Seaforde choir on song during sell-out concert

Seaforde choir on song during sell-out concert

29 May 2019

THE ladies of the Seaforde choir, Harmonic Progression, entertained a capacity audience last Thursday night in the Young Farmers’ Hall with a wide variety of songs, poems and sketches.

This was their sixth charity concert and their chosen cause this time was The Cure Parkinson’s Trust.

Choir member Heather Knipe and her husband, John, are joining a group which hopes to climb Mount Fuji in Japan in July in aid of the trust.

One of the group, Mrs Maura Ward, who contracted Parkinson’s several years ago, attended the concert and was presented with a cheque for £1,108.

A further cheque was presented by the choir to Leon Frost, who accepted it on behalf of Seaforde and District Community Association.

Leon gave a brief summary of the work of the association and invited everyone to attend the AGM which will be held on June 20.

During the second half of the show, Heather and John were interviewed in a light-hearted way by choir member Caroline Fairbairn and they told the story of how they came to be involved in the climb and just what it entailed.

A number of nuns then appeared and in a scene reminiscent of the Sound of Music they sang to the Knipes, telling them to remember that they were no longer ‘Sixteen going on Seventeen’ and that they really should have more sense at their age.

The choir went on to sing Climb Every Mountain and finished the show with the very appropriate Mountains of Mourne.