Worthing Local Group Report - Wednesday June 8th 2022

 25 of us were at the Barn this month, with Emily leading, and newcomer Karen joining us and adding her voice to the harmonies; welcome Karen!   We launched with “Country Life” and continued with a selection of other songs also on the set list for the Stansted Garden Show event - “Jim the Carter Lad”, "Ale Glorious Ale”, “When Spring Comes In”, Gooches Beer”, “Bee Boys Song”, "One For the Rook”, "Oak and Ash and Thorn”, and last but not least, “Hard Times of Old England”, this time sung by men and women together. “Jolly Good Song”, not one we often do at sessions, was tuned to get the best start note and suitably enough heralded a break for refreshment.  “Turmut Hoer” followed before attention turned again to “Oldland Mill” to work on the lyrics, without the words in front of us, and to layer in the harmonies.  Emily briefed us about plans for our sing at the Weald and Downland Midsummer event on June 18th, and with little time left "Thousands or More” was requested as a good one to round off the evening.

Two other songs were discussed, but with no time to do more than this.  The first being different words for “The Lark in the Morning” (found in the Coppers Song Book) - and the second, the “Lamas Carol” and the harmony parts prepared for it.  We look forward to having time for both at our July meeting.   REMINDER - our July meeting at the Barn sees the start of our recently agreed change to the 1st Thursday of the month - so we'll be singing there again on Thursday July 7th.