Blythburgh - 1999

 

Events

 

Future Events

  • Choir weekend away in Clacton January 25th to 27th 2008.

Recent Events

  • A concert in Dulwich on 10th November 2007 to raise funds for St Christopher's Hospice at St Barnabas Church.

  • A second tour in the Neuchatel area in Switzerland during August 2007 with 3 excellent concerts hosted by 3 different local choirs.

  • In July 2007 we sang in a "Last Night of the Proms" concert staged as the finale of the Uckfield Festival.

  • Once again we entered the International Male Voice Choir Festival in Truro, May 2007 and gain the highest mark for a British Choir in the small choir section which earned us 3rd place overall.

  • Christmas Concert with Russell Painter (tenor). December 9th 2006. Bewdley (near Kidderminster, Worcestershire).

  • Our long weekend in Slovenia (click to read the report) at the beginning of May 2006 featured concerts in Ajdovščina and Rogaška Slatina and an all night cellar-crawl in the mountains as well as sight-seeing in caves, seaside and alpine lakes and a dinner with the Ambassador.

  • Carol singing in London Bridge Station in December raised a record amount for The Children's Society.

  • In October 2005 our 25th Anniversary Concert in Holy Trinity Prince Consort Road (next to Imperial College) gathered together all the choir's founder members and many old friends from far and wide, including 8 guest sopranos, instrumentalists, dancers and all 5 of The Three Tenors!

  • We were the highest placed British Choir and overall 4th in the International Male Voice Choir Festival in Truro, April 2005.

  • Release of our 3rd recording available now on CD. Please contact the Secretary for more information.

  • 25th Anniversary weekend of rehearsals, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk  January 22nd / 23rd 2005.

  • We performed a Charity concert for Willow Foundation, Welwyn Garden City, 22nd December 2004.

  • In October and November 2004 we completed our third recording at Platt in Kent. We also gave a musical send-off to Bernard and Breda, our hosts over the last 10 years at the Morpeth Arms.

  • The tour to Neuchatel area of Switzerland from August 21st to 29th, 2004 was deemed to be a resounding success. Concerts took place in Sainte Croix on August 26th and in St Aubin on August 28th. Read all about it in the Swiss tour report.

  • We sang a highly successful concert in Lamberhurst in Kent on Saturday July 3rd 2004 as the finale of their festival. The soloist was Claire Lapworth, soprano, and there was a guest appearance from “The Three Tenors”.

  • In the summer of 2003 we performed a concert in Great St Mary’s Church, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire in aid of their restoration appeal.

  • Following an approach by Geoff Stephens, the well-known pop composer, we went to his studio in Herne Hill to record a demo. track of his composition for remembrance day, “For the Fallen”.

  • At Christmas we sang seasonal fare as usual at The Morpeth, raising almost Ł100 for The Childrens’ Society, and welcomed the new landlord Peter and landlady Jo. A few of us also supported the outdoor carol-singing at the aptly named Southwark Frost Fair outside Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

 

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