New Zealand is under there somewhere…
The last to return of the three choirs I sing with that are currently functioning was Gloucester Choral Society. It looks as if auditioning for this choir was one of my best decisions of 2020 (not, admittedly, a year in which there have been many decisions for me to make). Although I think it is slightly smaller than Bristol Choral Society, more GCS members are coming to rehearsals in person, possibly because Zoom rehearsals are not offered as an alternative. Or maybe it is just the attraction of being in the Cathedral. At the moment the Gaia exhibition is installed so I had the globe suspended above my place in the nave.
Singing spaced apart in a very resonant acoustic is not easy, but there is the compensation that this is the only choir of the three not to make you wear a face covering. I wasn’t in the best of voice but that didn’t really matter.
