January 2020
14th Shirley Methodist, 21st St James, 28th Methodist,
February 2020
4th St James, 11th Methodist, 18th Half Term break, 25th Methodist
March 2020
3rd St James, 10th Methodist, 17th St James, 24th Methodist, 31st St James
April 2020
7th Methodist
The venues are:
St James the Great Church, Stratford Road/Church Road, Shirley, Solihull, B90 2AX.
Shirley Methodist Church, 257 Stratford Road, Shirley, Solihull, B90 3AL
Outside the RSC in Stratford upon Avon
concert begins at 7:00 pm on Saturday 2nd December
Come and invite your friends to this feast of Choral Music. Three choirs for the price of one! Our share of the proceeds will go to St Basils which prevents youth homelessness by providing support and accommodation. More details on http://www.stbasils.org.uk/ We will be singing:
Let Me Ride
Bless The Lord With Me
Soon and Very Soon
Rainyday Getaway
This Little Light of Mine
Deep Down in My Soul
Amazing Grace
Goin’ Home
Delighted to announce that Katie Roe has accepted our invitation to be our new Music Director. We will get her profile on this site as soon as we can.
Another terrific Annual Concert where we said farewell to our Director Chis Holley. We raised £552.40 for This Way Up, which works in Solihull secondary schools among young people who are coping with loss in their lives eg bereavement or family breakdown.
Singing our first item
Our accompanist George Ireland, who also serenaded us with ‘Au Clair De La Lune’ and Beethoven’s Pathétique. Thank you so much George
Chris joking with the audience. Some of us laughed!
Cheryl Hawkins, Director of This Way Up, sharing some of the fantastic work, this charity does in Solihull Secondary schools.
Will Tuckwell our virtuoso guitarist playing one of his two jazz pieces, including ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’. Great stuff!
Chris Holley receiving a standing ovation from the choir – richly deserved. Chris will shortly be moving to Cardiff, Shirley’s loss is certainly Cardiff’s gain.
The This Way Up information table with Director Cheryl Hawkins and Trustee John Bradley. Cheryl writes: “It was a great event with lots of community spirit and I’m very pleased to let you know that a total of £552.40 was put into our collecting bucket! This certainly exceeded my expectations. Please pass on my appreciation to the choir members for a very enjoyable and successful evening for This Way Up.”
If you want to hear the arrangement of Goin’ Home, click on this link: Goin’ Home Link
We held a mini concert as part of an open day at Shirley Methodist Church. We sang five songs which seemed to go down very well.
Full Choir
Chris and Will Rehearsing
entertaining the Layca regulars after their Christmas meal
the soprano section
the whole group with Wendy conducting
Wendy conducting the audience
the bass and soprano sections
the alto and bass sections
