This is a performance from the only formal venue concert of the Bromley Youth Concert Band trip to Sicily, to an invited audience at Villa Anna near Ispica, Sicily. You can spot Eliza in the back row, her long hair draped over the back of her chair.
Villa Anna is in the middle of the Sicilian countryside and was always going to be a long drive. It would have been easier if a) I had not taken the country route and become lost in Ragusa. b) Sicily had better road signage c) my companion had not distracted me with an obscene tale about oyster consumption. The concert night turned into a 12 hour round trip with little or no food or drink. But it improved my MarioCart skills no end.
What a beautiful setting for such wonderful music, performed by such a talented group of young people. It must rank as a “once in a lifetime” experience. Was there a soirée afterwards? I have to say, I am dying with curiosity, you can’t tease us with the line “an obscene tale about oyster consumption” then leave us hanging, tell us the tale 🙂
Oyster story is too rude for delicate eyes.
This was ordinary, if formal, concert. They just went back to their hotel afterwards. But they go on tour annually and do high level concerts the time. Not always in Sicily though.