After over a year rehearsing on Zoom it is good to be back rehearsing together at St James and Shirley Methodist.
This is an excellent opportunity to rejoin us or even to join us for the first time.
Let me know if you are interested at john.wendy.bradley@virginmedia.com
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
Shirley Community Gospel Choir 