The Henley Living Advent Calender - Final evening 24th December 2013

We have lived in Henley for just over a week now, and have unfortunately not been able to visit the other 23 live music and speech events which form the Living Advent Calendar.

This evening's performance was outside St Mary The Virgin Church.  The choir sang some enchanting Christmas Carols.

The vicar read some poems in between the carols.

They were collecting money for charity, the purpose of the events which are quite unique outside of Sweden. The mayor gave a speech at the end thanking all of the organisers, local papers and businesses for supporting the event.  This is the first time I have seen the local Mayor and was suitably impressed by his oratory style.

Here are some pictures of the event.

I managed to take a few seconds of the choir singing - angelic and this made the evening enjoyable for over 100 spectators, who were asked to dig deep into their pockets, the event this year was £340 short of last years so far.