Jacq, Dan and I, plus bits of the family and some of meta4 (Dan and my barbershop quartet) went to check out Idea of North singing at the beautiful Nairn theatre at All Saints School in Merrimac QLD on Thursday 30th.   All the usual singing groupies were there, Brett Logan from the Blenders, George Frame even turned up (haven’t seen him in years) + some of the guys from Rosella Jam - Josh, Joe, Marsha, Catherine and Margaret.

What a night!    

ION had been work-shopping vocals all day with the choirs from All Saints and The Southport School (TSS) - At the concert, the first half had the choirs singing, and the various school brass bands decided to get up and strut their stuff as part of the first half program.  A high point was a Charles Mingus jazz number by TSS - really outstanding.  Also featuring was Rob Goodale’s daughter (I think?) singing a solo number.  First half finished off with ION singing Fragile  with combined TSS and All Saints choirs in the background.

After the break, ION took to the stage and performed a fine set of music covering show tunes, haunting ballads, comedy routines and a spot of gospel. ION have a stand-in soproano who’s taking Trish’s place (maternity leave I think this year) and she did brilliantly, standing out on the vocalease number they did, (which for me was a highlight) and also the toy story 2 song “when we were young”…

After I got talking to Nick and we had a rave about Jon Hendricks (vocalease master from the 60’s) .  Hoping to catch up with Nick in Sydney’s National barbershop convention where Dan and I will be competing with Meta4…

See ya soon,

Mikey

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