Winter 2007

Hi from Enigma!

Has anybody recovered from the Convention weekend yet?? What a great time was had by all, and a great venue too – much better than the last time Convention was at the BIC, when we had to stand in our stage wear while people in swimming costumes wandered past!!

We’d like to offer huge congratulations to Havoc and to The White Rosettes for their well-deserved Gold Medals – we hope they all have a wonderful championship year and enjoy every moment.

Thank you also to all who supported our “Sung with a loving kiss”(SWALK) on the Friday where we raised well in excess of £60 in donations for the Breast Cancer charity.

We seemed to be extremely busy at Convention although neither Enigma nor Signature were competing, but Enigma was even more busy at the IABS convention in Cork 3 weeks previously. We were whisked off all over the place to sing….the library, the Music College (50+ Steinway pianos!), the maternity hospital (!!), and best of all, RTE radio for a live broadcast! And of course we were thrilled to win the International Gold Medal against stiff opposition from quartets from Europe, Sweden, & the UK and USA. Mind you, before the competition, we were in some kind of kitchen area warming up when they said we had already been announced, so it was a rather unseemly scramble to get to the stage – only to find we were coming on from stage right rather than stage left, so more unseemly scrambling to reverse our positions took place before we stumbled on to the stage somewhat short of breath!

So now we look towards the Christmas period – we have the Guildford Show, the Thames Valley Chorus show and also a big carol concert (with Valerie Singleton as compere!), so perhaps we’d better knuckle down and learn some Christmas songs! May we wish all of you a very Happy Christmas and our best wishes for 2008.
Steph, Rowena, Sue & Sue
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