As you can see, we are undergoing a bit of site renovation here. Please bear with things that look strange.
So, what's new?
- Updated blog for our Christmas activities
- New videos from our latest carolling (check out O Holy Night)
- New blog music!
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O Holy Night |
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Christmas Midnight: This was an impromptu arrangement of this beautiful carol, done but a day before Christmas Eve. Kudos to Aloy and Josh
for being super brave to take this on, last minute. =)
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Ding Dong Merrily On High |
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Christmas Midnight: Medley of the Year, 'Ding Dong Merrily on High' and 'Good King Wenceslas', graciously brought to you by Irene!
=)
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What Child Is This |
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Christmas Midnight: Joshua on the solo part, a haunting counter melody called...
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O Come All Ye Faithful |
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Christmas Midnight: Very grand rendition of O Come All Ye Faithful.
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All Man's Labour Can Produce |
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When A Child Is Born |
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Christmas Midnight: Yet another impromptu solo, this time, from Steffi. Irene on the emotional soliloquy, and Steffi again on the ending.
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Hark The Herald Angels Sing |
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Christmas Midnight: Another grand rendition of this timeless classic. So nice to hear the whole congregation behind us!
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Joy To The World |
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Christmas Midnight: Bringing Christmas Midnight 2009 to a joyous end!
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Carolling 2009 |
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Carolling 2009: Caroling with Jubilate on 12, 13, 19 & 20 Dec 2009. Madness, but in a nice way.
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It's Christmas time once again and to kickstart the Christmas season and Christmas cheer, Jubilate Choir embarked on our annual Christmas carolling session. We welcomed some new members joining us for the first time and we made our presence felt in several community locations in addition to our house-to-house sessions. This year we visited the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Marine Parade Central, Geylang East Home For the Aged, Aljunied GRC's Christmas party and Queenstown GRC/Beyond Social Services' Christmas Party. Our carolling sessions began on the 12th of Dec when our choir started the day by making cloth flowers in preparation for our old folks home visit. Right after packing up, we headed down to Marine Parade Central for our debut public performance. Although we faced some problems with the sound systems and adapting to the new singing environment, we managed to overcome the problems faced and pulled off a wonderful opening performance. The next day, 13th of Dec, we visited the old folks at Geylang East Home For The Aged. The old folks were very enthusiastic, joining in the singing and clapping as we sang various Christmas carols. Ending with we wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS, we to each and every one of the old folks the cloth flowers as a memento and little gift.  The old folks smiled joyfully as they received their gifts and wished us warmly. We chatted and accompanied them as they enjoyed a Jackie Chan Film on television.The following week, 19th of Dec, Jubilate carolled at Tan Tock Seng Hospital!  Our carolling session was meant to spread joy to patients as well as their family members and all the other people there. Smiling as we carolled, the audience enjoyed our performance, clapping and swaying to the beat of the music. Some curious children peered out from behind their parent's backs whenever we sang songs about Santa or Rudolph. The day ended with Jubilate singing carols at Nicholas's house in Dakota Crescent where we had the company of Emma and her partner as they danced along with us to the songs . On the final day of our carolling before Christmas, the 20th of Dec, Jubilate Choir made our way to the Aljunied GRC at a pavilion in Joo Seng Road, just a stone’s throw away from our church to sing at the community Christmas party, with guest-of-honour Dr Fatimah Lateef. Jubilate carollers had their cute little Santa hairbands and hats on while waiting for Clifford to set up the guitar and speakers.  Once we were given the cue to start, we swayed from left to right with wide smiles stretched across our faces, trying to egg them to sing along with us and to be in the Christmas Spirit. The Carollers took turns to dish out the dishes for the people attending the party too. After serving, the Carollers started eating lunch before resuming their round of carolling. There was a magician performing magic tricks and stunts to impress the crowd, including card tricks, rope tricks and colour tricks. As the magician needed assistants Colleen and Zac were pulled out to join the magician in one of his tricks. The finale was spectacular and breath-taking involving the full spectrum of colours and it warmed the crowd up for us to sing a second session of carols with them. The afternoon was spent at the Queenstown GRC to take part in a Christmas party for the children of Beyond Social Services. Showtime began at 4pm when Carollers stood at their designated spots assigned earlier to prepare for the game. Verena prepared an icebreaker game to sort the children into categories - length of hair, attire, age. The game began quite abruptly, however children were quickly and excitedly squealing and running about looking for the category they belonged to. Afterwards, the children were split into groups led by Choir members to prepare for the main activity - dressing up the models into various Christmas characters: Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus and Christmas Tree. The models cat-walked across the stage to present themselves to the kids.  After drawing lots to see which character the guys have to dress up as, the models went to their respective groups and started getting dressed up! The kids, all hyped up and energetic, used their creativity and began cutting newspapers, crushing newspapers into balls, pasting crepe paper, etc, to the apprehension of some models.   Soon everybody was involved. When it was time to present the models, the guys, wondrously and somewhat precariously decked out, were seen somewhat limping up the stairs towards the stage.  The winners were announced and prizes were given out. Although it had been a chaotic scene then, seeing the children’s brightly lit faces made us sure they enjoyed themselves.The final performance of the day was a last performance at Marine Parade Central. It was a total blast. Big Bang!!! Jubilate carollers sang as though there was no tomorrow and we are sure the audience felt it. Several members of the audience were singing along and the presence of Santa and his Santarinas in was enough to make the Christmas spirit felt very strongly.  All of our hard work paid of in one night with the flood of applause and well wishes. We ended the day with a small in-house Christmas Party at Dawn's place. Wrapping up our Christmas carolling 2009, it was an immensely tiring but enriching experience. All the friendships made and the lives we managed to touch, even a little bit, made the whole thing worth while. On that note, we wish one and all a Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year 2010! :D  To see more pictures, visit our PHOTO ALBUM. Written by Joshua & Ruth |
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