African Children's Choir

Last night at our cathedral in Burlington, the African Children's Choir performed. It's pretty amazing to see a bunch of 7-10 year olds from Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa all together. They are incredibly energetic, dancing while they sing. The four young drummers did a fabulous job and the children uniformly smiled and smiled.


Compa took these photos with a super-duper lens (I can't remember what it is other than it is so big that one attaches the lens, not the camera, to the tripod and swivels the camera to get vertical or horizontal shots). She took this from a good distance.


These kids are seasoned performers: even though there was a false fire alarm*, they kept on singing and dancing as the raucous and rather obnoxious fire alarm bleated, even as the fire trucks arrived. And even though they had to stop mid number so we could all evacuate the building until the firefighters were sure all was OK, when we all streamed back in, they picked up right where they left off. That was worth a standing ovation right there.

*We tend to be a bit sensitive about our cathedral and fire since someone torched the first one in 1973 (along with the Roman Catholic cathedral up the street). A lovely Gothic building burned to the ground and in its place (not in the same location) a concrete building in the style of architectural brutalism was built. It would be harder for this one to go up in smoke but we're not tempting fate.