Since the COVID restrictions were lifted, our choir has been enjoying a new season. New songs; new members; new excitement for what the future holds.

We have recently performed Choral Evensong at St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle which was very well received, and we have been invited to return. A Great Honour.

Our 2022 Christmas Concert was a tremendous success as usual – a complete sell out weeks in advance, with full houses every night. These facts were only outshone by £3188.00 being raised for local charities!

Our next concert is on 14th October at Holy Trinity Church where we are performing a mixture of Choral Classics and Music from the Movies.

We meet at the Powick Village Hall at 4.15pm Sundays and 7pm Thursdays, so why not come along for a trial run on Sunday 10th September at 4:15, with no pressure, to see for yourself?

Please let us know by replying to powickchoir@outlook.com if you would like to attend to ensure that we have music for you.

During the summer, when the Chapel choir is on school holidays, other choirs can apply to provide the music for services.

After a lengthy application and approval process which started back in April 2022, we were delighted to be accepted to perform.

A choir of 48 singers performed the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis composed by our own Tom Wells, responses by Charles Pavey and our anthem, I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, again composed by Tom along with the Psalm of the day and a hymn.

We took at least 50 family and friends to share this special event with us.

It was very well received by both the congregation and Chapel staff, and we have already been invited to return.

It was a magical day that we will remember for a very long time, despite the continual rain!

The Evening Canticles were written by Tom Wells along with the Anthem, I will Lift up mine eyes unto the Hills.

Here is a recording of an earlier performance.

Powick Community Choir would like to thank everyone who attended our series of Christmas concerts at Stanbrook Abbey.

The closing collection totalled £2,188 and this was split between our 2 nominated charities, Cruse Bereavement and Megan Baker House.

John Tinnion, Choir Chairman, presented cheques to representatives of both charities at a rehearsal on 5th February 2023.

The choir would like to thank all those who came to our Christmas concerts and donated to the retiring collections. The two charities we chose were Samaritans and SOBS (Survivors of bereavement by suicide) 

Representatives from the two charities attended on February 20th and were welcomed by Andy Pope, Chairman of the choir and presented with the cheques by Tom Wells, our musical director. 

Mr Roy Blundell, branch director of Worcester Samaritans emailed: 

"The monetary gift will be used to help us provide our services to a diverse range of people throughout the community.  We are incorporating all aspects of technology to reach as wide an audience as possible which includes contact via telephone, email, chat, and direct face-to-face contact.  We are also doing a lot of work within the prison system to provide listening services for prisoners along with a range of other means of supporting their rehabilitation and reintegration back into society once their sentences have been spent. 

Thank you so much to the members of the Powick Community Choir for such a generous gift, and for caring for those whom the world has so easily forgotten.” 

The cheque for SOBS was collected by Janine Downes, a representative from Bromsgrove SOBS......

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