Clare Choir
has been at
the very heart
of my
experience
of Cambridge
Josh and Toby begin the Switzerland tour blog, beginning in beautiful Lucerne.
more >Our Michaelmas 2017 Termcard is now available to view online! We look forward a fantastic term ahead. See 'Chapel Services' for details.
more >Our day began with a few well-deserved drinks in the bar in the early hours of the morning upon a very late arrival to the hotel. Unfortunately, this meant that two of our writers missed breakfast in order to get their all-imortant 7 hours of sleep - however, Harriet “Smoked Salmon!” Caisley as always turned up faithfully at 8:30am for her only solo of the tour, breakfast for one. At the leisurely hour of 12:15pm, the choristers rolled one by one into the coach, where it was discovered that Kit “Dude where’s my car?” Holliday was blissfully unaware of the location of his music, much to the chagrin of Jess “I Need a Ladder” Kinney, who had picked up his abandoned folder from the church in Amstelveen over 12 hours earlier. Following a swift telling off, music and aloof basses alike boarded the coach intact, and on we went to Apeldoorn.
more >Another day, another concert, another round of Grahamography™. Controversially, our first concert in the Netherlands featured some radical changes to the now legendary routine. Nick “I didn’t like the postlude anyway” Morris and Tom “Allain” Ashton valiantly rose to the challenge of assimilating previously unseen moves into their stellar performances, including the ground-breaking ‘step forward’ and the arguably more revolutionary ‘step backward’. Earlier in the day, Harriet “onboard entertainment system” Caisley had greatly contributed to the choir’s holistic education with a comprehensive video review of the many fashionable and pragmatic advantages of woven turtleneck jumpers in the form of a compulsory group viewing of Love Actually.
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