Beverley Concert

One of the new pictures printed in the Beverley program!

Thanks to Jimmy Riddle for posting it!

Cassius (didn't know he wears glasses! Nice!), Mini James, Matthew J. (cool sunglasses),

Kavana, Henry, Matthew R-A, Luke, Carlos & Sammy (more cool sunglasses).  :D

10:00 p.m. Per Jimmy Riddle, the turnout for the concert was fantastic, and the church was nearly full. The singing was exceptional, and it was one of the best concerts he's ever attended! The sound technicians did a great job; he could hear everyone's diction so clearly. 

Deep Peace was his favorite "in terms of the whole choir nailing it. Stefan's solo was exceptional and the harmonies were interwoven as one. It was pretty much a flawless execution." He said Carlos sang his Ave Verum solo with great confidence and clarity. Stefan and Jakob were good together on How Shall I Sing That Majesty. 

He noticed, as we had in Atlanta, that even though Josh sings his part in Time with Ralph and Alex, you can "still hear him clearly in his trademark voice. It's lower no doubt, but it's still uniquely him. Congrats to him for still being able to sing solo in a treble dominated setup." That makes me very happy to hear!  :)


9:30 p.m. Per Yorkie, it was a good concert with a good crowd of around 300+. No little newbies were at this concert, and Matthew Jansen had to leave the stage after the first song with some sort of eye problem that Mrs. Geraghty helped him with. Ralph was still struggling with a cough, but got through all his solos OK.

Stefan and Ralph did Mysterium from the front instead of Stefan walking down the center aisle. For Eternal Light, Stefan and Ralph sang the first 2 verses together but so closely that it sounded like one voice. Then Stefan sang the last verse by himself.

And again NO PHOTOS after the concert. The boys are staying in Beverley tonight.


7:00 a.m. Now it's on to the last UK Autumn concert! Beverley is a 3-hour train ride away from London, but Libera will probably take a bus or coach there. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Beverley Minster.

Beverley Minster

London Concert

Mr. Prizeman bringing some of the boys to the concert.

Photo by Fan de LoK.

10:00 p.m. Per Fan de LoK, before the concert there was a traffic jam near the cathedral, so Tom Cully, Steven Geraghty, Callum Payne and Andy Winter walked the rest of the way to the church. They later left and returned a few minutes later supervising a group of  young Libera boys in their blue uniforms and carrying their white robes. Some fans took pictures and videos of their arrival. Later some of the older boys arrived, apparently coming from school, because they still had their school uniforms on.

Their dressing room was near the cathedral entrance, and the fans could see some of the younger ones inside playing and spinning around in their white robes.

The concert programs cost 1BPS and were similar to those at Bristol and Chester but with a few extra, newer pictures!  :)  The first 9 rows were for premium seating, and those tickets were handled by Mr. Fontannaz, Daniel's father! The church filled quickly 35 rows back, so some had to sit over on the sides behind the pillars.

Robert Prizeman arrived and received lengthy applause from the audience. Stefan started the concert by coming from the side of the stage rather than walking up the center aisle. The stage was backlit by intense, blue lights which gave a beautiful and mysterious halo effect. Stefan sang the first 4 lines of Libera then hit the high note as he had in the Japan concert which we saw in the Japan Tour video. Then the others came in from the side to the stage.

5:15 p.m. Per Fan de LoK, the concert was very successful. Ralph, Stefan and Daniel had beautiful solos! The lighting on the white stone walls of the cathedral was gorgeous. There were many Libera family members present with a total attendance of 600-700. The song order was similar to the Bristol and Chester concerts, except the encore this time was Exultate. He says there were 31 boys singing. There were NO PICTURES at the end! Very sad.  :(  He said perhaps it was due to the late hour. They started 15-20 minutes late (probably to give time for those stuck in traffic) and had an extra-long intermission.

He also said that Matthew Madine and Jude Collins are very easy to recognize, because they look so much like their older brothers.  :)

4:30 p.m. Per Dani, the concert was wonderful. "Eternal Light was just amazing tonight. Ralph and Stefan were fantastic again, and Ralph is really nailing the high notes."

The church was very full with about 700 people there. There were 31 boys in total - 23 old and 8 new.  No James T. again, however.

They had a new encore - Exultate!

New boys are: Ciaran Bradberry-Hickey (haven't heard of him before), Jude Collins, Thomas Delgado-Little, Dylan Duffy, Ben Fairman, Luis Fernandes, Barney Lindsell and Matthew Madine! Woo-hoo!  :)


8:00 a.m. Yorkie and Dani are lined up for the best seats already! It is 2:00 p.m. there in London.

7:00 a.m. The concert is tonight at St. George's Cathedral! It starts at 7:30 p.m. London time!

St. George's Cathedral, London

Eternal Light on TV!

Libera posted on their blog this morning:


We will be performing our new song Eternal Light on BBC-1 this coming Sunday (21st November) on Songs of Praise at around 5pm.


So that SOP sneak peek WAS of Eternal Light! It's such a beautiful song! It looks like they filmed it in a studio rather than in an actual church. So will part of the video also include the outside filming they did at Primrose Hill and Chiswick House Gardens seen here.  Can't wait to see it! You know SOMEONE in the UK will post it on YouTube for the rest of us to enjoy!  :)

Filming inside a studio? for Eternal Light video.

Stefan singing the solo for one of the prettiest songs ever!

Sere, Luke, newbie Barney or Dylan, Daniel, Stefan, Matthew J.,

newbie Barney or Dylan and Freddie.

Did you notice those crooked candles in the back left?  :)

Looks like Tiarnan's curly hair, Ralph, Jonathan, Jakob? and Alex?

Another Bristol Concert Video

While we anxiously await the Libera London concert, let's calm down with a lovely new video. This video was done by Pax Tecum and Bullehynka from the French forum. The song is Ave Virgo with the solo sung by Tom Cully. I like this video becauses it slowly scans just one panorama picture of Libera from left to right. It is one of the most relaxing videos I've ever seen.

Bristol Slideshow

This is a really nice slideshow of Bristol concert pictures done by Bullehynka from the French forum. 

 

UK Concert Tickets Still Available

Libera posted on their blog this morning that UK concert tickets for London and Beverley are still available. Better yet, they posted 2 more pictures!  :D

Beautiful picture from Bristol!!! Super cool!

Picture taken during the Chester concert!

The quality isn't as good as the others, so must've been someone's

personal camera. You can see the audience members!  :)

Libera License Plate Holder!

Awesome!!!!!!  This may put us over the top in Libera fandom! We are now officially crazy fans! We bought 2 of these Libera license plate holders, one for the van I drive and one for the car my mom drives. Amazingly enough, we got them on Amazon.com! And they look WAY better than the picture on Amazon. Aren't they awesome?!!!  :D  I'll try to post a picture of them later actually ON the cars. I wonder if people will think I love Liberia the country. But every bit of advertising helps, right?  :)