About the choir.

The St Mary's Festival Choir normally sings at special services throughout the year, such as at Easter, Christmas, Harvest Festival, Remembrance Sunday and Remembering Together. It also regularly sings at a Choral Evensong on the fourth Sunday of each month.

The choir is usually available to sing at weddings, when it will sing the hymns in support of the congregation, and will, at no extra cost, perform an anthem during the signing of the register, if required. Please discuss requirements for the choir with the Parish Administrator in the first instance.

New members to the choir are always welcome. Choir rehearsals are usually on a Friday evening from 6.00pm to 7.00pm, in church.

Choir Master: Graham Hinton  [contact]  

Organist: Andrew Divine      

Choir Calendar 2021 

The Festival Choir will be singing at the following services

Activity during Lock-down / Covid 19 Restrictions
 

Updated 24th October 2021: 

During this period of restrictions on singing in church, the choir continued to meet weekly (normally a Monday  evening) via 'Zoom', to share common thoughts and fellowship, and to select the next hymn or anthem to perform. Over the intervening days each member individually recorded the chosen hymn/anthem at home while listening to a specially prepared 'master' track. The individual recordings were then centrally mixed into a single 'performance' of the music with appropriate accompaniment, and incorporated into the following Sunday's Morning worship by the vicar or curate. A list of all the recordings made can be found at the foot of this page - a link to a Youtube video of some of the  recordings may be included. Please note: For technical reasons, the accompaniment is computer generated, and therefore does not benefit from the skill, creativity and musicianship of our organist or the quality of our new organ.