2025

We've had a good year, although with fewer members we're a very different group to how we were pre-Covid. But its nice being small and informal - very friendly.

   

But though there are fewer of us, we still take our singing seriously. During the year we've worked on Lay All Your Love on Me (Abba) and Make You Feel My Love, among others.

   

And at Christmas we were invited to give a carol concert at the Pendennis Nursing Home in Paignton. It was great fun - we did a mix of performing in four-part harmony (have a listen to the clip) and singing along with the residents. And Kea did a wonderful solo stint, including Walking in the Air and her very funny I Want To Sing In the Opera. 

   

We wound up with a rousing singalong of The Twelve Days of Christmas. 

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2024

We had another good year, with several new members joining us - reinforcing the sections to round out the sound. We ended the year with a Carol Concert at Hope Church in Dawlish, and a bitter-sweet goodbye to Mirella, who is going home to Bosnia and her family - we wish her every good fortune in her new life.

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2023

We started the year with several people poorly, but we had a visit from one of our original members, Fiona - she was a lead, back in the day. So we sang some songs and ate some cake, and had a nice time. 

  

During the year we got stuck into some of our favourite songs - In My Room, Feel My Love and Best Day of My Life - and we made a good start on our new song, Dance With Me Tonight - Olly Murs.

  

We also learned a 'Tag'. This is a couple of lines from a song, and singing them is a long tradition in Barber Shop singing - they even have Tag competitions. Being short it's very quick to learn them - which has to be good, right?

  

Even though we're quite reduced in numbers, we're still having a great crack at these songs, and we sounded pretty good. With Helen and Mirela both over their colds, and Denise back on her feet after her accident, plus Kea who can sing any harmony, we have all the sections in action. 

  

And it's really nice to be able to be so informal, to chat, to all be together in a way that wasn't always possible when we were a much larger group. A couple of times during the year we met at Chris's when the school was closed, in her very cosy sitting room with the dogs keeping us company. 

  

We wound up the year in traditional style - on12th December we performed at All Saints Church Babbacombe Christmas Carol Concert. We sang Silent Night, Gaudete, the Coventry Carol, and finished with a roof-raising version of Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Just two weeks before the concert we were joined by Fiona (Kea's mum) who provided much needed support, helping to balance the four sections.

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