Winter Term 2025

The choir usually rehearses on Tuesdays at 7.30pm in term time in the St Giles’ Centre.

Tuesday 4th November – Choir in the Crypt
Tuesday 11th November – Rehearsal – with Aga
Tuesday 18th November – Rehearsal – with Matt
Tuesday 25th November – Rehearsal – with Aga

Tuesday 2nd December – Rehearsal – with Matt
Tuesday 9th December – Rehearsal – with Ashley
Tuesday 16th December – Carols round Camberwell

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Upcoming Gigs / Events

Wed 10th Dec, 10am – 12 Choirs of Xmas Concert [Sub Group]
[Old Vic Theatre]

Sat 13th Dec – Christmas Market in St G’s
[Meet at 11.15am, Sing at 11.30 to 12.30pm]

Tue 16th Dec – Carols ’round Camberwell
[Details TBC, starting at Oval Tube Station]

Sun 21st Dec – Carols by Candlelight in St G’s
[Details TBC, St Giles’ Church]

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2024 & ’25 Gigs

Sat 29th Nov, 2pm – Clock / Chimes Restoration Celebration
[St Giles’ Church]

Tue 4th Nov – Choir in the Crypt
[St Giles’ Church Crypt]

Fri 7th Nov – Gig with band: Opus Kink
[Electric Ballroom, Camden]

Ruskin Park Summer Fete – @ the Bandstand
Saturday 21st June

We’ll be singing in yet another park in June! We’ll be performing immediately after Lyndhurst Primary School Choir who we’ve sung with several times before at 12.20pm at the Bandstand – if you get there a bit before that would be great!

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
Spring Fair
Sunday 11th May

Performance at 2pm & Casual clothes. We’ll be singing Stand by me,
When I fall in love, Country Roads, No Day, Maid on the Shore and (perhaps!) Bold Sir John.

Friends of Nunhead Cemetery Open Day
Saturday 17th May

We’ve never done a gig in a cemetery..! But Nunhead is one of the seven,
great Victorian cemeteries of London and we’ll be performing in the chapel at the annual open day at 12.20pm.

Away Rehearsal
Tuesday 1st April, 7pm

For our last rehearsal of term, we’re going to try an experiment! Join us at the Asylum Chapel in Caroline Gardens for an ‘Away Rehearsal’ in a beautiful, atmospheric building. Built in 1826, the chapel was bombed in WW2 and is now part-restored as a popular wedding venue – it’s an amazing space to perform in.

The Nunhead Gardener
Wednesday 4th December, 7pm

As part of the Camberwell Advent Calendar Project, we’ll be singing trad carols outside The Nunhead Gardener, Camberwell (23b Denmark Hill, SE5 8RP) for around half an hour. Meet at 7pm on location and wrap up warm!

Camberwell Community Christmas
Saturday 7th December, 12 noon

Mr and Mrs Santa Claus will be arriving in Camberwell very soon! We’re going to support a kids choir (trad carol harmonies) on Camberwell Green and then sing some of our own Christmas classics. We’ll then pop over to St Giles’ and sing in the relative warmth where an Arts Market will be going on. Meet at 11.50pm on Camberwell Green.

Carols ’round Camberwell
Tuesday 17th December, 7pm

After our successful Dec ’23 tube station and pub performances, we’ll start closer to home turf this year and meet in St Giles’ for mulled wine before singing to the gnarled tree in the churchyard. We’ll then head off into the bright lights of Camberwell! And of course, wrap up warm!

St Giles’ Carol Service
Sunday 22nd December, 6.30pm

Many of us will be singing at this one. Dress is smart casual or you can wear a cassock! Rehearsal Times are:

12.15pm – Warmup
12.30pm – 3pm Rehearsal (with breaks)
Big Break / Go home / Dinner!
4.30pm – 6pm Rehearsal
6.30pm – Service (approx 1 hour)

Autumn Concert
Featuring Rutter’s Requiem
Sunday 10th November, 6pm

1pm to 2.30pm: Warm-up & Rehearsal
2.30pm to 3pm: Break-time & Solo rehearsals
3pm to 3.45pm: Sectional rehearsals
3.45pm to 4pm: Quick break
4pm to 5.15pm: Run-through

6.00pm Concert

Dress smart casual – and black or autumnal colours might be good! We’ll also be singing ‘Still Summer Light’, ‘The Long Day Closes’ & ‘Linden Lea’ in the first half.

Choir in the Crypt
Tuesday 26th November, 7.30pm

Our annual ‘open’ mic for choir members in the crypt jazz venue underneath St Giles’. Solos / groups welcome – and there’ll be some singalongs for everyone too!