New Zealand Summer Holiday Time

Dear Singers,

The World Choral Tour is over and we’ve returned to settle in New Zealand. Christmas and New Year celebrations are added to summer holiday activities here so it has been a rather busy time re-establishing ourselves and beginning to play our part again in the New Zealand scene. Just at the moment schools are closed and people are away on holiday. I’ve been swimming in the surf again and it is lovely.

We saw about twenty choirs on the tour, in Australia, Europe and the US. Almost all responded very positively and many of them expressed an intention to come to our festival sooner or, probably, later. It takes a long while considering such a big venture, and longer again to organise a group of 30-40 singers to travel to New Zealand. So we don’t expect the earth to move overnight.

But it was very gratifying that people were so positive. And you can be sure that others around the world are beginning to make closer or further plans to come to New Zealand. We are planning to make it a wonderful time for you when you come.

Owen