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Southern England's most exciting male voice choir!
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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
Remembering Dot
DECEMBER 3: Choir members sang on Monday in memory of Dot Stevens at the Croydon care home where she died in September. Dot was the beloved wife of choir top tenor George Stevens and they had been married for 64 years.
George sings for Dot, backed by choir members
The choir performance, at Hayling Park Care Home, lasted for an hour and included a range of songs from its current repertoire. Nessun Dorma and When the Saints were especially well received.
Singing for Jilly
SEPTEMBER 15: Members of the Croydon choir made a spirited and affecting appearance at the Cecil Court care home in Kew on Monday September 13.
The fifteen who sang for Jilly at Cecil Court
One of the care home residents, Jilly, is the partner of choir tenor Dick Jones, who organised the event.
We're back!
OCTOBER 12: Dave Bannister writes: "We're back!" These were Music Director Roger Pinsent's first words to a packed and expectant audience at the church of St Francis of Assisi in West Wickham on Saturday. Twenty months had passed since our last concert performance and choir members were in a state of nervous anticipation.
Choir delights packed audience (photos Paul Binge)