Membership: You are cordially invited…

If you have navigated to this point you will presumably be interested in joining us.

Let me say here and now that if you are uncertain, you will be most welcome to come along to a rehearsal or two, meet us, sing with us and decide whether you like us enough to join permanently! The Secretary and I will welcome you and introduce you to your Section Voice Rep who will look after you during the evening. They will also check with you before you depart that you have been well looked after.

Although we do not audition new members, we do have a few requirements – hopefully, none of them onerous. You will pick up some of them at various points on this site but here are some which might be important to you in helping you decide whether we are the right choir for you:

• Members need to be able to sing in tune and have some basic musical ability.
• We rehearse every Monday evening from 7.30pm to 9.30pm and ask that you attend regularly. No more than three rehearsals should be missed in one term (there are three terms in the year). In the two weeks preceding a concert there may be additional rehearsals on other evenings. There is always a rehearsal in the afternoon, at the concert venue, on the day of a concert, typically from 2.00pm to 5.00pm.
• We currently sing three concerts per year and we hope that you would be able to participate in them all, however attendance at all three is not compulsory.
• The annual subscription, presently £180, is payable at the beginning of each new season (September). New members can pay on a termly basis (£60 per term) during their first year of membership. Under 25’s pay half and full time school students join for free.

Do please take that first step and make contact. There is no obligation but I am sure that, like the rest of us, you will be glad that you did.

I look forward to meeting you.

Liz Wallace

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