🌟Poppies galore🌟

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Concert to support the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

To celebrate our involvement in the Poppy Appeal we were sartorially appropriate!

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The church of Our Lady of the Portal and St Piran was the venue for our Autumn concert where we were joined by the lovely gentlemen of City of Truro Male Choir.

Both choirs were in splendid voice and the appreciative audience was thoroughly enriched and entertained. The Stithians Ladies singing was enhanced by the beautiful playing of Karen on Baroque recorder and Sara on trumpet as well as the expert accompaniment if Maestro Rico. The compere, Aubin de Gruchy, gave a commentary appropriate to the occasion with gentleness and humour. There were lovely raffle prizes and an excellent sum was raised to contribute to the fine work of of the Royal British Legion.

✨MAGIC IN THE AIR✨

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STITHIANS LADIES CHOIR

The magical acoustics and atmosphere of All Saints Church, Falmouth were the setting for our Charity Concert last weekend. We were delighted to host the gentlemen of Mousehole Male Voice Choir who journeyed east to share a delightful evening of music and camaraderie whilst raising funds to support the Children’s Hospice Southwest. https://www.chsw.org.uk

MOUSEHOLE MALE VOICE CHOIR

The bold, bravura performances from the Mousehole Men were a perfect foil for the silvery tones and quirky humour of the Ladies, whilst a shared warmth of tone and resonance kept the listeners spell-bound.

THE THREE SOPRANOS modelling their new jewellery!

The audience was large and appreciative, delving deeply into their pockets to support the work of Children’s Hospice Southwest – we do not yet know the amount collected but we will be having a cheque presentation as soon as we can. Mary Murfin from the charity explained during the evening how important such collections are for this vital local resource.

Preparing to sing together.

As a finale to the concert the choirs joined together to sing the rousing Morte Christe, followed by thunderous applause, many congratulations and scrummy pasties!

⭐️A MAGIC EVENING INDEED!⭐️
watch this space for a possible repeat performance!

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💜A WONDERFUL CELEBRATION💜

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We celebrated International Women’s Day a couple of days later than the official date – we calculated that not many people would attend a concert on a Wednesday! But people certainly turned out in force to share some fine musical performances and some equally fine refreshments.

OUR WONDERFUL AND TALENTED GUESTS WERE …..

CELTIC CHORDS BARBERSHOP CHORUS
‘CELLIST BECKY McGLADE WHO PLAYED “LADIES IN LAVENDER”
SINGER ANNE PARKES

We have celebrated International Women’s Day in previous years but this was our first time in The Hub, Carnon Downs Methodist Chapel and it proved to be a lovely venue with excellent acoustics and facilities. We put up the purple decorations and balloons and enjoyed learning about the history of Women ‘s Day from our wonderful narrators Oriel and Sue.

There was a lovely friendly and inclusive feeling as we shared music, singing and, at the end of the evening, superb refreshments provided by the ladies. We were delighted to be supporting the work of Carnon Downs Memory Cafe and two of the organisers came to explain to the audience the nature of their work and how we were helping with the funding.

Here are a few more photos of the evening.

International Women’s Day is marked around the world on March 8th ( or thereabouts in our case! ) and we look forward to more celebrations in future years.

Stithians is officially switched on!

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We were invited to join in the festivities for the switch on of the Stithians Christmas Lights and what a lovely event it was. The main road through the village was closed to traffic to enable a beautiful procession of lanterns made by the children. The procession was impressively led by Kernow Pipes and Drums

There were lots of stalls in the Stithians Centre selling gifts and edibles and the mulled wine was flowing at The Seven Stars. The countdown to the switch on ushered in a blaze of gorgeous colours illuminating the traditional architecture of Stithians.

The choir was given a handy performing area in front of the Stithians Centre and we opened our programme with “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” to the delight of the audience.

To be honest – it was freezing but we were really glad that it was dry. Of course our mascot, Betty, came along too and she sensibly wore her winter drawers and big coat – joined in the singing too!

So the second of our Christmas performances came to a close with lots of smiles. We join the Stithians community again on Sunday 11th at 3pm for the Carol Service at the Methodist Church.

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SUCCESSFUL SATURDAY

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The Ladies were invited to sing at The Golden Lion Inn, Stithians to enhance the festivities of their Christmas Market. It was a lovely occasion in a relaxed atmosphere and our mascot, Betty, made her debut appearance!

Here are the Ladies enjoying their break from singing. We were delighted to welcome retired member Lee who delighted everyone with “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree “

Sopranos Viv and Trixie adding a touch of Christmas glamour

All in all everyone enjoyed themselves and we look forward to a return visit next year.

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⭐️In other news – we congratulate two of our members who sing in a Barbershop Chorus. Isabell and Kerry took part in the Camborne Music Festival singing with local group Celtic Chords and they won their class with impressive marks. More music making – more happy smiling faces ⭐️

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OOOOO BETTY!

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Meet Betty, Stithians Ladies Choir’s latest member. She is named after the Choir’s very first accompanist and was created by the talented Jane Madge from our second soprano section. Betty has yet to have a voice test but we feel she will fit into the Ladies’ shared love of music and laughter.

PS – that’s a really small chair!