Seahouses Middle School children sing with Dana at the Seahouses Methodist Chapel

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Friday, 07 May 2010 Written by Pat Adamson

Hands up those of you who remember Dana winning the Eurovision Song Contest! (Now you’re showing your age!) Do you realise it was FORTY years ago? Doesn’t seem like it.

Dana appeared at the Methodist Chapel in Seahouses to a packed house on Friday 7th May, supported by her brother, Jerry Brown and a young drummer.

Dana had asked if she could have some children from Seahouses to help her with some of her songs and so we chose our best singers from each year group to join the first school and the Girl’s Brigade. Our pupils were asked to sing a song by ourselves and chose "You are not alone" which they sang beautifully and got a good response from the audience. They also joined in with Dana when she sang "Nothing in my pocket", "Good Morning Jesus" and her encore, "All kinds of everything".

Dana was an extremely good entertainer, made everyone feel at home and wandered amongst the audience, pausing to speak to people and ask them about themselves. She even got Pamela’s dad up to help her with her version of "Ghost riders in the sky". All the children managed to sing into the microphone at least once during the evening and the chapel was packed with lots of proud parents and friends. It was an excellent experience for our pupils and one they will remember for a long time to come. CDs were on sale at the end of the performance and many people asked to buy "the one with the children on" (pity there wasn’t one!)

Well done to everyone involved.