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!
Rehearsals have started again and our diary is already starting to fill up with a silent film to accompany, a gig on a bandstand and a summer picnic sing. Keep checking our calendar page for the latest updates!
Well – it’s been quite some time (6 months) since your choir leaders wrote a post on the website. Apologies. We move in mysterious (lethargic) ways and we prefer to think that our lack of contact has encouraged you to come to more rehearsals to find out what on earth we’ve got in store for you. Or you could just blame our organisational skills. (What skills?)
Moving on – this summer is going to be big. Usually, we do a summer concert, perform outside in the park, join a few other choirs for another concert and so on. This term we have all that and more. The ‘more’ being ‘Organoke’, a new concept exploring the age-old link between the church pipe organ and rock and roll…
St Giles’ before organoke…
…afterwards
Essentially, we’re going to join in and lead karaoke classics accompanied on the organ in St Giles’ Church, with the help of a band, a bar and some fancy dress outfits. Admittedly, this is not a normal combination and to the best of our knowledge this hasn’t been done before and probably for good reason. But as the opening night of Camberwell Arts Festival on the 11th of June it’s going to be great and definitely something different! We’re working out exactly how it will all work but come to choir to find out more – you never know when the next post will be.
In the meantime, check out the calendar which has upcoming rehearsals and concerts and see you at choir soon!
Camberwell Community Choir 