On Saturday 8 February, members of the Wayfarers Chorus attended the UK Choir Festival in Manchester. During the course of a very enjoyable day, following an entertaining and engaging warm-up, there were four workshops, each covering different aspects and styles of singing and learning. Starting with learning simple tricks to help improve our sight-reading and understanding of musical scales, we […]
» Read moreThe UK Choir Festival is once more coming to Manchester. In 2017, eight members of the chorus attended and all agreed that it was a good day. Take a look at their website for more information. Tickets have to be booked as a group, so can those who would like to go please inform either David Andrew or Ian Homewood. […]
» Read moreThe Wayfarers Chorus again took part in the Southport Music Festival, held this year at Greenbank High School on Friday 6 October. There were 3 entries in the Barbershop chorus class this year, North West Harmony, Just Voices (ladies) and Wayfarers. We chose to sing our three latest repertoire additions, one of which was receiving its first public airing. Unfortunately […]
» Read moreWayfarers Chorus were represented at the recent UK Choir Festival in Manchester, with 8 members making the early (Sunday) morning trip. It wasn’t quite a perfectly balanced octet but we did have all voice parts so were able to take part in the performances at the end of the day. This is the first year the festival has been held […]
» Read more9th July 2017 in Manchester After discussion at the practice session on Feb 28 we have registered an initial eight places for the UK Choir Festival in Manchester. Now that we have reserved our place as a chorus we can purchase more individual places for anybody else who would like to go. The festival takes place over two days and […]
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