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Choir drinks beer festival dry
COME AND JOIN US A number of people at the beer festival said they were interested in joining the choir. They are welcome to attend our informal singalong sessions at Sandilands Sports Club, Addiscombe, on Thursday evenings from 8pm to 9pm. This gives an excellent sense of what the choir is about. More information is available on this website.
July 29: Choir members who enlivened the Bromley Beer Festival with their singing yesterday also made a substantial contribution to drinking the festival dry.
The festival, at Beckenham Rugby Club, was due to last for three days. But it ran out of beer on the second evening, and choir members were credited with having hastened that outcome with their impressive quaffing of the fine range of real ales on offer.
Farewell to Roger
July 18: The choir said farewell to music director Roger Pinsent at its summer concert on Saturday, July 16. Roger received multiple prezzies, a speech of thanks from the choir chair, and resounding applause from the audience.
Roger about to receive his first prezzie from JWT and Kim
Choir storms to concert triumph
June 21: The choir scored a stunning triumph with its part in the two-choirs concert at Croydon Minster on Saturday June 18.
It sang two scintillating sets and won resounding applause and widespread praise from its concert partners in the Croydon Philharmonic Choir. CMVC music director Roger Pinsent said it was the best concert he had conducted in his four years with the choir.
Roger Pinsent leads CMVC to concert triumph (photo: Leni Gillman)
Choir tours Peterborough - at last!
May 19: The choir enjoyed a rollicking tour of Peterborough over the weekend of May 13-15, singing in two concerts as well as at the city’s renowned cathedral. The tour brought to fruition plans first laid for 2020, but postponed twice due to Covid.
Choir (Banners conducting) warms up at Peterborough Guildhall
Croydon boys score with Essex girls
The choir enjoyed a brilliant return to Essex on Saturday, singing with the Swift Singers in South Woodham Ferrers and thus renewing a musical partnership that now stretches back for a decade or more.
CMVC sings Hallelujah Chorus in Essex
Joyful Christmas return at St John's
December 12: The choir staged a spirited Christmas concert on Saturday December 11, winning plaudits and a standing ovation from a packed audience at St John’s, Shirley.
The choir was performing its first concert in Croydon since lockdown, following its appearance In West Wickham in Octoberr. It ranged through a selection from its current repertoire, including two numbers sung for the first time, Go West and Ashokan Farewell. Its rendition of Handel’s Hallelujah, sung as an encore, brought the audience to its feet.
Choir, Roger conducting, returns to Croydon