My initial thought for the Black History Month performance was to do 'Hurricane' by Bob Dylan. I chose this song because it focuses on the topic of a man being wrongly accused of murder just because he was black.
I decided that I didn't want to perform this and joined Jess and Holly to sing 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' by Marvin Gaye. We chose this song because we felt that people will always be there no matter what, in times of discrimination. We also chose this song because Marvin Gaye was a very talented and well known black performer.
We wanted to keep the instrumentation and staging simple so that it did not detract from the lyrics and meaning of the song. We chose to have the three of us standing centre stage in a line. The lighting was general cover on the stage, again not to draw any focus.
Overall I thought that the performance went really well. I felt that the arrangement of the song suited the tree of us very well and the way we decided to split the parts. As the least confident singer I had less solo singing which I was happy with and Jess and Holly had solos which were very good!
If we were to do it again and improve on it, I think we would have sung more of the song into the part where it changes key. The reason we decided not to was that none of us felt confident enough with the song to sing it, but if we had more time to rehearse I'm sure we would have done.
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