SINGERS from across Frome will be taking part in a very special online Christmas Carol Celebration this month.
The Frome Good Afternoon Choir was started four years ago by music-man Grenville Jones. This is the 11th Good Afternoon Choir in the South West and following lockdown, Grenville launched a regular Wednesday mid-day online choir rehearsal, shared with Ben England and Matt Finch – conductors of his other Good Afternoon Choir across the region.
They say, “On Wednesday December 23rd, we will be broadcasting online a very special Christmas Carol Celebration, which anyone can access on YouTube. The online choir from across England and with members from afar afield as Australia, America and Canada, will be joining in and there will be carols for everyone with on screen words, as well as a special performance by the talented Finch Family.”
Matt Finch is best known in Bath as MD to the Bath Light Operatic Group and also leads the Frome Good Afternoon Choir. Earlier this year, together with his wife Bella and children Jess (19) and Oli (17) they performed together as a quartet on one of Matt’s Wednesday Good Afternoon Choir rehearsals.
Grenville said, “We had a fantastic response to the performance of the brilliant Finch Family and they will be one of our special groups taking part in the online Christmas Celebration on Wednesday December 23rd.
“The good thing is that because it is on YouTube, anyone can watch it over the Christmas period and have their own Christmas Carol Celebration in their own homes.”
You can watch the online carol concert by visiting YouTube and searching for GoodAfternoonChoir/online. A new online rehearsal season will start in January with Grenville, Matt and Ben. For full details see www.goodafternoonchoir.org/online.html.
