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MID WESSEX SINGERS – THE PAST EIGHT YEARS
On 15 September 1999 Mid Wessex Singers held their inaugural meeting. Twenty-five years later, despite some bumpy times, the choir is still going strong and entering its twenty sixth year. To illustrate a bumpy time, in January 2016, having lost several members, including three basses, to Millfield Choir, Mid Wessex
CHOIR HISTORY – THE WELLS CATHEDRAL ERA 2004 – 2016
In September 2004 Ian MacLeod Jones became Musical Director. This started a long association with musicians from Wells Cathedral as Musical Directors with access to accompanists, soloists and instrumentalists. Founder member, Janet Hayter, remembers that time. ‘The first Christmas Concert led by Ian Macleod Jones from Wells was on 4th
Rowena Wallace
Rowena Wallace was a founder member of the Mid Wessex Singers and was still singing with us in the weeks before her death on 12 May 2024. Many choir members were honoured to attend her funeral service on 31 May and sing one of her favourite pieces
A MEMORABLE CELEBRATION
January 2024, the start of a new year for the Mid Wessex Singers, but not any old year. The choir was formed 25 years ago in September and preparations begin for our Silver Anniversary celebrations with our concert in May. Our Musical Director, Alice Dicker, had researched and trawled through
Mid Wessex Singers – the first five years 1999-2004
In 2024 we are celebrating 25 years of Mid Wessex Singers. The inaugural meeting, organised by co-founders James Turner and John Goacher, was held in September 1999. Thirty four members were recruited – three of those members are still singing with the choir today! One original member, Janet Hayter, has
We sang for the Lord’s Larder
Pauline, our Chair recently presented a cheque for £500 to Mat at the Lord’s Larder in Yeovil. This amount was raised through donations at our Christmas concert together with a contribution from the proceeds of our concert. Mat was very grateful. ‘Thank you to everyone at Mid Wessex Singers
Oh what fun it is!
If you are a member of the Mid Wessex Singers choir, Christmas starts in early September, the 5th to be exact. Cast your mind back to September, wall to wall sunshine, boiling temperatures – would summer ever end? The West Street Church Hall in Somerton was sweltering – doors
In the Christmas spirit
A few of the Mid Wessex Singers getting into the Christmas spirit on Thursday 14 December entertaining the crowd eating and drinking at the Kitchen, Great Bow Wharf, Langport.