THE INAUGURAL PERFORMANCE OF “THE MEADOW SINGERS”

This Concert replaces the Annual All Saints' Winter Lecture for 2025.

Date and time: 7.30pm on 23rd November 2024

Venue: All Saints’ Church, Upper Clatford, SP11 7HB.

The Programme

This includes a selection of much loved sacred choral music with works by JS Bach, John Rutter, John Tavener, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Peter Warlock, Anton Bruckner and Edward Elgar. On a lighter note, the Choir will perform Calvin Carter’s “Good Night Sweetheart” as well as Jo’s own arrangement of “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”. Natalie Montakhab, a professional opera singer, will make a guest performance.

The Meadow Singers

The first performance by this Chamber Choral Group will be directed by Jo Fry who lives in Upper Clatford. Jo, a choral scholar at St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh, founded the chamber choir ‘VOX' while reading music at Edinburgh University and conducted them for a decade. After graduating, Jo worked in the classical recording industry as a producer at Decca records where artists included Vladimir Ashkenazy and Alfred Brendel. He now works for the renowned arts management company, Askonas Holt, managing several world class musicians including Michael Tilson Thomas and Marin Alsop. He has composed numerous choral and orchestral works and short film scores, many of which have been performed and recorded.

Charities supported

The money raised will be distributed between All Saints’ Church Fabric Fund for new path lighting and ABCD Bethlehem, a charity improving the lives of children with disabilities across Palestine regardless of faith, race or gender (https://www.abcdbethlehem.org/).

Tickets

Tickets cost £10.00 for adults and £5 for 16 or under.

If you would like to buy tickets, please click here for the booking form which will bring up the application form. Please complete the booking process and pay online or by cheque as requested.

Tickets can also be purchased at the Clatford Shop, Abbotts Ann Shop and Greenfield Farm Shop.

More Information

If you have any questions, please contact Nicki Eyre (07909 902 308) or Charles Eyre (07730 304 290).

Sponsorship - generously supported by Knight Frank

Financial support for upgrading All Saints’ Heating and Lighting from: Equitix and Cowdown Renewables Ltd, Hampshire and Islands Historic Churches Trust, The Garfield Weston Foundation, The Benefact Trust, Hampshire County Council, Test Valley Borough Council, Upper Clatford May Fayre

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