A sold out crowd, a sunny sky and the castle looking down on the event. The perfect setting for a big choral effort.
With a singing master leading proceedings (taking over from a Radio Forth DJ) we had three community choirs performing a couple of numbers each. One mixed voices, one women only, one male voice, with one from Edinburgh and two from Glasgow. All interesting perfromances, but by far the most ineresting was the female voice collective, comprised of women from other nations, often refugees, and songs of liberation and struggle.
Then it was time to give the audience a bit of instrcution and practice in an arrangement of one of Scotland's best loved songs, to be fronted by the singer/songwriter who made it famous. Getting it right provided some laughs, but it was just about there by the time Dougie MacLean took the stage, joined by a scratch choir to help out. The song was, of course, Caledonia, and it did sound good. Another couple of numbers from Dougie, a final rendition of the anthem, and that was that.
A pleasantly gentle and fun way to spend some of a Sunday afternoon.
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