DUMFRIES MALE VOICE CHOIR BEGIN THEIR SEASON WITH A BANG
Their first rehearsal is on Wednesday the 12th of August. (the glorious 12th...unless you are a Grouse!) As usual, the weekly rehearsals take place on Wednesday evenings in St.Teresa's Church Hall. 7.30pm.
Practices are taken by our conductor Rory Robson and our accompanist Declan McGarva. This is where the fun (and work) starts: Learning new music and polishing up old favourites. Also, as usual, we are looking for new recruits. Any men who love singing in the car, the bath, the shower just come and join in the fun of it all. Make new friends along the way. No auditions are required. Please come along. You will be made most welcome.
NOW FOR THE BANG!
The choir's first concert of the season takes place on Thursday 20th of August in St.Teresa's Church when they will be joined by CASTLEFORD MALE VOICE CHOIR from Yorkshire who are on tour in what is their Centenary year. As part of their celebrations the tour takes in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Northern England. We are both pleased and proud that they have chosen us to be part of that celebration. Castleford choir is led by their conductor, Andris Ugulis who has been with them for over ten years. Their accompanist is Mandy Jones.
The concert will include performances by the individual choirs and items by both jointly.
A lively and entertaining evening is promised. Tickets are available at the door on the night of the concert. Both choirs will be looking forward to seeing you there.
The Choir get into the Christmas Spirit whilst supporting the charities of Dumfries Loreburn Shopping Centre. This is the third year that we have enjoyed ourselves for a couple of hours singing, for the boys and girls, the mums and dads and the grannies and the grandads.
Its a joy to see people stopping to listen and take time out of their busy shopping day to hear a Christmas Carol, a jolly Christmas song or even one of the choir's favourites.
Some months ago Border TV visited our weekly practice and filmed parts of it. It is now available to view in an episode of the Border Life TV Programme on ITVX unfortunately to view it you need to have ITVX set up with a border tv area postcode to view it.
Use this link https://www.itv.com/watch/news/catch-up-on-border-life/3bhytvf
Join Us
We warmly welcome fresh faces, so why not come join us. Young or old, there is room for all. You don’t have to be an experienced singer or have sung in a choir before.
So what else is worrying you?
You don’t read music? Well neither do most of the choir.
You are not a really good singer? You don’t need to be; enjoying music, singing and performing is enough, although you will be encouraged to learn your section part, i.e. bass, baritone, 1st or 2nd tenor. Section parts are readily available for members either via our website or on CD to assist learning. Read More
Music
The Choir has built up a library of hundreds of pieces of music over the past 60 years, ranging from traditional to more modern, popular pieces. Our Conductor aims to choose programmes which are a blend of traditional and modern, old and new, and is always on the lookout for new material - be it a new arrangement of an old favourite or a completely new song. The Choir have several songs which can be sung without words or music or at the drop of a hat, as our conductor likes to say. So if you are in Dumfries be careful not to drop your hat, or someone may start singing at you.
