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06 / 02 / 2010 - Stephen

We had a wonderful start last night to this latest tour of North America with a return visit to upstate New York and to the historic town of Schenectady NY. The town has one of those real delights of a concert Hall - in that turn of the century, vaudeville style - and seats a staggering number of people. We were fortunate to play to a pretty close to full auditorium as we featured and opened the show with former tenor Bob Chilcott's American folk song arrangements called Simple Gifts (sounds like a Grammy winning album I know!) - after the shaker hymn and final piece of the set by the same name. I remember Bob arranging these pieces towards the end of 1987 for a concert we were preparing to singing in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the following January. At the start of each calendar year we would give a concert at this prestigious venue in London's South bank to premiere and showcase new repertoire, programme ideas etc. This particular concert at the start of January 1988 saw the premiere of these arrangements and still to this day have the singing line up of the time written alongside the voice parts in the original handwritten arrangements. It was nice to see so many friends at last night's concert including long time K's supporters Solange and Anne-Marie Rousseau who made their way down from Canada to see the show - their support of the group has been amazing over many years. When they told my how far they had travelled that day, I told them that at least it was all downhill from Canada...  till Soon Stephen