There’s nothing quite like a last-minute panic before a concert, and this was a biggie: our soprano soloist, Gill Wilson was taken ill and, at twenty four hours’ notice, we needed to find a replacement. In the event, Paula Downes stepped in and scored a triumphant success.

… and rehearsals start this coming Wednesday for our Christmas concert. We will be performing Vivaldi’s “Gloria”, Christmas music from Handel’s “Messiah”, and Christmas carols.

We have also been invited to take part in the BBC Radio Suffolk Carol Concert this year, which takes place in the Britten Studio, Snape Maltings at 4 pm on Saturday 16th December.

It will be a busy few months, but great fun!

Our summer concert this year, in the beautiful setting of St Mary & St Martin, Kirton!

Not that it feels much like summer, here at the end of April, but we have started rehearsals for our Summer Concert. The concert will take place at Kirton Church on 17th June and we will tell you more – much more! – in due course. Meanwhile, I have posted a few photographs of the “Cathedral Classics” concert on our Facebook page, just follow the link.

As we take our half-term break, we’re looking forward to …

Our Spring concert, “Cathedral Classics” will take us from Thomas Tallis to Howard Goodall; from the earliest post-Reformation settings of English Bible verses to the Vicar of Dibley. Uplifting both to sing and to listen to, we hope you will join us in March at St John’s, Orwell Road.

… until the concert. If the wonderful sound the choir was making on Wednesday night is anything to go by, it will be one to remember.

Possibly not what you expected for our “Christmas” concert, but this is a programme of wonderful music for Advent, just what you need to clear your head ready for the full-on Christmas experience.

Wednesday 26th October

Half-term – no rehearsal

Friday 4th November

Soup and Supper Evening at Broadway House
Orwell Road, Felixstowe.
Tickets £5.00

Wednesday 10th December

Rehearsal at Trinity Methodist Church, Orwell Road