NEW YEAR'S EVE - Goodbye to 2024 and hello 2025
Hi Happy New Year to all. Dear friends invited us to the Queensland Pops Orchestra New Year's Eve concert in Brisbane. After some detours due to flooded roads and a train ride into the Brisbane CBD we made it to QPAC. Below is a link to the QPAC website showing all the performers for this year's NYE concert - also celebrating 40 years for the Queensland Pops Orchestra. As you will note, there was a very wide variety of music styles and amazing talents, all presented in a bright and celebratory tone - didjeridoo, bagpipes, Scottish dancers, Celtic music, harmonising singers, pop music to some of the great classical pieces. https://youtu.be/Mni1UVa2TNY We went to the early 5:00pm performance. As we emerged from the concert hall the early round of fire works lit up the sky. Early on new year's eve there was much more of a family feel to proceedings. The serious revellers had not arrived yet. After another train and car ride and we were back home in Yarraman just in time t...