Sunday 5 June 2022
by Wulf
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Today saw the last two Jubilee weekend events for Thorpe Acre, both hosted by Thorpe Acre church, and both of which I was involved in. The first was our regular all-age service, which sidestepped our current theme (“sensing God”) to … Continue reading
Saturday 12 March 2022
by Wulf
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I’ve got two back to back performances tonight in the church hall. We’ve got a visiting bishop for the weekend and we’re going to offer him some figurative ‘hot potato’ questions to juggle but first we’re providing a hot potato … Continue reading
Wednesday 9 June 2021
by Wulf
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This afternoon, I took my double bass out for the first time since… well, since before moving up to Loughborough at the end of 2019. We happen to have a talented jazz pianist in the congregation and so we spent … Continue reading
Thursday 23 January 2020
by Wulf
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Solo bass for me at Loughborough Acoustic Club tonight, and I performed the following songs: Fly Me to the Moon Mack the Knife Mona On the Sunny Side of the Street Three of those are jazz songs, with all the … Continue reading
Sunday 20 October 2019
by Wulf
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I’m having one of my musically active days – on bass at church in the morning, jamming rock music with a colleague of Jane’s and a couple of his friends in the afternoon and, still to come, heading out to … Continue reading
Sunday 29 September 2019
by Wulf
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Some of you will recognise that as the title of the original French lyric for the tune widely know in the anglophone world as Autumn Leaves. For the background – including the original French lyrics and a literal translation as … Continue reading
Saturday 29 June 2019
by Wulf
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I probably should have posted about this evening’s Music for a Summer Evening event at St Nicholas in Old Marston before it happened. As with the previous event in June 2017, I was playing bass with a small jazz group … Continue reading