It might sound a little corny saying thank you every time we do a concert, but this time it just seems extra right. It’s the second year in a row that we were welcomed back to Faroe Islands, to be a part of “Korstævnet”, a yearly choir summit for local singers with or without a choir.
We just got back from the beautiful Faroe Islands, and it is truly somewhere special to go. First of all the nature and sights of the islands are something we danes rarely see. Tall mountains and big rocks, compared to our fields and flat country. Second the people of Faroe Islands just seem a little nicer than the average “strangers”, well actually that’s not quite true, for the people who tend to invite us, tend to be really nice people – but then again, this time we had traditional Faroe dancing. Last but not least does the Faroe Islands have a rarely well preserved choir tradition, which means that when it comes to singing traditional tunes together – they do this in 3-4 voices without any songbook or sheet music. What a contrast to the traditional danish family get-together.
Let’s groove
Jim Daus Hjernøe was invited to be one of the instructors of the choir summit. The choir singers were taught three groovy vocal arrangements, in true Voxnorth style. Two of the pieces with percussion and beatbox, one tune had a body stomp element, one had a small improvised part and the last tune was lead by the two Voxnorth singers Natasja and Claus, in a beautiful duet version of Peter Gabrials “Don’t give up” backed up by the 150 local voices. Such a beautiful experience.
Friday night was Voxnorth night, we gave a full-size concert with the best from our catalogue and saturday afternoon the choir summit ended in one big concert with all the tunes learned at the summit plus a little Voxnorth feature.
Who can say No to a party?
It is a tradition of the “Korstævnet” to end with a party, and this was not any different this year. Great food, great beer, great music, great singing, great speeches and not least great people.
All in all there’s not much else to say than: Thank you!
Hope to see you all again.
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