At the current time of witing, I'm freshly back from a wonderful week in Iona, at the invitation of the Wild Goose Resource group. It was 'music and worship week' and an inspiration all round - from the rest of the programme team, but also from the guests who brought their own inspiring stories with them.
My remit was definitely a percussive one this week, doing daily drumming workshops, and contributing various 'noises' to the worship. I even had my performance debut on the triangle... alongside the thoughtful and gorgeously voiced Tony Alonso - who bravely invited me to play on a couple of numbers in his concert.
Other highlights included a service involving a huge wall of boxes being built across the Abbey (no prizes for guessing what the subject was!) - seeing Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham in concert at the village hall - the demise of the Abbey's sound system and accompanying compensations - the scriptures being danced, sung and drummed in, in the final service - and missing the ferry on the way home, in excellent company.
Next weekend a number of us will be off to do more music and worship stuff at Greenbelt festival... more about that later...
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