Louth Male Voice Choir

Lincolnshire Group NAC workshop/concert

Alan John — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:20:55 +0000

St James’s church, Louth will be the focus for up to 200 choristers on Saturday 25th September for a workshop and concert by choirs from the Lincolnshire Group of the National Association of Choirs.
The highlight of the day will be the world premier of a new choral work by Fred Goodwin by all the participating choirs. Fred was given the difficult task of writing a piece that can be performed by male, female and mixed choirs. He chose three Tennyson poems (get the Lincolnshire connection?) for his composition: the Sleep;
Fred will lead the workshop and conduct his composition in the concert which begins at 6.30pm. The concert will also feature massed male voice choirs conducted by the musical directors of Grimsby & Cleethorpes Orpheus, Louth and Scunthorpe MVCs and massed female voice choirs under the batons of the musical directors of the Ludensian and Pelham singers.

Concert Programme for 2010/11

Alan John — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:43:39 +0000

We are delighted to have been invited to sing at a wedding blessing and a wedding in July and August.
Our concert programme for the year ahead takes us to some new locations as well as back to old friends. Our next concert is as members of the Lincolnshire Group of the National Association of Choirs at 6.30pm on Saturday 25th September 2010 at St James’s Church, Louth.
Concerts start at 7.30pm unless marked differently.

Sunday 3rd October
“Last Night of the Proms” at the Embassy Centre, Skegness. Lincolnshire Brass head up the concert which is to be compered by BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s very own Howard Leader, with special guests -Louth Male Voice Choir and Billie Monro.
Tickets are available from the Embassy Centre or online at: www.embassytheatre.co.uk

Friday 8th October
Welholme United Reformed Church, Grimsby
in aid of Friends of Samaritans

Saturday 13th November
Not a choirconcert, but the 20th Young Musician competition we have organised for residents and students in East Lindsey. We are making the most of this anniversary and the finals/concert at 7.00pm on Saturday 13th November at Nichol Hill Methodist church in Louth will be a special occasion.

Friday 19th November
St Peter and St Paul, Burgh le Marsh

Friday 3rd December
St James’s Church, Grimsby
Grimsby Civic Society

Friday 4th March
Horncastle Theatre
in aid of Homestart

Friday 18th March
St Peter and St Paul, Tetney

Friday 1st April
Methodist Church, Sutton-on-Sea

Friday 13th May
St Peter’s, Cleethorpes
as guests of Adele Dixon

Friday 27th May
St Mary’s, Swineshead

Friday 10th June
St Mary’s, Ludborough

Saturday 25th June
St James’s, Louth
Joint concert with Reading Male Voice Choir

20th Young Musician Competition

Alan John — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:02:51 +0000

Our Young Musician competition takes place at the Methodist Church, Nichol Hill, Louth on Saturday 13 November, 2010.
Entry forms (to be completed and returned by 22 October) and further information are available from Malcolm Kerridge, 52 Wesgate, Louth, LN11 9YD. Tel: 01507 607371. mpkerridge@hotmail.com.
The premilinary rounds will take place in the morning and afternoon sessions, where every performer will receive a valuable and constructive adjudication. The first three from each of the sections – under 11, under 14, and under 18 years of age – will compete in a finals and concert performance at 7.00 pm.
Visitors are welcome at all of the sessions and the evening concert is strongly recommended to anyone with an interest in good music. In previous years the standard of performance of the senior contestants has been outstanding and we expect it will be the same this time.

Raise Funds for Your Good Cause

Alan John — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:20:17 +0000

We are experienced in working with fund raisers to help maximise the return from a choir concert.
We normally perform on Friday evenings but we will on occasion consider Saturdays. The location must accommodate a choir of 40 plus and a good audience. Soloist, quartet & compere included.
For further information about how LMVC can help you to achieve your fund-raising objectives outside Louth please contact our concert secretary:
Brian Wood 01507 610244 brian.wood@scng.co.uk

Young Musicians Competition, 2008

Alan John — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:30:53 +0000

The winner of the 2008 Young Musicians competiton was violinist Alice Spiers.Â Each year we are astounded at the standard of performance and this time there wereÂ exceptionallyÂ good performances inÂ all three age sections.Â All the finalists are pictured here with theÂ Chairman of East Lindsey District Council, Councillor Robert PalmerÂ who made the presentations.Â The finalists were:Â LMVC has organised the Young Musicians’s competitionÂ for pupils or residents in East Lindsey for almost 20 years.Â The 2009 competition will take place on Saturday 14th November at Nichol Hill Methodsit Church in Louth.Â Entries are required by the end of September from young people under the age of 18 on 31st August.Â
There are thee age groups: under 11; under 14; and under 18. A highly qualified panel of adjudicators gives each competitor a help and advice on how to progress with their music and a constructive assessment of their performance.Â Competitors have found the experience to be both stimulating and enjoyable.
Further information is available from our organiser: Patrick Morton on 01507 600308 or pands@themortonfamily.netÂ

Joint Concert with the Pelham Singers raises £2,300 for Downs Syndrome Association

Alan John — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:32:33 +0000

We were delighted to be the guests of the Pelham Singers at the concert they staged on 28 March 2008 at St James’s Church in Grimsby. There was a good audience and an enthusiastic and generous response to the fund raising appeal. Elaine Dix, musical director of the Pelham Singers, brought the concert to a rousing finish when she conducted the joint choirs in “Back to the ’60s”, a miscellany of popular songs arranged by Alan Simmons which starts with “There was a man in New Orleans…” and climaxes with “Do do ron ron”.

Another Successful Young Musician Competition in 2007

Alan John — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:21:54 +0000

The East Lindsey Young Musician of the Year Competition, sponsored and organised by Louth Male Voice Choir attracted, yet again, a high standard of competitors from all parts of the District. The nine finalists (3 in each of the junior, intermediate and senior sections) are pictured at Nichol Hill Methodist Church on Saturday 17 November. Picture thanks to Ian Holmes.
From left to right they are: Rowena Firth from Fotherby (violin); Mark Hurrell from Wragby, winner of the junior section (saxophone); Georgina Hastings from Tetney (clarinet); Rebekka Appleton from Grimoldby (voice); Emma Gorst from Louth (voice); Emma Brown from Louth (oboe); Keren Newlove from Louth (piano); Emma Barnaby from Louth, winner of the intermediate section and the young musician of the year (cello); and Emily Coughtrey-Wellsted from Skegness, winner of the senior section (flute).
Emily Coughtrey-Wellsted, the talented flautistfrom Skegness, is pictured here receiving her trophy from the chairman of East Lindsey District Council, Councillor Janet Harrison, and from Alan John, Chairman of Louth Male Voice Choir.
The adjudicators, Graham Burrell, musical director of LMVC, and Margaret Crossland, soprano soloist and music teacher from Lincoln, made the unusual but not unprecedented decision to award the Young Musician of the Year to the winner of the intermediate section, cellist Emma Barnaby, in recognition of the musicality of her performance.

All competitors received a constructive appraisal of their performances in the heats, which were held in the morning and afternoon sessions. However, it was the performances of the finalists in the evening competition/concert that determined the places. Inevitably there were some performances that improved and others that fell away in the finals, but, as Graham Burrell concluded: “Every one of the students who got through to perform in the finals is a winner.”

Alan John — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:01:07 +0000

Joyous 12th joint concert with Albatros

Alan John — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:01:50 +0000

The magnificent Catholic church in Old Pekela was the setting for the latest and 12th joint concert with Albatros on Saturday 28th April.
The large, knowledgeable and appreciative audience includedÂ the chairman of the National Association of Choirs who was on holiday in the area.

Most of the party from Louth had spent much of Friday in the unrivalled Keukenhof gardens. The weather for the whole weekend was unseasonably warm and bright. This formed the back-drop to a renewal of friendships and splendid parties fitted in around the concert.

The pieces sung by the combined choirsÂ were: Haec Dies, an arrangementÂ for two choirs by a Dutch composer, Jacobus Handl; and “I’ll stay with you ’til the morning” a vocal arrangement by Anton Stulp, musical director of the Albatros, of Mozart’s clarinet concerto.

Illustrated on the left is LMVC singing “Old Time Religion”. Below, the combined choirs are being introduced by the Albatros announcer.

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Alan John — Thu, 10 May 2007 18:58:36 +0000