Inverleigh hosting community Christmas carols

THE Inverleigh Progress Association is inviting everyone to bring along their best singing voice and attend the Community Christmas Carols event next Saturday evening, 13 December.

The program gets started at 6pm with St Paul’s Anglican Church in High Street the venue for the two-hour-long festive occasion that will be free for all to attend and will feature musicians from the Geelong Concert Band.

“We’ve invited a subset of the Geelong Concert Band along, and the church will be able to fit at least 10 musicians,” event organiser and Inverleigh Progress Association vice-president Deb Morrison said.

“We’ll have the traditional well-known and well-loved carols like We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Jingle Bells, Rudolf, Silent Night, and Away in a Manger.

“There used to be a very well-run carols event in Inverleigh for many years but it went into hiatus, so if it’s successful it’s certainly something that we can run again.

“I think it’s just going to be a joyful community event.”

Inverleigh Progress Association president Hilary Hamilton said next Saturday’s carols will mark a return of the annual seasonal event for the town after an absence of several years, and it is hoped they will become an annual fixture beyond this year.

“For the past two years we’ve had community barbecues, and they’ve been well supported but this year we decided we’d do something a bit different,” she said.

“It’s just carols, not a church service.

“It’s a community evening that people can come and join in and we plan to have the carols in printed sheet form for people and also a light supper included afterwards.

“It’s for young and old and the main thing is just to bring along some Christmas spirit and enjoy the evening.”