summer singing

Why should singing stop in the summer?

Well we decided we didn't want to stop, so over the summer we're having our practices at the Salutation Inn, in Ham, very close to Berkeley.
First rehearsal is 28th July at 7.15. Just turn up and ask for the Skylarks. We'll probably be in the skittles alley!

£3 as session.

a wonderful concert and some fabulous rehearsals

First of all I apologise for being so tardy with keeping things up to date!

We have just had a wonderful concert at Coaley Village Hall, where the choir shared the stage with students of Time to learn Piano. A set of gospel, a capella songs and some pop songs accompanied by guitar and keyboard were very well received.

We're now preparing for the first summer season. Over the summer we'll be rehearsing and singing at the Salutation Inn in Berkeley, and then return to the Town Hall in September.

There is a great line up of music for us to work on over the next few months, including jazz, folk songs and contemporary versions of some older songs and carols, for the Christmas season.

Everyone is always welcome at the choir, it's a friendly place to come, where you will be made very welcome. We always have a break for tea and cake (today's millionaire's shortbread, thanks Marie, was amazing!) and I guess at the pub over the summer, it'll be a liquid break too!

In the winter we try to go and sing at local nursing and old age homes as well as sing at the Christmas concert at Coaley Village Hall. In the past we have sung for the Dursley Lions and Berkeley WI, and are always interested in requests to sing.

new term!

It was great seeing you all yesterday at the start of the new term. We're looking forward to singing some songs you already know, and some you don't and getting them tip top for our performance at the Coaley Village Hall in June.

I'm delighted that some of you also have decided to go to the Colston Hall in Bristol to see Gareth Malone and his choir. I for one am really excited about this- one of my heroes, I can't wait (but I have to... till December!) to see him live!

We would love to welcome new singers, so please do encourage your friends to come along, and have a go.

Good singing!

great singing tonight!

Wow! another storming night. All you men, you Bryn Terfel soundalikes, and gorgeous floating sopranos (those top notes were hard work though, weren't they?) and the richness of the harmonies. The dynamism when you throw away the music and sing totally from the heart. We need more of that- 100% of the time and then we'll all be feeling totally amazing!

Looking forward to next week- let's come up with some suitably crazy ideas for the new version of Nelson's Blood.

time to commit

Don't forget that we're singing at a charity concert/tea party at Coaley Village Hall on 23rd November. Lots of people really missed us at the last concert, so please sign up and be there! It's always a great afternoon, the tea and cake flows, and everyone thoroughly enjoys it. So if you haven't singed up yet, please do so as we need you all to make that difference.

Christmas is definitely coming!

We're going to start work on the first carol of this festive time of year this week. We're producing a pack of the carols we're going to learn, partly so that you have them all together and they don't go walk about, and also so that when we sing in public we look as professional as we sound! So remember that £1 coin when you come along to choir this week!

the geese are getting fat...

It's that time of year again.... next week we plan to start on a small selection of carols to add to the mix of pop and gospel we've been working on this term, so that we can answer the call when requests for Christmas entertainment come in!

The plan is, over the next few weeks, to get some carols under our belt so we can focus on making all our pieces sound wonderful.

See you next week!