Aga, Ashley and Matt wish you all a very happy summer holiday!
Rehearsals start again on Tuesday 5th of September at 7.45pm when we start work on the music for our annual silent film night. This year it’s ‘The Lodger’ and we’ll be performing it during Herne Hill Music Festival on Sunday 15th October.
We’re on holiday now – we start back on Tuesday 25th April at 7.45pm.
Thanks to everyone who came to our joint choir concert – we had a great time in Waterloo. It’s always good meeting other choirs and listening to what they’re up to.
Here’s evidence from the pub afterwards – just after singing our own unique version of ‘Happy Birthday’ in 10+ parts?! Happy Easter to everyone!
Another awesome cheese and wine night everyone! Thanks so much to Carmel who is without doubt the Queen of cheese and wine organisation. Also to everyone who brought something along – be it bottles or brie – and to anyone else who helped in any way. There are, of course, videos courtesy of Dominic – enjoy!
Cheese and wine night came after another cracking silent film night performance. ‘Blackmail’ was a huge success – there were confirmed reports of managing to make some of our audience of 260+ people cry – but thankfully due to our singing being so moving! Our rendition of Ella Fitzgerald’s ‘Undecided’ encore at the end soon dried up any tears and the party in the crypt went on ’till late. Great work all round.
It’s Christmas carol time now – and we’ll be singing at King’s College Hospital on Monday 5th of December and then at Carols ’round Camberwell on the 13th of December, which interestingly enough starts in Peckham this year. Check the diary for more details – and see you soon!
I think everyone in our choir would agree that 2014 has been a fabulous year for singing!
We’ve performed in a play at the Young Vic and sung with other choirs both in and outside of Camberwell. We’ve provided the soundtrack for a silent movie and redefined the definition of ‘wine and cheese’ night..!
To finish the year off then, last week the choir performed at Kings’ College Hospital’s Community Carol Service. The chapel at the hospital was packed with doctors, nurses, patients and other members of the hospital and local community. We sang two solo items and led the congregational carols with some awesome descants. It was a perfect service with a historical perspective too; 2014 marking the 100th anniversary of the Christmas truce in WW1, a conflict which saw many of the staff from the hospital volunteer and consequently lose their lives in the fighting.
As a choir, we really enjoy singing at occasions you might not always expect a community choir to be singing at – our silent film night is a perfect example! But singing at events in Camberwell which bring local people together is a real privilege too and since ‘community’ is in our name – we hope to continue doing it for a long time time to come.
So our last event of the year is ‘Carols ’round Camberwell’ – the last word in community carol singing! It’s on Tuesday 16th December and we’ll be performing some carols in St Giles’ church from 7pm before heading out into Camberwell – if you’re in a local pub or restaurant along church street, keep your ears pealed as we may drop in and surprise you!
Have a Merry Christmas, Camberwell.
Camberwell Community Choir 