News
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“Men – Sing A Cappella” workshops 2016
The first evening of the set of workshops designed to attract more local men to the attraction of close harmony singing saw a small group of people arrive to see what was on offer. John Carter and Anna our Chorus Director put the new men plus the existing chorus through a series of warm up…
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Irene’s 90th birthday party
What a pleasure it was to sing to Irene, her relations and friends at St John the Baptist Hall Church, Kidlington on Saturday. Songs especially chosen from our repertoire seemed to go down really well including those such as the “Hippo Song” which Irene and the audience could readily recognise and join in. The challenge…
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Oliver Sims 1945 – 2015
As many of the chorus as were able and who knew Oliver attended a celebration of his life at West Berkshire Crematorium on Wednesday 2nd September. Oliver (Ollie) had been fighting cancer for a while and sadly passed away on 22nd August. The celebration of his life was attended by a packed crematorium of family…
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Wantage Music Festival – 2015
What do you do when a young woman says you are “Tremendous and Gorgeous”? Well in this writer’s case his blushes were unfounded as this was the adjudicator’s verdict when referring to the whole chorus’ (well 10 members) performance at the above event. With good acoustics and a packed audience our two songs, “You Make…
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Jericho street fair
A group of 14 singers performed at the above event with our slot being in St Barnabas’ Church which was adjacent to the street. As it was raining most of the day, we were not unhappy to be singing inside. Despite the rain, the atmosphere in the street was tremendous with plenty of stalls and…
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Abingdon Music Festival – 2015
The adjudicator’s verdict of our performance when we sang at the Abingdon Music Festival was “Outstanding”. She went on to say: Thank you for joyful, energetic, vibrant singing. You gave me a happy ending to a long day The chorus chose the two songs that we have entered in to this year’s BABS convention –…
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Cokethorpe Scholars’ Dinner
Wow! What a revelation this singout turned out to be. Being invited to sing at the Scholars’ Dinner at this very smart and traditional school near Witney, we arrived to provide “background accompaniment entertainment” while the guests were arriving for dinner. They were of all ages; from about 12 years old upwards. The head teacher’s…
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New Recruits Receive Certificates – 2015
The photo shows three of our members receiving their BABS membership certificates. Sarosh Irani and Steve Fisher joined the chorus after attending our recent “Learn To Sing” evenings. Richard Wenninger has been with us for a while but his certificate has only recently become available.
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Anna Shackleton our new MD
We have recently managed to obtain the services of Anna Shackleton as our music director designate. Anna is now a member both of our club and BABS (the British Association of Barbershop Singers). Our acting musical director, John Carter, is looking forward to returning to his role of tenor section leader.
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Oxford Music Festival – 2015
We were entered in two classes this year; Male Voice Choir and Open Barbershop. Due to several withdrawals by other choruses in both categories there were fewer competitors than we had anticipated. This meant that in the Male Choir category we came out on top; Out of one entry! The adjudicator gave us a “Commended”…