Wow! What an amazing day we were having already but the most important bit of the day was still to come! As we sat in our seats, we saw the arena filling up with parents, family and friends. We managed to see some our parents from afar but would have needed binoculars to see them properly!
We were all ready for the concert to begin and as the lights went down it was incredible to see everybody’s tiny torches lighting up the darkness. The concert started and it was very loud! We sang a number of songs together as the Young Voices Choir with over 8,400 other children! We even got to perform with professional musicians including Tabby Callaghan from the X Factor and one of the Britain’s Got Talent finalists who had taken part in Young Voices 10 years ago, how inspirational! As well as singing, we were treated to performances from the Beatbox Collective and Urban Strides. They were brilliant! We then got to take part in some dancing with Urban Strides and even a dance off with our parents! We enjoyed singing all of the songs but our choir favourites were Birdhouse in Your Soul, Sing and the Pop Medley. We were particularly impressed by our singing in Welsh……!!
After locating our coach in a crazily busy Manchester, we headed home. We were all very tired but some of us were still singing! Others spent a bit more time relaxing, including the whole of the back seat of the coach who snoozed for the majority of the journey home.
What an amazing day we had, it’s an experience you can’t quite describe without being there but it was worth all the hard work we had put in before the big day itself.
Thank you to all our parents and friends that came to see us in Manchester, we hope you had an amazing experience too!
