Evoking the festive spitit with caroling

Christmas is around the corner and the festive spirit is renting the air. Singing carols before the Yule Tide is an age old tradition and many revellers have started it. Lutheran Church and Festival Choristers performed traditional and contemporary choirs and carols at Lutheran Church, Lakdikapul to spread the Christmas cheer.

A total of 35 members rendered 14 Choirs like “Joy to the world”, “Where shall we find messiah”, “Send the light”, “Gloria in Excelsis Deo”, “O Holy Night”, “Silver Bells”, “Silent night, holy night”, “Angels we have heard on high”, “It came upon the midnight” among others.

Festival Choristers, a group of 50 singers mesmerised the audience in an hour-long programme of carols at Ravindra Bharathi. The group was started in 2006 and they have been performing every year since then. This year the theme of the programme was ‘Come and Rejoice’.

The group recited carols like “Praises of Israel”, “Magnificent”, “Here on a silent night”, “Mass of the children”, “How should a king come”, “All bells in paradise”, “A thousand candles light the earth”, “Arise, shine!” “Te Deum laudamus,” and more.

“For this carol recital, we are practising since two months. We used instruments like Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, Bass Guitar and Drums. We are starting our celebrations with this programme,” Dr Supriya Joseph, director of the programme, said.