Passchendaele concert, Belgium - October 4, 07

[grant]

Hi Stephany

Loved the video! Some very unusual camera work - particularly where the cameraman concentrated on Hayley's outstretched hand - quite beautiful.

I wonder if the associated interview is the one she did in bare feet after loosing her boots in the mud?

Love
Grant
xxx

[graemek]

Thanks so much Stephany & Joyce.

It gives me such a thrill when Hayley has such well deserved recognition.

Of course she sings the stars out of their places in the Heavens.

How gorgeous is that.

Might I say too that she's able to bring cheer over and above the sadness of Passchendaele.
Graeme
PS Grant...I loved the perfectly smooth & harmonious motion of the hand too.

[Stephany]

grant said:

I wonder if the associated interview is the one she did in bare feet after loosing her boots in the mud?

Hi Grant - it most certainly is. Look at this picture, it seems that she is standing on the grass.

Lots of love,
Stephany

[chrisw]

stephany said:

Hey Chris & Joyce, you're in the pictures!
Many thanks for posting Some of the pics are really nice.
On the one below, I see that she had the sheet music for 'Sonny'. Just in case?

Stephany

Hey Steph,

I believe those photos were taken by the guy directly opposite me, as his camera was (annoyingly) flashing away all evening long. He was a local reporter..

~Chris

[chrisw]

stephany said:

grant said:

I wonder if the associated interview is the one she did in bare feet after loosing her boots in the mud?

Hi Grant - it most certainly is. Look at this picture, it seems that she is standing on the grass.

Lots of love,
Stephany

Uhm, before actually. Hayley was chatting with various people after the concert, and she had to go onto the grass for the interview. She managed to make it there without any problems, but it was after the interview when she walked off of the grass on the opposite side where she discovered the mud..

~Chris

[grant]

graemek said:

PS Grant...I loved the perfectly smooth & harmonious motion of the hand too.

Hi Graeme

There have been several comments across various threads about Hayley's use of her hands and arms whilst she is singing. I think Andrew went into quite some detail about how she holds her mike in one of his posts some while ago.

But until those few seconds of video which concentrated solely on her hand movement, I don't think we've ever seen it like this and out of context before. The cameraman must have noticed something special about it to make it a feature.

Well done that man (or woman!)

Best wishes
Grant

[thomas]

Hi Joyce!

Thank you for the article. I tried to read the Flemish one first and couldn't understand everything, but enough to realise that the person who wrote it was very impressed by Hayley. Thank you for the complete translation.

I also like this picture in the article. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif


Thomas

[dutchjoyce]

Hi Thomas, this was so funny to discover!!!
And i found the photographer of this picture!!!
He is in Reply#118, in the second photo, where Hayley is signing my Taiwanese Treasure booklet.!! I can remember there were just a few people waiting to see Hayley, when she came out of the Chateau.He was the one with a proffesional photocamera, and was making pictures inside the Chateau where he met Hayley and others!! Maybe Chris will recognize him too, while he was FLASHING, during the concert???
Greetings from the Netherlands JOYCE!!!

[Jeff]

Graeme, the caption you did of Hayley and Helen reminded me of a quote by Oprah Winfrey: "Successful women still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes !" (or boots in this case !!). A rather exclusive shoe shop in my home town has that in their window !

[Jeff]

I've been looking at this thread and the photos and it reminded me of a song by Don McLean ("The Grave") the words of which I feel bear repetition on this Remembrance Sunday.

When the wars of our nation did beckon
A man barely twenty did answer the calling
Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation
He's gone ! But Eternity knows him
And it knows what we've done!

And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
Leaving brown muddy clay where the earth had been dry
And deep in the trench he waited for hours
As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die,

But the silence of night was shattered by fire
As guns and grenades blasted shot through the air
One after another his comrades were slaughtered
In a morgue of marines alone standing there.

He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear
"They can't let me die ! They can't let me die here !
I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth
I'll cover myself, I know I'm not brave !
The earth ! The earth! The earth is my grave !"

The grave that they dug him had flowers
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colours
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone
He's gone........

[Stephany]

Hi everyone,

Here are three pictures of Hayley in Belgium on October 3, 2007 with Antonia Anisy, a young Kiwi girl who won an essay competition organized by the Last Post Association.

Stephany

[Nordly]

nice pics Stephany!!

[Nordly]

are there any more pics of Hayley in the 'twin outfits'? (the one she wears for the concert and the one she wears after it)

[drew]

I was freelance photographer for Soldier Magazine, the official magazine of the British Ministry of Defence.

A great gig with a fabulous journalist interviewing to one of the loveliest singers in New Zealand - Hayley Westenra .

womanwanderingphotographyblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/hayley-westenra-belgium.html

A little late but this just popped up on Di's website.

[Nordly]

cool pic, thanks!