day eight.five

yet another incredible evening here in Lichfield despite the insessant rain. Firstly we had a comfortably packed St Michael's church for the Elias Quartet (great to see them all again since their first performance here a year ago - two have left Lichfield already, while the other two are staying for tomorr'w Ensemble 360 performance).
Then we had the world premiere of the Festival commission Shiraz - I managed to see the first 40 mins, and I thought Sabri had done such an excellent job on bringing the film to life. We also had several venues and a few film festivals in, so maybe we'll be able to resurrect the touring plans after all (we've also had interest from Istanbul and Dubai).
and from my office, I can hear the second half starting up of Acoustic Triangle and the Sacconi Strings who are performing to another larger audience than I had expected - we've turned the cathedral so they ar performing in the round, and it sounds spectacular.
And the really nice thing is that everyone has been going to everyone else's gigs. Badke and Sacconi players were at Elias. Elias are at Acoustic Triangle. and the audiences have been running from event to event as well. A good night...