By Jonathan White
The Wistaston Singers mixed community choir are welcoming new members as they begin a new term of performances.
The choir is keen to recruit more men to balance out their 60-member ensemble, which ranges in age from the 20s to the 80s.
By Claire Faulkner
Compered by Ste Johnston, Take a Bow, A Lyceum Legacy showcased the talent from the Lyceum Theatre Creative groups on Sunday afternoon.
The performers were made up from the Lyceum Youth Theatre, ages 5 – 18, Lyceum Lites, an inclusive theatre project for adults with neurodiversity and learning disabilities and the Lyceum Theatre Choir.
Tarporley based women’s choir Decibellas has hit a high note with its fundraising over the past 12 months.
The choir has raised thousands of pounds and dished out grants to several local mental health charities to support their work with children.
By Jonathan White
Wistaston Community Council’s annual ‘Christmas Concert’ brought festive cheer to villagers.
The concert, at St Mary’s Church Hall on Church Lane in Wistaston, featured the Wells Green Choir led by Myra Wood, The Swinging Woodpeckers and Wistaston Church Lane Academy Choir.
By Jonathan White
Local choir The Groves Singers will perform a special re-telling of the Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol” on Saturday December 16 at St Mary’s Church in Acton.
The well-known story written by Charles Dickens will be told in song, interwoven with familiar old carols.
Liv Westhead has been appointed the first ever assistant musical director for Cheshire upper voices choir, Decibellas.
Liv, 30, a singer and singing teacher in the county, will support Marcus Williams, musical director with Decibellas since 2016.
Tarporley choir Decibellas has gifted mental health charity Platform for Life over £2,000 raised from their summer concert and awarded in a grant.
The 75-strong choir for upper voices invited Platform for Life to hold a collection at their concert in St Boniface Church in Bunbury, which raised over £1,140.
Nantwich Roots Festival – which runs from May 15 to 21 inclusive – is to stage a one-off event in aid of Ukraine featuring a Ukrainian choir!
Festival organisers were keen to dedicate one night of this year’s festival to a fundraiser, with all profits going to the Disasters Emergency Committee for the ongoing Humanitarian work in Ukraine.
By Jonathan White
A South Cheshire singer has teamed up with a Ukrainian choir to release a new fundraising “A Million Flags” single.
Local jazz singer Megan Lee and acclaimed Ukrainian ladies choir Czervoni Maky came together inspired by the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Tarporley-based choir Decibellas has dished out more than £2,000 to local causes it raised from concerts held in 2022 at St Boniface Church in Bunbury.
Most of the proceeds have been awarded to local charities through small grants, it says.
Nantwich Choral Society is planning a 50th anniversary programme of concerts after ending the season on a high with a sell-out concert at St Mary’s Church.
The choir was in fine voice for Gioachino Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, an upbeat piece penned by the Italian composer in 1863 but never heard in his lifetime because he could not get permission to use female singers in church.
Nantwich Concert Band will be joining up with Stapeley Broad Lane School Choir to stage a rousing performance next month.
They will perform a concert at Nantwich Civic Hall on Sunday July 10 from 7pm.
South Cheshire cereal makers Mornflake have come to the rescue of a musical conductor too small to be seen by members of a popular community choir!
At 5ft 2in, Clare Shackleton spent much of her time on tips toes during rehearsals with Wistaston Singers until the big-hearted Gresty Road company stepped in to help.
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