AYR COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR
Summer Concert 2nd June 2013
A wonderful evening of praise, entertainment and glorious music; provided by QV Brass, The Gordon Anderson Praise Band, The Salvation Army's Erskine Community Choir, and our own Ayr Community Gospel Choir (A.C.G.C.).
A.C.G.C. continues to raise funds for chosen charities. For our 2013 summer concert the recipients were “The Salvation Army-Scottish Summer Music of School” and “Vulnerable Families in Pregnancy”.
QV Brass started the evening with a rousing rendition of The Champions.
Hosted by Castlehill Church of Scotland the Rev. Liz Crumish once again welcomed The Salvation Army to Castlehill.
Straight into the programme the A.C.G.C. accompanied by Robert Dibden on piano, performed two songs, first “There Is a New Song" the theme of our concert followed by "You Are The Light".
The Worship Band led the congregation in songs like “Lord, I Lift Your Name on High” and other favourites.
QV Brass delighted us as cornet soloist Alex Ramsay played “My Love is like a Red Red Rose”. This was followed by our guest choir who treated us to a beautiful rendition of "The Rose" accompanied by Ian and Rebekah Pye on the violin. There followed another soloist from QV brass with a rendition of "Take up Thy Cross" played by Luke Williams on trombone.
Stuart McKinley entertained us with his presentations, the first an amusing monologue based around a director of a theatre group assessing their performance of Shakespeare's “Hamlet”. Stuarts’ second item was "The Conversion of St Paul" by John Betjeman.
Back came the A.C.G.C. with "Thank You Lord" then a stirring rendition of "Covenant" Lt Cheryl Stone joined Bobby Irvine in a duet before being joined by the choir in an uplifting finish.
Well into the second half QV Brass received tumultuous applause as they presented "Fire in the Blood" by Paul Lovatt-Cooper and "Crimond" by Peter Graham.
The joint choirs sang "Only thy Blood", "I Believe", an arrangement by Robert Dibden, and then closed with "David Danced". The solo part was performed by first time vocal soloist Andrew Irvine.
For the finale QV Brass raised the roof with their rendition of “River Dance”.
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