Singing in The Minster, Preston Guild

This morning Preston Community Choir sang a Guild Anthem written by Lyndon Hills at the Guild Mayor's Thanksgiving Service, held in the Minster Church of St John the Evangelist, Preston.

We were asked to wear black and silver!

This is Joe Martin, our musical director, the website is www.prestoncommunitychoir.com if you'd like to check us out:)

The Minster roof is quite spectacular, don't you think?

The window is more spectacular than my humble camera is able to show!

The church began to fill up with invited guests.

The officials processed down the centre aisle.

The standards looked impressive as they lined up ready to depart.

This was the final event of the Preston Guild week as far as my singing goes.  Following the service we processed through the streets across to the Guild Hall, where, after shaking hands with the dignitaries, we took a glass of wine before adjourning upstairs to enjoy a simple lunch.  

A lovely ending to a very special few days:)

Singing for Preston Guild Proclamation 2 - youtube link

Well, I said I hoped someone would post on youtube, and they did, thank you MrFSCB:)

So, about two minutes in you will hear the Guild anthem announced, and then we sing - simple!  ~I'm standing on the far left behind our young soloist , in front of a lady with a very yellow scarf ~ I still look somewhat like my photo:)  Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZwP-X85bU

Preston Guild knitted diamonds installation

So ... we sewed together a good few hundred knitted diamonds - but why?

Well, Avenham and Miller Parks in Preston were to be the hub of many events for the 2012 Preston Guild celebrations, and the council paid for Rachael to bring together this particular project to create knitted "cosies" for some concrete planters in Avenham Park.

So after the diamonds were sewn together into the correct shapes, the resulting "skirts" were hand sewn on to the planters up the steps. They looked very effective and I saw many people admiring them.

Judge for yourself!

naked planters!

my friend knitted a lovely cross detail on hers

my textured blues were across from my friend's at the foot of the steps by happy coincidence:)

the "shades of green" piece I sewed

and here it is on a planter

This was a fascinating project to be involved with, we really enjoyed the experience:)