OUT & ABOUT

In addition to its regular duties in the Cathedral, the choir has sung services and concerts in a variety of locations, within and beyond the Diocese.

We have often sung Advent and Candlemas services in the village church at Hartlip, and the Christmas carol service at St Faith’s, Maidstone, and are often booked to sing at weddings in various churches.

We had the honour of singing at the Memorial Service for Dr David Fussey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich and a founder-member of this choir, at St Nicholas, Southfleet, in February 2000.

We feel very privileged to have been allowed to sing Anglican Evensong in Aachen [Roman Catholic] Cathedral in Germany, and in the [Episcopal] National Cathedral in Washington DC.

AWAY-DAYS & SHORT BREAKS

In January 1997 we sang Evensong in the Chapel of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where one of our former members was Organ Scholar at the time.

Later the same year we spent a weekend in Würselen, Germany, where we sang Bach’s St John Passion (with our own chamber orchestra and soloists). The Youth Choir based at the local grammar school there (directed by one of our German members) took the part of the “congregation” and joined us for the Chorales. This exercise was repeated in March 2007.

In 1998 we spent a weekend in Bristol, where we sang in St Mary Redcliffe and the Chapel of St Monica’s Home.

TOURS

We have spent three separate weeks in residence at Exeter Cathedral while their own choir was on holiday: in August 1996, April 1999 and most recently in April 2006.

Our first major foreign tour was in October 1998, when we spent ten days singing in the Pacific Northwest and on the East Coast of the United States. We began in Seattle [Washington State], then moved southwards to Tacoma and Olympia. Mid-week we flew back east to Washington DC, then sang in Richmond [Virginia] and finished in Salisbury [Maryland]. (Click to read the story of this tour. USA Tour 1998)

In August 2000 we spent a long weekend singing in churches in and around Aachen, including Evensong and a Sunday morning Mass in the Cathedral.

We returned to the United States in October 2002, when we sang in St Philip’s Cathedral in Atlanta, Georgia; three parishes scattered across North Carolina (Rocky Mount, Winston-Salem and Blowing Rock) and finished with a weekend in Charleston, South Carolina.

Our third US tour took place during the Easter vacation in April 2005. We were based with our friends at the First United Methodist Church in Rochester, New Hampshire (who spent a week singing with us in Rochester UK in April 2004), and we sang in the Episcopal churches of Christ Church Exeter, All Saints Peterborough, St Paul’s Concord and the Chapel of St Paul’s School in Concord, the Congregational Church in Plymouth (all in NH) and in the Cathedral in Portland, Maine. To read the story of this tour, click here: USA Tour 2005.

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