Former member Ray passed away peacefully in hospital in late December ’22 after having spent a few months in a local care home due to his onset of dementia. Oxford Harmony sang to the care home residents and staff on the lead-up to Christmas although sadly Ray had already moved to the hospital by then.…

One of our three long time Honorary Members Graham Cox sadly passed away in October just after having achieved his 94th birthday. Graham hadn’t sung with us for the last few years but maintained an interest and his BABS membership. He was a member of Oxford Harmony’s predecessor White Horse Harmony and was also involved…

We were invited to sing at the lighting of the Botley Beacon which is a short walk up the hill from Matthew Arnold school.

The pandemic that dare not speak its name has put a number of things on hold during the past two years and one casualty has been the presentation of BABS awards and new member certificates.  The 2nd March saw us catching up on the backlog.  There were 10 year pin badges for Jeff, Nigel and Tony…

Clive is a longstanding member of Oxford Harmony but in the three years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic, had been working abroad during the week so hadn’t been able to attend many rehearsals.  One of the very few positive aspects of life being turned upside down for the past 21 months is that Clive…

It’s been a long search with both Covid-19 and bad luck adding to the challenge but we eventually found a worthy replacement for Anna. Will ran his first official rehearsal this evening and we all went away with a renewed enthusiasm for singing and feeling like we’d improved in the space of just a few…

We returned to our normal rehearsal venue as government Covid-19 restrictions were lifted.  It’s been a difficult 16 months during which we’ve had a lot of remote rehearsals and more recently, outside rehearsals in what could charitably be described as less than ideal conditions. It’s a relief to be back as a fully vaccinated chorus in…

On-line rehearsals until this point have been Zoom only which doesn’t work as a medium for singing together because of the delays in both video and audio. Hence Zoom gatherings were limited to social events plus singing along to teach tracks whilst muted. Jamulus is a low latency (very small delay) audio conferencing tool written…