21st November 2023 Singers Night

Hosted by Lance
​We kicked off at 19:35 and I performed ‘Veggies’ and and very cleaned up version of ‘Pick UpYour Dogpoo’ as we had children in the audience.
 
Next was Molly (aged 11) who sang with the aid of a mobile phone 2 songs ‘Tomorrow’ from the musical Annie and ‘A Million Dreams’. Remarkably talented for one so young!!!
 
Chris Martin followed with his songs 'Journey part 2” and “Pan Yan’.  Heather read extracts fromThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald who lived in Seaford).
 
Tito from Italy was up next and sang 2 songs in his native Italian ‘Anna and Marco’ and then ‘Bella Ciao’, accompanied by Jason on guitar.
 
Jason and Lisa up next with their rendition of Steve Still’s song ‘Helplessly Hoping’ and their own composition ‘As The River Flows Along’.
 
Emma was up next and we listened to her recite her poem ‘Christmas’ and then her song ‘Irish Passport’.
 
Heather followed with ‘Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace and her song ‘Calling Out Her Name’, a song about addiction.
 
Frank then performed 2 songs,  ’The Rending Of The Veil’ followed by ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ (and we all joined in).
 
Brenda recited a poem Loneliness and sang ‘How Great Thou Art’.
 
Steph followed with a wartime song about the blackout ‘They Can’t Black Out The Moon’ and ‘Autumn Leaves’ a French song given English lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
 
Mike performed his 2 songs, John Lee Hooker’s ‘I Like To See You Walk’ and Radiohead’s ‘Creep’.
 
Nelson King performed his Christmas song ‘Love and Understanding’ and another of his own songs ’Beautiful Day’.
 
Simon was up next and performed ‘Julia’ and ‘Louisiana’
 
Finally, Dave Dyke and Wendy performed 2 songs, ‘You Got The Blues’ and ‘Can’t Hold On’
 
All in all, a lovely evening!