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Southern England's most exciting male voice choir!
Registered charity number: 1112732
Magnificent at Winchester
The Croydon choir enjoyed a magnificent evening singing in a mass-choir concert at Winchester Cathedral on Saturday (November 15). The concert, featuring five male voice choirs, was in aid of the Prostate Cancer UK charity and the key-note speaker was former England cricket captain David Gower OBE.
David Gower with our CD Those Magnificent Men
In his speech, David referred to the notorious occasion when he buzzed an England match in Australia in a Tiger Moth in 1991 and was fined £1000 by the England management. Croydon MVC presented David with a copy of our CD Those Magnificent Men and he joked about this in his final speech. David also praised “the magnificent singing of these magnificent men in this magnificent venue”.
Choir sings at Westminster wedding
The Croydon choir sang at the Westminster wedding of Julia Weatherill, granddaughter of the late Commons speaker Lord Weatherill, on Saturday September 7. Afterwards we received a letter of generous praise from the bride's father, Bernard Weatherill - extracts to be found below.
The happy couple with choir members after the ceremony
The wedding was held at St Margaret’s, Westminster, known as the parish church of the House of Commons. The Croydon choir sang Battle Hymn of the Republic, Benedictus, and Be Still My Soul – also known as the Finlandia Hymn.
Brothers, sing on!
Brothers, sing on! is our latest CD - on sale at a very reasonable £10. It contains a wonderful mix of songs from our repertoire
in the last year when Richard Hoyle was our music director. It is on sale at all our concerts, or as below:
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Brothers, Sing On! is on sale for just £10. TO BUY ONE contact Andrew Dadley: Telephone 07941 890992 |
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- Brothers, Sing On! - American Trilogy - Brotherhood of Man |
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Richard Hoyle: 100 up
Croydon MVC musical director Richard Hoyle conducted his 100th concert for the choir at St John's, Eden Park, on Saturday, May 22.
Richard Hoyle enjoys a joke with Dick Diplock at St John's
Richard was warmly applauded by choir members at Eden Park ahead of the concert. The choir was on top form and afterwards Richard said it had been an excellent concert with an enthusiastic audience.
"I was conscious of how much had changed in the past ten years. The choir has grown in size, scope and ambition in a way that none of us would have envisioned."