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Summer Concert
Fakenham Parish Church
Saturday 16 June 2012
7.30pm
Tickets £10 (under 18 free)
from 01328 830639
or on the door
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Welcome
Welcome to the website of the Fakenham Choral Society.
We are a community choir based in Fakenham - a living, working, energetic market town in North Norfolk.
We welcome anyone of any age who loves to sing. Our aim is to bring the pleasure of live, large-scale choral music-making
to a wide public. And, of course, to have a wonderful time while we’re doing that.
The choir has 100 members from the town and surrounding villages and we meet to rehearse every Tuesday
evening, from September to June, at the Salvation Army Hall, Oak Street, Fakenham, from 7.30pm to 9.15pm.
We give a minimum of three concerts a year, usually at Fakenham Parish Church, but we have also sung at
churches in Blakeney, Cley, Wells-next-the-Sea and King’s Lynn. The choir’s repertoire embraces both sacred and
secular music, and we have performed with a succession of distinguished soloists and orchestras.
The choir was founded in 1973 and has moved into a new era with the appointment of Chris Brown as its
seventh musical director. Chris took over in January 2011, following the departure of Janet Kelsey, who led the choir with
great expertise and flair for six years. Chris, at 27 by far the youngest musical director to be appointed by the society,
enjoyed a stunningly successful debut at the choir's spring concert in March 2011.
Recent concert highlights have included Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, John Rutter's Requiem and the Vivaldi Gloria, the Verdi Requiem, Brahm's German Requiem, Haydn's Nelson Mass, Bach's Magnificat,
Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Britten's Saint Nicolas, Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, an Opera Gala and Songs from the Musicals.
The choral society has in recent years attracted funding from the National Lottery, from its own active
association of Friends and from a network of corporate sponsors pleased to be associated with a successful local
enterprise.
The Tuesday evening rehearsals are challenging, invigorating, informative and, most of all, great fun. The choir is
very lucky to have gained the services of Adrian Richards, who took over as the choir's rehearsal accompanist in January 2011.
Fakenham Choral Society prides itself on providing a warm welcome to all new members so, if you are
interested in joining the choir, please contact Roger Burbidge, FCS secretary, on 01328 851848, or contact us via
this website. We have a waiting list at the moment so you may have to wait a term or two to join - unless, that is,
you're a tenor!
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