Sing for Water West - at the morning's rehearsal[/caption]Blues skies and wall to wall sunshine met our choir of 1,000 voices all gathered for Sing for Water West in Bristol on Saturday. At least 39 community choirs were represented, with wonderful names like Sing Aloud, The Wiltshire Wailers (my choir - yay!) and Gasworks.
The geographical spread of choristers included Devon, Portsmouth, Abergavenny, Stroud and Birmingham, so we covered more than just the West! Everyone wore blues and greens to represent the watery theme of our fundraising and songs.
The hot sunshine meant we were soon queuing to top up our water supplies from the stand pipes provided - a neat reminder of why we had gathered to support WaterAid. Thankfully our water was clean, cool and available just a few yards away, not the dirty, tepid water often situated miles away from the billion people who have no choice but to use it.
You may be wondering from the above picture if anyone turned up to hear us. Well, I did spot Mark Charlton and his family amongst the crowd, but I was too busy singing away in the afternoon to take any pictures! However, the Bristol Evening Post were there to capture some of the atmosphere - the last picture in their gallery of 10 photos gives you a fair idea of the size of both the audience and choir :)
Two years ago, 850 of us sang and raised over £50,000 for WaterAid. Hopefully when all the monies are in and totted up, we'll have easily topped that figure after such an exhilarating day!
Update: Someone's asked who's reporting on this story - I can reveal it was yours truly, your Community Link-Up editor aka smithsnews :)
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