We have just one more half-day rehearsal for our concert on Saturday 14th October, and we’re really enjoying the music. Last Saturday was the first in ‘seating plan’ – the point when we find out just how well we know our parts! The Jonathan Dove piece ‘Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars’ is a…
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Christmas Concert December 2022
We’re delighted to be giving a full-strength concert this Christmas at St Michael’s in Lewes. It’s on Sunday 18th December at 6pm and the programme includes an eclectic mix of lovely seasonal music and carols. Joining us are five fabulous players: violinists Julia Bishop and Ally Bury with Jan Schlapp on viola, Anna Holmes on…
Two Summer Concerts
A small group of us are singing a summer concert at the end of this month, which we’re calling My Spirit Sang All Day, after the song by Gerald Finzi which is on the programme. We’re actually performing it twice – on Friday 29th July in St Nicholas Church in the lovely village of Iford…
Christmas concert 2018
The hire music is on its way, the posters and flyers have arrived and the ads have been booked… really looking forward to our Christmas concert which will be on Sunday 23rd December at 6pm at St Michael’s in Lewes – we should all be in the Christmas mood by then! We’re thrilled to be…
Planning for the Christmas concert
The September concert went fabulously – a full audience, Briony was fantastic in ‘In the Beginning’, I managed to squeak out my ‘mouse’ solo without developing a frog in the throat, the singers gave their all. Loads of lovely compliments, such as ‘we won’t hear a better concert in this church for some time’… hopefully not too…
Singing for a Healing Service this weekend
The Lewes Singers’ first outing is this Sunday 11thMay when we’ll be the choir at St Michael’s in Lewes for a special afternoon Healing Service – it will be a combination of Evensong and Compline. We’ll be singing the Wood in D Magnificat, Brahms’ Geistliches Lied, and Stanford Beati Quorum Via, all lovely. There will also…
Plans for 2014 and beyond
Happy New Year! It’s been a lovely Christmas season from a concert point of view, and although we weren’t officially performing Nick did form up a vocal ‘octet’ to sing at the biennial Amnesty International Benefit Concert, ‘In the bleak Midwinter’, at St John’s Sub Castro in Lewes just before Christmas. The event was organised…
CD now on sale!
It’s been a labour of love but our CD is finally out. Full details are on this page. It’s available from Skylark (in the Needlemakers) in Lewes, online from this website and from members of the choir. Lots of lovely English music – motets/anthems and a few madrigals too. We’ll be singing some of the…
Concert in Lewes
This Sunday 18th November we are giving a concert at St Michael’s Church on the High Street in Lewes, at the early time of 6pm. Nick became the organist and Director of Music at St Michael’s just a couple of months ago, and already has plans for some lovely music making there. The church has…