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Has TV's "Last Choir Standing" Inspired you to join a choir?

Posted on Monday, 01 September 2008 01:40PM by



Here’s your chance to join Quire, Colchester’s sensational World Music Community Choir

If watching BBC TV’s ‘Last Choir Standing’ has inspired you to join a  community choir – then this is the opportunity for you!

Quire, Colchester’s own hugely successful world music choir of over 60 voices is welcoming new members who want to sing.  Men and Women over 18 are all welcome.

‘If the TV show Last Choir Standing lit a spark in your heart – and made you want to get up and sing  - then Quire could be just right for you. Come along to a rehearsal night and see if  Quire is for you!   We welcome men and women who want to sing.  says Prof Bill Tamblyn, Music director of Quire.

Quire’s first rehearsal of the new term is 7pm Thursday 11 Sept.   Quire meet at 7pm prompt every Thursday evening at Lion Walk Church Hall – opposite Boots and next to Costa Coffee in Lion Walk Shopping Centre. Arrive at 1845 for a 1900 start.   
“Quire is unique – like no other choir I know.  We sing from the heart and with passion. As well as singing in four part harmony (Bass, Tenor, Alto and Soprano), we dance, move, clap, drum and perform music from around the world.   African music has become our speciality and our passion!”

“This year we are looking forward to a new year with new challenges.

“Quire has a busy year ahead with concerts, workshops, and an Education Outreach programme.  Quire will spend one day with pupils in each of ten schools in the Tendring area over the next six months to promote the Government Singing initiative – Sing Up – which will involve world music.

“Quire is invited to perform at the Salvation Army Citadel in November – a first for Quire.”   Music Director Bill Tamblyn is working on aspects of European music for this year so that Quire will add  ‘European’ songs to it’s world music repertoire which already includes ‘African’ Caribbean’ Maori’ Hispanic’ and many more.  “An evening with Quire is a unique experience where audiences are positively encouraged to join in, clap and even sing and dance in the aisles and enjoy world music!”. 

After a hugely successful fundraising concert in Lexden Church Hall in June, Quire is developing its links with Ghana ( where the Tendring Schools already have links.  Quire donated almost £1000 to the village of Kwahu-Tafo.  Quire is working with the tribal development chief of Kwahu-Tafo – former TV Director Humphrey Barclay who set up the charity Friends of Tafo.

Quire members will take part in a workshop visit from Larry Gordon, the famed leader of a USA World Music Group Northern Harmony who inspired Bill Tamblyn to research FASOLA. Larry’s interest ranges from FASOLA to Eastern Europe with many aspects of World music. If you don’t know what FASOLA is – just listen to the music from the film Cold Mountain.

Northern Harmony World Music Choir
Hailed for their “sheer agility, vitality and power” by the Washington Post, Northern
Harmony’s brilliant young singers stretch the normal boundaries of choral music with
their command of varied world ethnic singing styles: American shape-note singing and Appalachian harmonies; village songs from Caucasus Georgia and the Balkans; sacred and secular harmonies from Corsican and Occitan oral traditions; South African folksongs and dances; and contemporary works.

Audiences experience Quire’s exuberant performance as over 60 singers in four part harmony perform in languages from around the world including African: Zulu, Shona, Khosa; New Zealand : Maori, Hispanic, Jamaican, Dutch and more.

If you want to come along to Quire rehearsal

Quire’s first rehearsal of the new term is 7pm Thursday 11 Sept.   Quire meet at 7pm prompt every Thursday evening at Lion Walk Church Hall, Colchester – opposite Boots and adjacent to Costa Coffee in Lion Walk Shopping Centre. Arrive at 1845 for a 1900 start.   For more information visit www.quire.org


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