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Orlando Strong
8 years ago
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For those people who don't know it, my husband and I are founding members of the Orlando Gay Chorus. Our group has been singing for 27 years.
The BBC did an excellent story on us recently, and I thought I'd share the link to it with you all.
http://a.msn.com/09/en-gb/BBCoo2C?ocid=se
Tomorrow will be the 1 year anniversary of the Pulse massacre. We will be spending most of the day downtown. I'm sure there will be a quick blurb about the event tomorrow on national news.
The chorus will be performing, and my husband & I will be there. We'll be singing with the chorus, then with a small group, and finally the grande finale with 200 choral singers, all on a stage that will likely be too small for us... (did I mention there will be dancers?) So it should be quite a show!
The BBC did an excellent story on us recently, and I thought I'd share the link to it with you all.
http://a.msn.com/09/en-gb/BBCoo2C?ocid=se
Tomorrow will be the 1 year anniversary of the Pulse massacre. We will be spending most of the day downtown. I'm sure there will be a quick blurb about the event tomorrow on national news.
The chorus will be performing, and my husband & I will be there. We'll be singing with the chorus, then with a small group, and finally the grande finale with 200 choral singers, all on a stage that will likely be too small for us... (did I mention there will be dancers?) So it should be quite a show!
I'm kind of at a loss for words, but check out my next journal posting.
We had a 3PM sound check, and then nothing until the show was scheduled to start at 7:00. With the number of people coming into the area for the ceremony, we knew we couldn't leave and expect to find any parking when we got back (as it was, we got the last spot in the parking lot we like to use (it's only a block from the bandshell)). Not to mention traffic. So we walked around the lake to a pizza place for pizza and ice tea. When we started walking back, we had to pull out our umbrellas. It was a light rain, but our waiting area was outside. So we were all holding umbrellas and standing (or sitting on wet concrete).
Before our performance we had to line up behind the bandshell (on the plus side, it did stop raining), but had to share the space with the 49 angels (okay, if I sound like I'm complaining... well, I am. But the poor angels were wearing PVC pipe forms draped with white sheets. They were in those get-ups for over two hours).
So the chorus was the only choral group asked to sing TWO songs. When we finished, we dashed offstage, some of us went into the dressing room to slip on a solid col9red shirt, circle back around, and come onstage with the Orlando United chorus to sing What the World Needs Now.
Then we ran offstage, circled back around and waited for the reading of the 49 names of the victims of the Pulse massacre, with one angel going out to represent each angel. Then we went out with a mass choir to perform Love Can Move Mountains. We exited into the audience and Steve & I sprinted to the parking lot. It was 10PM, and our parking pass expired at 9:40. Fortunately his car wasn't towed, not was the windshield adorned with a soggy parking ticket, but we got out of downtown before the usual downtown post event gridlock (seriously... we only went to one Fourth of July celebration due to it).
We had some ice cream, and then some beer, and are begging on the sofa before bedtime.
We're not setting an alarm for tomorrow!