Beautiful day

gmjambear and I took a jaunt into downtown Seattle for the day. We parked out at Eastgate and took the express bus into town so we wouldn't have to worry about parking.

First stop was the Pike Place Market, where we picked up a couple of street-festival T-shirts, swung by Kell's Pub for a bit of lunch and some Irish hard cider, and stopped in to see badrobot68 at his shop.

Next we browsed Borders and I picked up a book for Gary, Bird By Bird, that was highly recommended in sunsmogseahorse's journal for anyone who would like to make a living from writing.

After that we caught the Capitol Hill bus to Broadway and Pine, visited the ATM and had dinner at Taco del Mar, then went over to the Broadway Performance Hall (formerly part of Broadway High School) at Seattle Central Community College to see Diverse Harmony, the gay-straight alliance youth choir. More on that next post.

Tonight's Concert

[I'm breaking this into short posts to improve the odds that they will actually post. LiveJournal is having some technical difficulties.]

Diverse Harmony has fallen on some rough times: their long-time artistic director left to pursue other opportunities, so they had to rely on an interim director/accompanist and a technical director up in the light booth. They have fewer boys now than they did so their arrangements have had to be re-balanced, but all in all they still sound good and are very enthusiastic.

From a rousing rendition of "Sisters" from White Christmas by a gay brother and his straight sister (she got to sing the line, "When a certain gentleman arrived from Rome/He wore the dress and I stayed home") to an enthusiastic rendition of "Purpose" from Avenue Q by a cute young man already filling into a fireplug build, who I thought resembled a very young Johnny Mac (a fellow chorine back in Rochester whom redcub will probably remember), the kids were great.

Special guest star Alexandra Billings was a trip, punctuating rousing renditions of standards like "Being Alive" and "Let the River Run" with a few comic turns.

They closed the concert together with "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Sideshow, a song we'd done in Rochester some time ago.