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Information About The Choir
Background information about The Choir
Musical Director – Paul Kelly
Assistant Musical Director – Tim Marsh
Accompanist – Rosemary Whiteford
The choir regularly gives concerts in a variety of venues in Shropshire and beyond. In doing so, has helped raise money for numerous charities.
1980 saw the choir’s first overseas tour, to Thiers in France. Since then we have been on some 25 tours, some abroad, some in this country.
During the period of the Shrewsbury International Musical Festival we had the pleasure of sharing the stage in concert with a number of choirs from abroad.
UK choirs have also been welcomed and the joint concerts enjoyed by all. These include Lon Dhoo Choir IOM; Regal Singers, IOM; Icknield MVC; Cwmtawe MVC; Greater Manchester Police Choir; Northampton MVC; Rhayder MVC; Rame Peninsula MVC; Llanelli MVC; Newquay MVC and East Fife MVC.
The choir has joined other choirs for massed choir concerts at Telford, Manchester, Llangollen, Cardiff, Dublin and Birmingham.
Through making contacts with European Choirs we have visited and hosted choirs from Holland, Germany, Belgium and France.
The choir usually goes away for long weekends (sometimes longer) at least once a year joining a local choir or band for a concert on a Saturday evening. We have had enjoyable weekends on the IOW, the IOM, Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey and in Swansea, Totnes, Beer, Ilfracombe, Formby, Newquay, Plymouth and Perth.
Learn more about our choir on this site, or visit http://www.muchwenlockguide.info/ to learn more about Much Wenlock.
on March 3, 2010 at 6:35 pm
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i would like to purchase your cds for my farther but have been unable to find them
on March 4, 2010 at 3:01 pm
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There is a CD with some of our singing on, when we performed at Kendal with K-Shoe’s choir. We sing in all the massed choir peices and at least one peice with just us is on the CD. I don’t think we have any copies for general sale though! I shall pose the question to the chairman/secratery and see if they have any further details.
on July 10, 2010 at 5:27 pm
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Just a preliminary enquiry – The Tamar Valley MVC will be in Concert with Anglesey MVC on 17th. Sept. 2011. Would your Choir be interested in a joint Concert on the Friday (16th.) if we stopped in Much Wenlock for the Friday night: we are looking to travel part way on the Friday and then on to Anglesey on the Saturday. I see you already have links with several Cornish Choirs. Best wishes – Tom Bromidge – Assistant Treasurer
Our website is tamarvalleymvc.co.uk