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Thread #24688   Message #285960
Posted By: hesperis
27-Aug-00 - 01:46 AM
Thread Name: Solo Unaccompanied Singing and Songs
Subject: RE: Solo Unaccompanied Singing and Songs
My favorite performance ever was the time when my family sang Christmas Carols in a local mall.
We got a really good response from people, and it was so much fun! I was totally not nervous, and back then, I was usually tied up in knots before a performance.

My stepdad sings bass-baritone on the melody, my mother sings alto on harmony, and I sing alto usually doubling the melody. Sometimes my mother and I switch parts, and sometimes I sing descant if my stepdad feels comfortable carrying the melody by himself.

(The thing that really amazed me was how many people didn't sing along with us!
I still don't understand why they didn't...)

One woman came by with a very young baby. (I don't know babies, so I can't tell how old it was.) My mother sang a song to it, and it stayed quiet the whole time. The woman was amazed. I wasn't, because I know my mother can sing!
(Hey, if she could sing me to sleep, she can sing any baby to sleep!)

We were a capella for the whole thing. We sang for a few hours, and several people thanked us for brightening their Christmas shopping.
It was so much fun!

Sometimes me and my mother sing carols on the bus. Several of the bus drivers in Orillia know me as "that girl with the angel voice." (They're really sweet people.)

~*sirepseh*~