Saturday I had my first choir concert here in Austria. We performed in Klein Pöchlarn, which is right across the Danube from where we live (Gross Pöchlarn). The day started with lunch at one of the choir members' house. We had a huge feast of meat and potatoes capped off with plenty of desserts and some schnapps to settle the stomach. We reheared afterwards and made the final preperations. The concert was held in a large room with a stage in the city hall. Over a hundred people showed up to see "the best choir in Lower Austria." Angela came with our "Austrian parents" Elsa and Josef. The concert was a blast! We performed everything from Schubert to the Beatles with some Austrian folk songs mixed in. Afterwards, we gathered and enjoyed some young Austrian wines. Unlike France where old wines are considered the best, here enjoying the young wines is most common. We brushed up on our local dialect for the next couple hours as we conversed with the locals and other choir members. Next up on the schedule is our concert in Vienna city hall on the 19th. We then start recording our new CD in January.
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