Chinley Independent Chapel

It was a great honour to be invited by Foday, the Minister of Chinley Independant Chapel to lead the community hymn singing during a day of celebrations at the Chapel.  The occasion was to mark the
350th anniversary of Isaac Watts, founder member of the Congregations Church movement.

As well as half a dozen hymns, we also played a couple of marches and Highland Cathedral all of which went down very well with the congregation, who sang three verses of everything with great enthusiasm.

The Band were so wrapped up in the occasion that no-one remembered to take any photographs.  Ooops!
So you'll have to use your imagination to picture the pews filled with bandsmen . . . . . . . .

  . . . . . . . .players in the three rows at the back looking this way, and Sheila conducting from the far end of the pew end on to the camera.

And in the great bass band tradition, "Bandsmen's Teas" were part of the deal and we were treated to an excellent lunch afterwards in the Sunday Schoolroom opposite the Chapel.

Thank you, Foday and your congregation, for inviting WB Band to share in your celebrations in your amazing Chapel and for your warm hospitality.  Hope we will have the opportunity to play here again before too long.