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The Stuart Singers

Based in Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire, we give over a dozen concerts a year, raising money for local charities and deserving causes. Now 66 strong, we have a wide and constantly changing repertoire which spans spirituals, theatre, sacred and secular, classical and modern.

Fundraising
In our 17 years, we have helped raise over £150,000 for charity - either through our own concerts, or through singing at events organised by the charities themselves. We sing throughout Gloucestershire and further afield - sometimes abroad.

Interested in joining us?
We are always on the look out for enthusiastic singers or, if you'd rather do something behind the scenes, supporters. More details here...

Alternatively, Email Sheila Palmer or call her on 01453 731968

Making Music


The Stuart Singers are members of Making Music


Press and Publicity Contact
If you need to find out more about the Stuart Singers, email Bill Evans.

Our new CD is out!
Our new CD, with many more of our favourite numbers, including the ever popular Bottle Lament, is now available. See here for more.

Our next concert
will be at Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton
at 7:30 pm on Saturday 5 September 2009. For
tickets ring Marjorie Russell on 01453 886282
 
 
Tracy Lodge & MD Gerry Palmer
Hope for Tomorrow's Tracy Lodge
and MD Gerry Palmer

Music of the Night at hit!
Our early June concerts have become a tradition in Minchinhampton, eagerly supported by enthusiastic audiences and 2009's pair of Music of the Night shows proved no exception. MD Gerry Palmer showed his usual skill at picking diverse numbers, which ranged from the Eric Clapton's moving Tears In Heaven and the spoof The Song That Goes Like This from the musical Spamalot! to Bruckner's glorious a cappella Locus Iste. There was also room in the programme for old favourites like Deep Purple and I Believe.

The men's rendition of Women! Women! Women! was treated with appropriate disdain by the choir's ladies, who responded with a beautiful interpretation of the classic Misty. As always, our aim is to raise as much as we can for local good causes and these concerts saw local charities Hope for Tomorrow and LINC receive cheques and retiring Minchinhampton School head teacher Rod Harris, a long time friend of the choir, receive a cheque for their piano project.

Celia Carter
Celia Carter receivs the cheque
on behalf of Hop, Skip & Jump
Sell Out sees £150,000 reached!
Sold out Friday and near-sell out Saturday concerts in December saw MD Gerry Palmer confirm that we had just exceeded the grand total of £150,000 raised for local good causes since he and Sheila founded the Stuart Singers in 1992. These concerts saw another four local organisations benefit: Hop, Skip & Jump Cotswold, Gloucestershire Chest Fund, Minchinhampton Centre for the Elderly and Minchinhampton Cricket Club. Once again the programme was highly varied but still featured several festive numbers.

Perhaps the hit of the night was The making of a Choir, penned by our accompanist Barrie Cooper, in which we attempted to explain how a choir works, involving plenty of vocal mayhem! As a foretaste of the community singing event in Minchinhampton on 1 February, we also sang two numbers from another of Barrie's compositions, the Cantata The Fisherman of Galilee, whilst well established favourites like Kumbaya and Battle Hymn of the Republic vied with many new numbers including competing versions of Santa Baby from different groups of ladies! A great pair of concerts.

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