Year: 2025

Click here to read our newsletter, and see how to apply to sing in the December 2025 Concert.

Here is a copy of our Spring Newsletter with the dates and details of our coming season. Look out for the Summer Newsletter which comes out in late July with more details about joining us for rehearsals.

The AGM will be held on Wednesday 23 April, 2025 at St. John’s Methodist Church, Allestree. A social with coffee & biscuits will start at 7.00, followed by the meeting at 7.30.

At our December 2024 concert you we raised an amazing £4000! This is even more than the £3500 we raised in 2023. The 2024 Beneficiaries for this money are the Same Day Urgent Care Centre and The Children’s Hospital.

The annual fundraising concert, held once again at St. Alkmund’s Church, was another great success. Attended by the Right Worshipful the Mayor of the City of Derby (Ged Potter) and with almost 300 tickets sold, the 60-strong choir sang a selection of popular Christmas and non-Christmas music accompanied by Kevin Smith on Piano and Stephen Dickinson on Percussion. Richard Moulder compered the programme with panache, and Jill Matthews told us about the selected beneficiaries. Watch this space for an announcement of how much we raised. In the meantime, you can listen to what we sang…

• Gloria – Vivaldi
• Angel’s Carol – Rutter
• A London Medley – Malone
• Thank you for the music – Abba
• The little road to Bethlehem – Head
• Carol of the bells – Leontovitch
• Jingle Bell Rock – arr. Chinn
• Hallelujah – Cohen
• Anthem – arr. Purifoy
• Mamma Mia – Abba
• Hark the Herald Angels – Descant
• Bethlehem – Schonberg
• It’s beginning to look like Christmas – arr. Hayes