Dannevirke hosts Kiwi Cracker Christmas concert for large audience

The combined choirs joined together to present the rollicking Sister Act Medley to open the show.

Four choirs and four months of rehearsing came together in a very memorable night of popular music at Dannevirke’s St John’s Anglican Church.

Choir numbers totalling nearly 60 singers were more than matched by the audience, who enjoyed a lovely range of songs drawn from the shows like Les Miserables, Sister Act and The Lion King, other popular numbers like The Time Warp, and Hallelujah, mixed with traditional Christmas classics like Jingle Bells and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Dannevirke’s Viking Choir sang the spine-tingling Hallelujah.

Woodville’s Stand Up and Sing presented the beautiful A Whole New World from Aladdin.

Each choir had its own numbers with Dannevirke’s Viking Choir combining with Woodville’s Stand Up And Sing for the medleys and the four choirs singing the haunting, well-known Pepeha at the end of the first half.

The Harmony Sisters presented the thought-provoking Nothing Else Matters.

Totara College Singers and Mangatainoka School Choirs sang an excerpt from The Lion King.

Three musical directors led their choirs – Vicky Tomlinson, Lyn Falconer, and Ruth Peters (sometimes in disguise) – with a combination of wit and enthusiasm, which was very ably supported by the talented pianist Helen Johnson.

The audience nearly filled the Dannevirke St John Anglican Church.

The entire audience joined the choirs to wrap up the evening with well-known carols sending everyone home with a great taste of Christmas.

If you missed the show, a repeat of it will be presented in the Woodville Holy Trinity Anglican Church on December 7 at 7pm. Adults $10, children free.