Anyone involved in the types of music that I am, is already heavily ensconced in the busiest time of the year, Christmas.
I often think of the Christmas music season to be akin to an iceberg.
There is so much Christmas activity going on that most do not know about, and it’s been happening since early September or in some cases, even earlier.
Yes, some of us even beat Walmart and Costco out of the Christmas gate!
I consider my seasonal calendar to be much different than that of the average person.
Of course, the year is traditionally divided into spring, summer, fall and winter, but I consider my four seasons to be Christmas music season, snowmobile season (my favourite), spring concert season and planning for Christmas and spring concert seasons, which falls in the average person’s summer.
For the Wallaceburg Concert Band, our traditional “Christmas music” season is well underway but considerably different this year than any other year to date.
I’ve been questioning my sanity since we re-convened in September as I’ve added a mid-October concert that we’ve never offered before.
As I write this column, we are a mere three days away from presenting our “Autumn Adventure” concert at St. Paul’s Congregational Church in Chatham, and I’m pulling my hair as there are still so many details to look after.
We’ve been simultaneously working on Christmas music and the music for Saturday’s concert, and I believe our musical preparations for this concert to be solid and look forward to presenting it.
Unfortunately, we had to present this concert outside of Wallaceburg for a few different reasons, not the least of which was that we could........