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A new look – summer has arrived!

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The concert on Saturday with Tamar Valley was very enjoyable, with some lovely and moving performances by both choirs and the soloists. The evening included some amusing stories by Adrian Wilton, the compere, who had the audience in stitches on a couple of occasions.

It was also the first outing of our new purple uniform tops – our summer look – which is a bit cooler than the red and black worn in the winter. We received several compliments on the new look and also on the singing, which Bea has described as some of the best we’ve produced.

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Our next concert

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Our next concert, in Okehampton on Saturday 12 April, with Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir, fast approaches. It’s in aid of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (R.A.B.I.), which provides a lot of support for farming communities. We’re looking forward to an enjoyable evening, and although it will be a little strange without George on the piano, we are privileged to be joined by our good friend Roger Wills as accompanist.

Our part of the programme will include – Whenever I’m here with you, As long as I have music, Across the skies, Bring him home, Where is love?, Lord bless you and keep you, Weep no more, Alexander’s ragtime band, You’ll never walk alone.
Alongside our pieces, there will be various (as yet unknown) items by TMVC, soloists, a duet and a joint performance of Morte Christe at the end.

The concert starts at 7.30pm in Fairplace Church, Okehampton (directions to the church can be found here).

Links to find out more:
Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir

R.A.B.I.

Ocean World rehearsals have started!

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Rehearsals for Ocean World are underway. The Choir has started going through several of the pieces, mostly from early on in the show, including the scene-setting The Enigma of the Deep and the lively Angels and Butterflies.

Two of our soloists, Anne-Marie and Curtis, have been practising the catchy duet between the mother whale and the dolphin, called Cousin Dolphin. It has one of those tunes that gets stuck in your head, and is going to be brilliant by November (it’s already really good). We’ve had a run through of Dolphin School, which Curtis sings the lead with the Choir joining in for the verses.

Concert in Okehampton, 12 April

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Our next concert is on Saturday 12 April with Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir in Okehampton. The event is in aid of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (R.A.B.I.) at Fairplace Church, Okehampton.

More information about R.A.B.I. and Tamar Valley MVC can be found via our links.

Charity concert on 28 February

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539635_545961005455145_2002080702_nOn Friday 28 February  we are taking part in a charity concert in aid of St Michael’s Well, St Joseph’s School, Kabailor, Sierra Leone.

The concert starts at 7.30pm, at St Michael’s Catholic Secondary School, Trevu Road, Camborne, and features performances by St Michael’s pupils and Stithians Ladies Choir.

So far St Michael’s has raised £2,400 to provide St Joseph’s School in Kabailor, Sierra Leone, with a source of clean drinking water. Construction of the well is under way, but a further £600 is needed to ensure that the pump mechanism can be purchased and fitted before the rains begin in early May, or the work will have to stop for another season.

There is no entry fee to the concert, but donations will be collected for this worthy cause. Every penny raised will go to the well. If you need help to find the school in Camborne, click on our link below.

The well at St Joseph’s is one of several projects undertaken by the charity Cara Coweth Water Sierra Leone, based in Stithians, which raises money to provide clean water for villages in Sierra Leone. More information about their work can be found on Facebook – have a look on our links section below to find out more.