Andover Chamber Choir

Description

Saturday 17^th December sees the return of a long-standing Andover tradition – the Christmas Carol Concert! Andover Chamber Choir (formerly known as The Harmonium Singers)  have presented a concert at St Mary’s Church each Christmas for over thirty years, until the Covid pandemic intervened! The choir returns, this year, for the first time since 2019. Proceeds have always been donated to a local charity and will be given this time to the Andover Foodbank.

The programme features music both well-known and unfamiliar. Carols such as ‘Gaudete!’ (made famous by Steeleye Span), ‘Gabriel’s Message’ and Handel’s ‘Joy to the World’ rub shoulders with Holst’s ‘Jesu, thou virgin born’ and ‘The Time draws near the Birth of Christ’, composed for the 50^th anniversary of The Harmonium Singers and here receiving its Covid-delayed premiere! Items will be interspersed with poems and with carols for the audience.

Tickets can be bought in advance from The Lights and from the Newbury Building Society or choir members. The admission price(£10 in advance, £12 on the door, under 16s free) includes interval refreshments. The concert takes place exactly a week before Christmas Eve and the day before the World Cup Final so there's no excuse to miss it!