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Welcome to the website of Croydon Male Voice Choir
Southern England's most exciting male voice choir!
Registered charity number: 1112732
From familiar Essex to new-found Penge!
CMVC delighted audiences at joint concerts over successive weekends in Essex and Penge. The choir performed with the Swift Singers in South Woodham Ferrers on Saturday 18 April, then sang in the finale of the Penge Music Festival on Sunday 26 April.
CMVC thrills Penge (Photo Victoria Rockport)
Brilliant result for Kenya children's charity
24 March: The choir headlined an inspirational charity concert in Caterham on Saturday. The charity funds a deprived market community in western Kenya and the concert, with five different acts, raised a brilliant total of £3700.
Andrew conducts choir at St Mary's (photo: Andrew Greenslade)
Choir donates to Crisis homeless charity
8 February: Choir chair Kim Ormond handed a donation of £916 for the Crisis homeless charity to its representative Leigh Hall at an affecting ceremony at choir rehearsal on Thursday.
Leigh accepts £916 cheque from Kim
Fabienne delights again at Brasted
2 February: The choir staged a spirited return to St Martin's Church Brasted on Saturday, welcomed by church warden Roger Rogowski who said he had been looking forward to our visit ever since our previous concert in 2023. Guest soprano Fabienne Borget performed a storming solo act that reminded veteran choir members of her provocative performance during CMVC’s massed choir concert at Fairfield Halls in 2006.
Fabienne serenades choir front row
Choir Christmas sing hits the headlines
1 January 2026: The choir hit the headlines with its singing and charity activities during the Christmas period. It featured in Inside Croydon, the hard-hitting local news site which ran a story on New Year’s Eve (link to story below). See story here
Not Croydon, Sutton: CMVC sings at its new Christmas venue
Plaudits at two concerts
November 4: Croydon Male Voice Choir has performed two outstanding concerts in the past three weeks, winning plaudits from its hosts and audiences alike.
The first concert, on 11 October, was held at St John’s, Hurst Green. It was hosted before a packed audience by the Friends of St Catherine’s Hospice and introduced by Linda Henson, Senior Nurse Practitioner at the hospice in Pease Pottage, who spoke of the vital support it offers people with life-limiting or terminal illnesses.
Linda introduces the choir (photos Paul Binge)