Stuart Singers
 
   
     

 
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Click here to listen to the song Kumbaya         

Click here to listen to the song The Lost Chord

These tracks are from our
latest CD. More details here
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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 65 strong, we have a wide and constantly changing repertoire which spans spirituals, theatre, sacred and secular, classical and modern.

Fundraising
In our 18 years, we have helped raise over £170,000 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.

More news
Visit the News page for older stories from the Stuart Singers.

Our next concerts
will be at Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham
on Friday 23 March at 7:30 pm - details here.
For tickets please ring Marjorie Russell on
01453 886282.
 


Green bottles
The green bottles return!
Breaking News...
Nearly a record! Audiences for our 2011 Christmas concerts were just two tickets short of being a new record turn out. In the festive programme, traditional Christmas numbers such as Go Tell it on the Mountain, Sing a Joyful Song of Christmas and Christmas Joy were paired with the powerful Three Kings Came and the more jaundiced Ding, Dong, Ringing at the Bell, about the "Carollers from Hell!", whilst Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend reminded the men that it was the season for giving!

Much as we love performing, our primary focus is raising money to give away and we were delighted to see three very worthy causes receive cheques from our MD, Gerry Palmer: Cirencester Opportunity Group, Mindsong and RoboCap.

In the second half the men's enthusiastic performance of Lydia, the Tattooed Lady raised a well-deserved laugh but the highlight for many of this year's December concerts was our closing number, a new arrangement by our accompanist Barrie Cooper. His Bottle Lament, a sideswipe at the familiar counting song Ten Green Bottles has been a hit wherever we have sung it, so we had high hopes of his new Breaking News!, in which Barrie again subjected much loved melodies ranging from Danny Boy to Edelweiss, and the William Tell Overture to Nimrod to the "Bottles" treatment. The audience's foot stomping and clapping which accompanied the familiar Proms Hornpipe told its own story: we had another hit on our hands!

Minchihampton Church
Minchinhampton Church
Let Us All Sing!
Despite this summer's concerts' title, there was no "audience participation" number in the programme. Rather, it was our by now familiar eclectic mix of old and new, sacred and secular, show, pop, gospel and serious. An added feature this time around was the inclusion of three a capella numbers: some may remember us singing the serene Prayer of King Henry VI ten or more years ago, but both the heartfelt Where you there? and the perky arrangement of Tea for Two were new.

The title of the concerts came from our rousing opening number, which blew away a few cobwebs, as did our penultimate piece Born in Song. In between them, amongst our new repertoire we spent some time In these delightful pleasant Groves, enjoyed Cole Porter's In the Still of the Night and the ladies told us that He ain't heavy, He's my Brother.

As always, we look forward to giving away money which we've collected at previous concerts and this June's recipients were the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (to support therapy for sufferers) and two very local good causes: Minchinhampton Surgery Trust and Minchinhampton Rugby Club, who are buying some land for a permanent home.

 
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