The Community Choir was the brain child of Kylie Ferris the Music Therapist at the Hospice in the Weald. For the taster session on Tuesday 21 May 2013 60 enthusiastic people bowled along to see what it was all about. The idea was not just to benefit the patients, but their families and carers, staff volunteers and anyone in the community who wanted to sing.
After the first taster session 40 people signed up to join the choir and from the first rehearsal on 4 June the choir produced a really great sound.
Our first Christmas we sung with the Salvation Army at the “Light up a Life” service.
The following spring we performed in our first concert “Spring Serenade”. We took part in the “Summer Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving” for the Hospice at St. Peter’s Upper Church in Pembury and used the same venue for an autumnal music and magic show “November Notes”. We attended the “Light up a Life” service again and also went carol singing with our money buckets in the Victoria Centre at Tunbridge Wells.
We grow and mature each year and we are getting more adventurous too!
It is never too late and everyone is welcome. Come and join us and share in the joy of singing. We donate £5 per person every rehearsal to cover our costs and to go towards fundraising for the Hospice.
Come on, contact us, we are just waiting to hear from you.
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