Just to note that there is a bumper Evensong on Sunday 4 May 2008 [NB Corrected date!] at 6.30 pm in St Mary’s. You get two choirs for the price of one as St Mary’s Cathedral Choir are being joined by Glasgow University Chapel Choir. These are two of the most exciting liturgical choirs in Scotland and the prospect of them singing together, with Kevin Bowyer playing the organ is an extraordinary thought.
I’m fascinated at what is happening at Evensong in Cathedrals in the UK at the moment. St Mary’s is not alone in apparently attracting a new crowd whom I’d say were often young, spiritual and loving the sheer beauty of the whole experience. I would never have guessed 10 years ago that I would ever be saying that about Choral Evensong. Indeed, for a very long time I thought it was a has been service which was simply never coming back except as something like the Sealed Knot at prayer.
Sometimes it is wonderful to be gloriously wrong.
[ps – Pentecost Ceilidh tickets now on sale for next week]
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