Rotkreuzplatz Christmas Market

Tonight my chorus performed for an hour at the Chrismtas market in Rotkreuzplatz. As there was no stage, we simply stood on the pavement in front of the Maibaum (the maypole, which you can see painted Bavarian blue and white behind us in the picture above). We had a good time and the small crowd that gathered seemed entertained. Marty arrived about halfway through the performance and managed to take a couple of pictures. We'll be there next Wednesday, too, if anyone wants to come and see us!

There are markets all over town right now, and it's fun to go from one to the other and see the different things they have to sell. Down at Marienplatz (where most of my pictures from last year were taken) it's mostly traditional tree ornaments and nativity figures. At the one near our apartment, there's a lot of expensive, artsy stuff. Out at Tollwood it's more of a world market, with things from all over. But I think, from just the short glimpse of it I had tonight, the one in Rotkreuzplatz has more stuff I liked that any of the others I've seen. Artistic, but not too artsy. I'll have to go back during the day sometime when it's not so busy, and I'm not singing.

My chorus is singing the following songs this Christmas: Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Let It Snow, White Christmas, The Secret of Christmas, Christmas Chopsticks (a version of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"), Jingle Bells (a really nice arrangement), Carol of the Bells, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Tonight we also did a non-Christmas set that included San Francisco Bay Blues, Carolina in the Morning, Hello Mary Lou, I Don't Know Why, and Darkness on the Delta.

We have three more performances scheduled before Christmas, and I'm looking forward to them. Here's one more picture from tonight, after we finished singing. Me (on the left) with my friend Sonja (who I'm sure will be horrified that I posted this; sorry, Sonja). Note our matching lipstick -- the official lipstick color of our chorus!