A ‘candle-lit’ concert

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I’ve often seen concerts by candle light advertised, generally featuring well-known classical music or historical instruments. But somehow I never managed to get around to going to one. Then I found myself working at the venue for an evening when one of these concerts was on. In fact the concert was quite short, just an hour long, and it was obviously part of a tour, because the concert was performed twice in the one evening, and then everything was packed up and taken away to go somewhere else. So I got to see/listen to it all twice and get paid for the privilege! It was really enjoyable. What made me laugh though was that they didn’t use real candles, it would be far too risky in a historical building and far too much of a fire hazard. So instead they had hundreds of those LED pretend candles, the sort that are moulded to look as though the wax is melting and they have a little wobbly bit of silvery stuff to imitate a flickering flame. In fact the whole thing was quite effective, and at the end people were queueing up to take selfies with the candles as the backdrop. But once they had all left we spent about 20 minutes crawling about the floor turning off the little switch in each ‘candle’ and then packing them all up in boxes Have you ever been to an event like this? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2024.