only to me.......... now if he was say......... someone from my century that would have been really cool......... but I think he is about 21............. so was quite weird..........
I must say his voice is amazing......... a great time was had by all........... and to show how much I enjoyed it..... he asked everyone to vote for him to help him win so I voted for him....... although what that means will have to be explained by my daughter...............
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ReplyDeleteSounds like an amazingly fun evening...but I'm really impressed that you have all the Beatles autographs! That's cool! Your "Super Star" show sounds like our "American Idol" show..which I don't watch but somehow always find out who wins it!
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