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Choir News 3rd July 2018.
Our choir has recently been very sad to lose one of our long standing members, Ann Carr, who died in April. Several of our singers have also suffered bereavement and loss of close family members.
On a happier note, we have seven new singers and have been working hard to add new songs to our programme.
Saturday, 29th July, will always be remembered as the day we joined forces with the Barnburgh Male Voice Choir to perform John Rutter’s cycle of spirituals – Feel the Spirit – at Wentworth Church. Having worked on the pieces since January, sometimes flagging along the way, it was most uplifting and gave us a great sense of achievement. What a splendid evening! Thank you to the Male Voice Choir, to Andris and to all the ladies in the choir who worked solidly to learn the music.
So now we become two choirs again. The Village Singers will be busy in September with a concert at the United Reform Church at Intake in Doncaster on Thursday, 14th, and another concert on Saturday, 23rd at St. Andrew’s Church in Epworth.
We have six dates to confirm for December – but Carols on the Green in Barnburgh will be on Friday, 8th December at 6.30pm with the Village Singers and Rockingham Band. Everyone welcome.
We have had a great weekend of Concerts and gatherings during the visit from Donaghadee Male Voice Choir, we wish our friends farewell once more and look forward to our next meet up. Please view the latest photographs on our Gallery 2017 Page and further photographs of the occasion are also available on the Donaghadee Facebook Page
Now for something entirely new!
We are teaming up with our counterparts, the Barnburgh Male Voice Choir, to form a mixed choir in order to perform a cycle of spirituals arranged by John Rutter, entitled ‘Feel the Spirt’. This is an exciting development for both choirs. As yet, we have no definite venue or date; we are still in the early stages of learning the music, but the concert will be well advertised when the everything is finalised. We hope that you will come along and support us on the night!
Our first major outing of Christmas was our Carols on the Green event which is always well attended by some two hundred or so villagers. After the big tree lights were illuminated, down came the rain, so we all trooped into St. Peter’s Church and held the event in there. It was rather full – but a good natured carol fest ensued; Rockingham Band were really good sports, and there was mulled wine and mince pies in abundance.
A regular event on our Christmas programme is the concert in Swinton Church sponsored by Mexborough Rotary Club. It is always a splendid evening which we share with Rockingham Band and Swinton Queen Street School Choir. It goes without saying that the children are the stars of the show – and well deserved!
Then, the third of our trilogy of church evenings was held at Goldthorpe Church, when we were invited to share the concert with the Thurnscoe Harmonic Male Voice Choir – our last event before Christmas. Our relationship with this choir goes back almost to when we first started singing some fifteen years ago. With these events and a few carol singing engagements at other venues – we had a busy time of it.
We have much to look forward to in 2017. We are hosting another visit from the Donaghadee Male Voice Choir from County Down at the beginning of May – there will be two concert evenings on Friday, 5th May and Saturday, 6th May. Thurnscoe Male Voice Choir will also be joining us for this weekend. More details of concert venues as they become available.
Finally, something new and exciting. We are hoping to join forces with our counterparts the Barnburgh Male Voice Choir for a joint concert with a difference. Both choirs are learning a cycle of Spirituals arranged for mixed voices by John Rutter, entitled ‘Feel the Spirit’- so sopranos, altos, tenors and basses all singing together. We haven’t even started learning the music as I write, but will post more details about the performance later in the year.
Happy New Year from us all.
Julia and the Barnburgh Village Singers.
We do hope to see you at one of our upcoming festive gatherings during December 2016.
Featuring Donaghadee Male Voice Choir, Barnburgh Village Singers and Thurnscoe Harmonic Male Voice Choir performing ‘Every Time I Feel The Spirit’.
