Please see final details about our upcoming Christmas Concert below.

Note that we will be singing (as traditional) Twelve Days of Christmas at the end of the concert – please additionally bring along this score to our remaining rehearsals.

Many thanks for your attention,
Louise

Christmas Concert 2024 – Noel

Saturday December 21st, 7.30pm – All Saints Church, Wokingham, RG40 1TN

Tickets

singhealthy.co.uk/tickets (we are very close to selling out!)

Venue

Entrance to the church is via the glass door on The Cornerstone side. We will have the Lady Chapel and space behind the staging to store coats and bags. Please bear in mind we won’t have a separate backstage/lockable space – you may wish to arrive in (or partly in) concert dress or can use the toilets to change. During the evening, we will have access to the toilets in The Cornerstone as well as those in the church.

Parking

The church has a small car park in Norrey’s Avenue opposite The Cornerstone including spaces for audience wheelchair users. If this is otherwise full, car parks nearby are Rose Street, Easthampstead Road and Waitrose. For those with mobility issues, there is also limited space in front of The Cornerstone for drop off.

Timings

Please arrive from 3.45pm for a 4pm rehearsal.

• 4–c.6pm choir rehearsal:
  • 4pm both choirs – seating
  • c.4.10pm Wokingham only
  • c.4.50pm both choirs
  • c.5.35pm Bracknell only
• 7pm doors open
• 7.30pm concert start – please be seated c.7.25
• (finish around 9.15/30)

Concert dress

All black plus red ties/scarves (full length or opaque tights). Small handbags and water bottles are fine on stage.

Programme:

Please bring your music in your black folders in the following order.
*One exception – we will not use folders for Wokingham’s ‘Fantasia on Christmas Carols’ booklets.

• BOTH & organ: Angels from the Realms (verses 1, 2 & 5)
• WOKINGHAM & organ: Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sung
• [Cello & piano: Ave Maria]
• WOKINGHAM: Noel
• BOTH & organ: Gabriel’s Message
• [Cello & piano: Sing, Lullaby]
• WOKINGHAM & organ, cello: Fantasia on Christmas Carols*
• [charity speaker]
• BOTH W/AUDIENCE & cello: My Guardian Angel

– INTERVAL –

• BOTH W/AUDIENCE & organ, perc: Hark the Herald
• CLASP only
  • [Frosty the snowman]
  • [Jingle Bell Rock]
  • [Rocking Around the Christmas Tree]
• BRACKNELL & piano, perc
  • Wonderful Christmas Time
  • Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy
  • Dome of St Pauls
• BOTH & piano, perc
  • Have yourself a merry little Christmas
  • Riu Riu Chiu
  • Jingle Bells
• TUTTI: Twelve Days of Christmas