The Easingwold Singers

This year, 2023, the choir celebrates its 120th anniversary. Quite something for a community choir and we are very proud of this achievement. By popular request, our Spring Concert will feature Faure’s Requiem, and we are delighted that Jonty Ward, Bass Songman at York Minster has agreed to join us once again as our Bass Baritone soloist. Jonty was a soloist last year when the choir presented Beethoven’s Mass in C at St Oswald’s Church Sowerby in May.

Rehearsals are progressing well and this promises to be another memorable concert adding different opera choruses to the repertoire of The Easingwold Singers as well as revisiting Faure. All in all, a varied programme of music. The date is Saturday 20 May and the venue is to be St John the Baptist & All Saints Church, Easingwold. It was felt appropriate to hold the anniversary concert in Easingwold as this is where the choir was founded although we do have many members from Thirsk, Sowerby and the surrounding villages. New singers always welcome by the way.

Please see advert providing more details of the concert and we will update the website with further information shortly.

Looking back to our Christmas Concert December 2022 : “12 Days of Christmas” – Bob Chilcott and “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” – Ralph Vaughan Williams; what a treat and success that afternoon was. We can only thank Ed for putting it all together, our soloist and friend of the Choir, John Dunford with his wonderful voice and sense of fun, together with Matthew Atherton who played the organ and piano so magnificently. We had our largest audience ever, who were all in good voice, and excellent feedback. The “12 Days of Christmas” was such fun to sing and I am sure anybody who was there on the day, either in the choir or the audience, will retain fond memories of “The Partridge in a Pear” which surprisingly to all, kept putting in an appearance during Matthew’s organ solo. How we top this for our Christmas concert next year remains to be seen but I am sure with Ed’s ingenuity we will rise to the occasion once again.

Rather than having lots of smaller prizes for our

Charity Raffle on concert day, we decided to have two hampers with luxury items donatedbymembers of the choir with all the proceeds donated to the Easingwold District Community Care Foodbank. This was a good move and greatly appreciated by the recipients of the gift. Furthermore one of the winners of the hampers very generously donated his prize to the Thirsk Foodbank and the second hamper went to a very worthy winner too so we were delighted with the outcome.

Registered Charity No 1062232

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