A Song for Everything

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas & blessings for the New Year! Hope your day is filled with family, fun and laughter. Keep safe & enjoy your Holidays! Love Bec x

I do love Christmas time and all that it entails including Christmas Carols and being a singer you do tend to sing alot of them.  Christmas Eve will be the last carols I sing at and that will be 6 for this year but it is always fun and wouldn't feel like Christmas without it! Do you have a favourite Christmas album? I am gathering that many would say Mariah Carey's??  Our family never really got into that album but the album that has become a tradition in our house, to play when putting up the Christmas tree and on Christmas morning while opening presents is Phil Driscoll's 1993 "Heaven & Nature Swing" Christmas Album. Such a brilliant album of Christmas classics done in swing/jazz style and Phil both sings and plays trumpet on it! Another fave is Josh Groban's "Noel" and this year Michael Buble's "Christmas".  Music is such a crucial part of this season and spreads the message of the Miracle of Jesus' birth and the gift ...

Had a fabulous weekend just gone. My sisters and I flew over to Melbourne to sing at the Our Christmas Gift Concert at Melbourne Convention Centre.  Saturday we started with a rehearsal at 9:30am and ended the day at the concert that started at 7pm.  It was such a fabulous, beautiful concert. The other guest artists were Silvie Paladino (we love her!) Kane Alexander and Daniel Beasy.  We had a fab time and it was to 4500 people so that made it more fun! We then headed back to Adelaide on Sunday morning and then sang at Olivia's (one of my sisters) work Christmas Party and then headed back to Mount Barker to sing at the Community Carols.  This was fun although the sound guy was not very capable but we got through that and had a great show including our brother joining us for a version of Jingle Bells which went over so well! So it was a fabulous singing weekend, only a couple of gigs now before Christmas break!! Bec x

My sisters and I are really looking forward to this weekend, it promises to be a big and busy one but fun also! We leave tomorrow to go to Melbourne for the Salvation Army "Our Christmas Gift" Concert at the Convention Centre on Saturday Night. Along with Silvie Paladino, Kane Alexander and others the concert will be a fabulous night and I believe the tickets are sold out so even better! We fly back Sunday to sing at a work Christmas Party and then to finish the weekend off we are performing at the Mount Barker Christmas Carols alongside Peter Coombe and Brian Gilbertson.  Starting at 7:30pm, at Keith Stevenson Park it will be a fun night and we look forward to sharing with everyone.  There may even be a guest appearance by Alex Raymond, the Raymond brother with his sisters.  Well I need to get back to things, have a fabulous weekend! Bec x

This Saturday night at 7:30pm, the group I'm in Soul Factor Gospel Choir  will be performing their Christmas Concert at the Capri Theatre, Goodwood.  It is going to be a fabulous night with Special Quest Michael Harding About Michael Harding: Michael Harding is one of Australia’s best known and most respected musicians, as a sought-after concert accompanist. Michael has shared the stage with the cream of local and international stars, including: Shirley Bassey, Michael Crawford, Olivia Newton-John, Joan Rivers, Guy Sebastian, James Morrison, Thelma Houston, Judith Durham, The Seekers, The Three Tenors, Denis Walter, Silvie Paladino and has been a regular television performer. Michael’s intimate knowledge of all styles of music cements his position as one of Australia’s most in-demand accompanists and solo performers. We are thrilled to have Michael as our guest for this evening and KNOW you are in for a treat! Also performing that night is Andrew Crispe , a very ta...

Well the past weekend has been crazy! My sister is getting married and so we had her Kitchen Tea and her Hen's Night on Saturday and it was a great time but wow a long day! We had a Garden Party for her Kitchen Tea and a dinner for the Hen's up at Mum & Dad's new farm. It was pretty and in the end lovely weather. I made little Paper Mache birds using music as name place cards, they were cute! On Sunday my sisters, The Raymond Sisters , and I had to sing at a Fundraising Concert, we did 5 songs including one with our Mum and were joined by other acts to raise money for Tim & Di Size to go to Salvation Army Training College next year. Another group I sing for is Ding Productions , one of the shows I am involved in is Ice Queens, ding's beautiful trio 'the ice queens' present fantastic harmonies and ethereal melodies in spectacular costumes. Yesterday we performed at the Adelaide Oval.  Set outside in one of the stands we performed 5 c...

You know those awkward moments when there is no conversation, when there's nothing to say or when everything is too quiet?? I have a habit of breaking out into song when this happens and often it is an unconcious thing, so I do it without thinking but I always sing the same song, Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer".  I don't know why this is but it just seems the right thing to sing especially starting with "oh we're halfway there..." anyway it fills the lull of conversation or noise. Do you have a filler song??