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End of Term

A busy end to the year

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After a great start to December, singing for the Camberwell Advent Calendar project, we hit a storm! Alas – what was going to be an awesome outside Christmassy event on Camberwell Green ended up being an inside Christmassy event in St Giles’ due to Strom Darragh. Still – we had a great time combining choirs with the children of Lyndhurst Primary School – and everyone enjoyed it. Mr and Mrs Claus seemed suitably impressed!

Next up was Carol’s ’round Camberwell which boosted our charity coffers. In total, we raised £544 which will be split between Ella’s (a charity which works with women that have been exploited / trafficked) and Make it possible Ukraine (an organisation which provides amazing opportunities to displaced children in Ukraine).  

Here’s our traditional singing around the gnarled tree – and somehow, 40 of us or so fitting into the Hermit’s Cave Pub!

Finally, many of us sang at Carols by Candlelight in St Giles’ Church. Many have said this was the best carol service yet – you can even have a watch on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YObXB1Emec&t=858s

Thank you so much for your support this December and see you in 2025!

Concerts

We’re busy so we’ll make this quick!

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… but we performed at two awesome events in November.

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First up was our Rutter Requiem and English songs performance which went so well. We’re apparently responsible for some of the kids from Lyndhurst Primary School who came to see us wanting to sing Vaughan Williams songs! And then of course, our ‘Choir in the Crypt’ night. What can we say other than the quality of our soloists and groups was absolutely outstanding if we don’t say so ourselves. And we had such a good time! On to December…!

Concerts

Ruttertastic!

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Choir is back up and running again – and we’re going to be in mock choral society mode this half of term as we learn Rutter’s fantastic Requiem!

It’s a hefty piece and we’re looking forward to welcoming some instrumentalists / soloists when we perform it in November at an autumn-inspired concert.

There’s lots of rehearsals in the meantime though and it should be fun! See the calendar page for more details.

End of Term, Silent Film Night, summer

We’re out again for summer!

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We had such a fun end to our summer this year! Our silent film night, featuring ‘Blackmail’ from 1929 went down so well and this year, we had a fabulous 1920’s-style dance band to accompany us. A Hitchcock film never sounded so good!

Choir, band and suitably blood-red lighting! Thanks to Tom Leighton for all the photographs.

After the murders and treachery in Blackmail, our next gig was a little bit more family friendly. We were delighted to take part in the second week of the Camberwell Feel Good Festival in Ruskin Park. Singing in a bandstand is always fun!

Thank you to everyone who has come along and joined in at some point this term. That’s it now for the summer – but we’ll be back in September for more singing!

Cheese & Wine, Concerts, End of Term

Glorious gigs and a cheese feast

We ended up having quite a busy end to our 2024 term!

Singing with other choirs is always fun – and we really enjoyed our latest collaboration concert with the Mind & Soul choir. The Camberwell Voices concert has become a bit of a tradition and this year we were joined by some awesome guest musicians as well.

Next up, we met at Victoria Embankment to support Dementia UK as we cheered on runners at the London Landmarks Half Marathon. It was such a nice day for it and after singing for an hour non-stop outside, we needed drinks just as much as some of the runners! The Sherlock Holmes pub duly provided.

Some of us helped with Easter music at St Giles’ after that – but not before we had our fabulous Cheese & Wine night. We think it was a record-breaking selection of cheeses this year – and there was definitely something for everyone, including those with adventurous taste buds!

After a break, we’ll be back for the summer term!

New Term

Happy New Year!

We hope that you had a fabulous festive season!

Choir resumes on Tuesday 16th of January as usual in the St Giles’ Centre. Btw…

Our last December ’23 event – Carols ’round Camberwell (starting off at Oval Tube Station) raised £1306.95 together with Lyndhurst Primary School Choir for Crisis UK! What an amazing result!

Lyndhurst Choir at Vauxhall earlier in the day and then CCC at Oval with the Teletubbies! Followed by our traditional spot outside the Hermit’s.