Music Live at Lunch

Tuesday
This morning I was out at knitting ministry. I hadn’t been for several months - April’s was canceled, and I was gone in March, and possibly February as well! So I had several items to take in to be blessed and distributed, two prayer shawls and a scarf -:the latter will be held until late summer when they will be collected by a group called Crayons to Computers. We were a small group today, just 6 of us. I took the baby blanket I have in progress to work on while I was there, and unfortunately after I’d completed a row, I discovered I’d made a mistake in the pattern, about an inch back! So I didn’t do any more, as I wanted to be home and alone when I was trying to put that right! We blessed the items brought in by everyone, then I left early, as R and I were driving downtown for Music Live at Lunch at Christ Church cathedral. It had also been several weeks since we had been there. Today was advertised as Hammer dulcimer music, but in fact the musician also played banjo and concertina, the latter pieces, accompanied by his son on the Bodhran - see lower left and centre right of my collage - a frame drum, used in Irish music. Animal skin or synthetic material is tacked to one side of the frame, while the other side is open-ended for one hand to be placed against the inside of the drum head to control the pitch and timbre. When they had finished playing, they invited those who were interested to go up and have a closer look. The father does a lot of playing in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities, especially the hammer dulcimer which has a very soothing sound.
Much of the rest of the afternoon I spent undoing my knitting, and then this evening I was able to make some constructive progress!