A celebration of Advent and Christmas

"The singing and the music were beautiful, really lovely. There was appealing contrast and humour too..."

Essex Voices draws together some of the most accomplished amateur singers from Essex and the surrounding counties. Its origins go back nearly thirty years to four singers who met periodically on Friday evenings to sing madrigals for their own enjoyment. Over the intervening years the group has grown to number, at full strength, some twenty singers. They still meet, almost always on Friday evening, for our their enjoyment and tackle wide-ranging unaccompanied repertoire from the early Renaissance to the present day, by way of romantic part-songs and lighter jazz arrangements.

Occasionally they give public performances, often with a smaller group drawn from the larger one, singing one-a-part. These have included fund-raising recitals in north Essex and Norfolk churches, a Christmas concert for the Ongar Music Club, choral evensong at Great Waltham Church, a concert at Christ's College, Cambridge in aid of the local hospice and a concert of verse anthems with Chelys Consort of Viols.

They have kindly agreed to perform our Christmas concert this year with ticket takings being donated back to Colchester Early Music to fund promotion of future events.

Refreshments will be served after the concert, with donations to church funds

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