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Day 11

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One of the highlights of the Perth trip was today’s Commonwealth Youth Forum in Fremantle. This morning, a small contingent of our young musicians along with all of our groups, Maltese Harpist Cecilia De Maria and ROSL cello soloist Yelian He went across to Fremantle a really delightful seaside town at the mouth of the Swan River which we visited on Day 3

Sri Mahgli, our Singaporean group had taught the group a folk song which the rest of the musicians arranged to fit the instrumentation of Harp, Violin, Cello, Flute, Guitar, Sri Mahgli and Sharda Pattasar & Band. The piece was arranged specially for the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Youth Forum 2011. The closing ceremony was attended by the Commonwealth deputy secretary, MP for western Australia, many delegates and nearly 100 delegates.

It was a very exciting and colourful event and was fun to perform at.

The members of the The Commonwealth Resounds! who weren’t involved with the Youth Forum went on a bit of a road trip! More details to be announced by Sarah Noon soon…

This evening saw our Singaporean group, Sri Mahligai give a farewell performance at our City Stay apartments to the Singaporeans of Perth. They gave us the opportunity to sample Singaporean food and enjoy their company before they fly back home tomorrow.

Its been lovely to get to work with Sri Mahligai over the last week and hear their music.

Day 10

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Having been on Perth for 10 days and carrying out nearly 20 events so far it is amazing that the whole group has not yet been split up. Today however was a time for us to show off our logistical expertise! With 4 events not only back to back or overlapping but at the same time!

Early in the morning the Royal Over-Seas League soloists had a chance to rehearse for a new composition by one of the young musicians. There was also time for some of our young musicians to rehearse items and prepare for the next few days ahead!

After lunch, some of the young musicians departed to work with Perth modern school, just up the road from our apartments. The rest of the group left for Fremantle to rehearse for the closing ceremony of the commonwealth youth forum. Our Trinidad group taught the group a piece and 14 musicians will be performing it together during the closing ceremony of the CYF tomorrow afternoon.

At around 1 this morning (Perth time!) Alison Cox was woken by an official asking if the Trinidad group could play for the prime minister at a function tonight! So, the band went off this evening with myself (as technician) and met the Prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who was an amazing person. It was a real honour to meet the prime minister she had such presence and spoke brilliantly.

The ROSL Soloists were also in action tonight with some of our young musicians at the ROSL gala dinner, the young musicians were invited to the Royal Over-Seas League CHoGM Dinner. There were also some lucky ones who are able to take evening off!!!!

Pictures of today will follow soon…

Tomorrow looks like it