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Choir concert

16/9/2017

The Whitacre Choir performed a musical evening to a packed audience in the Chapel. The audience was treated to a variety of songs ranging from the more familiar - the theme tune from the Vicar of Dibley, love songs from Elvis, Andy Williams and Tony Christie - to the challenging harmonies of British contemporary composer, John Rutter. Soloist Michael Pointer gave us an excellent rendition of "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" whilst Hilary Oakley gave the choir a chance to draw breath with her narration of a witty Joyce Grenfell poem. Gospel songs (with some enthusiastic audience participation) were on the agenda in the second half of the concert.
Gifts of thanks were presented to pianist David Gumbley for all his help with the concert practices and of course to choir leader Jill Howell for all her hard work and patience!
The concert has raised over £500 for the Chapel but was also held as a tribute to much loved choir member Bill Burnett who passed away very recently and whose presence and commitment to the Whitacre choir will be sorely missed.

Choir Concert

2/4/2016

Over eighty people attended the choir concert where there was a varied programme of sacred and secular music, which everyone seemed to enjoy. A total of £635 was raised for the Methodist church. Thanks are due to the choir for their hard work and to Mr. David Gumley who accompanied the choir.

Abundant Harvest

27/9/2015

Once again we have had a feast of services to celebrate the harvest festival. We had both a morning service and an evening traditional sing with the choir were well attended. The festivites has raised £179 and the food which we have collected is going to be delivered to Chapter 1 in Atherstone, which together with NWBC run "2nd chance furniture" and distribute food to those who are referred to them. Flowers have also been distributed locally to those who are not very well.
The packed and fully sold out Harvest Supper the following evening was concluded with its now familiar but never the same Vince Coggins Quiz which eventually saw a new table of winners. Thanks go to Chris and Sue for all their hard work preparing the meal and looking after us all.
Do you know who ran the first foreign excursion in 1855? How many lines are there in a sonnet? What is Sherlocks Holmes actually address? (is it a trick question?) The prize for the best answer to "where did Captain Cook first land in Australia?" has to be the memorable, even if technically non scoring "on the beach" which our quizmaster would not allow!

Thomas Cook, 14, 221B Baker Street and Botany Bay if you are interested! Yes we know 221B does not exist as well.

Recycled Dreamcoat Scarecrow

Concert success

11/10/2013

A well attended concert, in which the choir wowed the crowds with songs of love. It included some soloists and raised a total of £442 for the church funds. The choir presented their leader Jill with some flowers and commemorated their achievements with a witty well received poem which included comparing her piano playing to that is Les Dawson!

We hope you’ve enjoyed our concert tonight,
And trust we’ve managed to pitch it just right,
Songs of love were tonight’s theme
And at our age some of us can only dream.
We wish we could go back to when we were 64
When we had feeling in our fingers, toes and more!
When we could taste the honey and get drunk on the wine,

We’ve had music from The Beatles, & Gone with the wind,
Gilbert O’Sullivan, Elvis and Lloyd Webber,
Songs that will no doubt be around forever.
We’ve had solos, duets and the odd little verse,
For a couple of hours, it could’ve been worse

Now I’ve said it before Jill, but we think you are awesome
Especially when you play the piano like Les Dawson,
Like our singing it sometimes brings tears to your eyes
And in the immortal words of Morecambe and Wise
We hit all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

But joking apart, I hope you’ll agree
We are now singing in much greater harmony,
Its all down to you Jill for keeping us on track,
Especially sorting out the three at the back!!

So in appreciation for all your hard working hours
We’d like to present you with this bouquet of flowers.
By Nettie Neville

Sing-a-long Choir Concert

27/4/2012

Those who had tickets braved the rain to come to our church and listen to our very own Whitacre Choir. They sang songs from the shows and there were plenty of opportunities to sing along. Wedding music was the first section closely followed by an amusing sketch. Then the much wanted songs from the shows and musicals section including solos such as "edelweiss" and "memories." "A spoonful of sugar" was a timely organised cue for the refreshment interval which included tea,coffee and biscuits. The second half contained a mixture of well known songs such as "moon river" and more solos followed, and even a poem, which led into the community signing section at the end which included some songs in rounds. The soloists were especially good and the hilarious three little lambs song making the audience laugh heartily.
We raised £345 which is going towards our fund to makeover the chapel kitchen which needs an upgrade to smarten it up.

Choir concert

Choir Concert

Abundant Harvest

Concert success

Sing-a-long Choir Concert

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