Cripes!

Tonight I will be visiting a church - Baxter Church it is called - at around 7:30.

I shall not be visiting there to attend a church service, nor shall I be turning up in hope of spiritual guidance: I shall in actual fact be turning up with an application form and my bestest and most eager and willing (and nervous) smiles in the hope of joining a choir.

Not just any old informal singing group, the Kidderminster Choral Society is prosperous, professionally run (although due to the fact that the singers do not get paid it is still classed as an "amateur" group) and from what I have been told; very very good indeed. They are supposedly a "non audition" society, meaning that anyone, theoretically, can turn up and join in, but I don't know. Any singing that puts on public concerts - as this one does - must have high standards that need to be adhered to, surely. So despite the assurance of their website* I have the uncomfortable feeling that I might be asked to give them a rendition of something. And while I have a not too bad singing voice with the added ability of being able to harmonize (mother is so jealous of that); singing on my own in front of a group of people is not an idea I relish.
I have come up with a small song that I think might help me through that possible eventuality though. It is called "If All Things Should Perish"; a pretty little ditty designed to be sung in a round. That, hopefully, will show my ability to hold a note - so long as I am not too nervous - while being short enough for me to remember all the words (again, so long as I am not...).

Of course, none of that may happen. Nor may they take an instant glaring dislike to me the second I walk through the door - another of my fears. And if I DO have to prove that I can sing, I may well do it perfectly well and soundly and not make a total, humiliating fool of myself. Everything MAY, in fact; probably will, go very well indeed.

I keep telling myself this.

But I am still nervous as heck.

Cross your fingers for me, Blog.

Tara xxx

* http://www.kidderminsterchoralsociety.co.uk/