Random Musings

Event: Songcraft Mini-Concert ’09 “Originally Yours”
Date: 21st Nov ’09
Time: 730pm-930pm
Venue: Play Den@Arts House

What can I say?

Another annual Songcraft concert (our 3rd one so far), another highly-memorable event.

Now I am quite an easily-satisfied person, but in all honesty…I really felt that everything went PERFECT tonight.

And I really want to thank God for that.

From the moment I stepped into the Play Den at 4:55pm, and I saw all 3 mics set up nicely on 3 mic stands with 3 accompanying music stands, I knew it was going to be a good night.

(That was exactly what I had requested for from the Arts House folks.)

My biggest worry was the turnout, cos I was worried about both overcrowding and undercrowding. (You can never predict how many people will turn up for something like this, cos it is not a ticketed event.)

But it turned out beautifully…cos the Play Den was filled just nice for the entire night.

And I had some friends who sprang a pleasant surprise on me by turning up tonight.

Amazing.

A lot has to be said about the beautiful venue, i.e. the Play Den.

I thought it was a pleasant upgrade from the Choral Studio at the YMS.

Not to say the Choral Studio was inferior…but it probably didn’t suit our needs as well as the Play Den did.

The atmosphere in the Play Den was remarkable. (If you’ve noticed, I’m trying to see how many different positive adjectives I can use by the end of this blog post.)

The lighting was great, and ambience was cosy, and the acoustics were fantastic.

I really think a lot of the success of tonight’s concert could be attributed to the venue.

And of course, the stars of the show were the 20 songs by the various songwriters…and they certainly didn’t disappoint.

We were treated to songs of various genres and themes, but all beautiful nonetheless.

At the end of the day, we’ve not lost our focus – it’s always about the songs.

It is a showcase of original songs…songs written by your average joes living in Singapore, people like you and me.

Songs written by people who love music enough to pick up the guitar or go to the piano to create an original song of our own.

It is really an honour to know of so many wonderful, gifted and passionate songwriters in Singapore.

*P.S. Thank you to all who are reading this who turned up for the mini-concert tonight. Really appreciate your show of support!

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Future?

Songcraft has been around for almost 3 full years, and we’ve gone through 3 annual concerts.

We’ve certainly come quite a way.

It has been a most magical journey.

(When music is involved…it’s always going to be magical.)

What does the future hold? Will there be a 4th concert?

Nobody knows. It’s hard to look too far in the future sometimes.

I guess we will have to wait and see what the future holds.

We can’t be too sure of tomorrow.

But what we can be sure of is that the memories of yesterday were certainly great.

One big happy group of songwriters