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Spring/Summer 2024 update

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What a year! This was Lorraine’s final few months as our director, after 17 years. It was a very busy summer!

Bangor International Choral Festival 26th – 28th April 2024

This competition was in Bangor, Northern Island. We were very proud to take second place in the Female Choirs section and had fantastic feedback from the adjudicators.

Llangollen International Eisteddfod – 6th July 2024

What an honour to be accepted to compete here! We didn’t win, but loved both participating and watching other choirs and performers.

Summer concert – Tree of Song

This concert took place on Saturday18th May 2024 at our usual venue, St George’s Church, Altrincham. It was a beautiful day and the concert was very well attended. The prosecco might have helped!

Spring/Summer 2024 – upcoming events

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We have lots of exciting performances this year.

Bangor International Choral Festival 26th – 28th April 2024

This competition is in Bangor, Northern Island. We will enter 2 classes in this competion: Female Voice Choir and Sacred Music. We are already preparing for this concert.

Llangollen International Eisteddfod – 6th July 2024

We are very proud to have been accepted to sing in the Female Voice Choirs class for this prestigious competition.

Future concerts

In addition, we have our own concerts:

  • Summer concert, Saturday18th May 2024 2.30pm at St George’s Church, Altrincham. Tickets are now on sale or click here for more details.
  • Winter Concert, Sunday 1st December 2024 2.30pm at St George’s Church, Altrinchm

Winter 2023

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We have taken part in a number of events during December.

Winter Hymnal – Concert on 3rd Dec 2023

This was a lovely concert on a winter afternoon with special guests, violinists Charlie Roberts and Nina Doig.

Charlie and Nina played some beautiful duets and solo pieces, as well as accompanying us in The Snow.

We sang a variety of songs, including our Isle of Man programme, Underneath the Stars (a Kate Rusby song), White Winter Hymnal with body percussion and a few carols and Christmas songs.

Warming up before the concert

Light up a Life for St Anne’s Hospice

Once again we sang at St Peter’s Church, Hale on Wed 6th Dec for the annual Light up a Life service. The choir sang the beautiful Where the Light Begins (Susan LaBarr) during the lighting ceremony.

Halecroft Residential Home and The Bull’s Head, Hale Barns

On Thursday 14th Dec, we sang carols for the residents of Halecroft Residential Home. Many residents came down to hear us sing and they joined in with some of the well-known carols.

We continued the evening across the road at The Bull’s Head, where we sang carols then disappeared upstairs for our own social with buffet.

Carols in the Stamford Quarter, Altrincham

Our final performance of the year was on Saturday 16th December where we sang carols for an hour in the Stamford Quarter as part of the Festive Family Fun Day. We collected £124.85 for CAFT (the Children’s Adventure Farm Trust). A half day visit for a family to CAFT costs £12, so we were able to fund 10 visits.