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Last Saturday 9th July the choir raised up its voice and joined with around 1000 other singers from the South West at the Harbourside, Bristol for the Big Sing and gained more than £3500 in sponsorship for the charity Wateraid. The choir has spent all summer term learning the seven songs including a Georgian lament,… Read more »

At our recent end of term concert at the Baptist Centre in Wellington, Blackdown Community Choir raised over £200 for “Link Community Development” which works to improve the quality of education in Africa. The large audience was entertained to songs from around the globe including Africa, and Israel, a Maori song from New Zealand, as… Read more »

Come and hear the choir perform a short free concert of our latest songs at the Baptist Centre next Thursday. We will be singing pop classics Fields of Gold and Sloop John B as well as songs from Africa, New Zealand and Israel. Donations are requested for Link Community Development which works to improve the… Read more »

The Blackdown Community Choir “raised the rafters” at their autumn concert at the Baptist Centre in December where family and friends were entertained by a gorgeous mixture of global songs and festive carols. As well as enjoying the wonderful harmonies, the audience gave generously to hear the choir `Sing for Water` and raised over £160… Read more »

After a successful song workshop in September during Wellington Festival Fortnight, Wellington’s original community choir has been re-launched at the Baptist Centre with 45 people signed up for a new term of unaccompanied harmony singing. Following the retirement in June of the previous musical director Gabrielle Newman-Turner, who started the choir 8 years ago, a… Read more »