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Sing Something, Simple
Sing Something, Simple What was the first song you remember singing with other people? Something at your infants’ school? Or primary school? Hymns at morning assembly as required by the 1944 Education Act? (The assembly was required, not the hymns). Or something more folky? The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond? Hearts of Oak? The Skye
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What secrets does a door hide?
Ancient church doors were once covered in hide, stretched and nailed in place to protect the wood and painted bright red. There is even a myth that the hides were the skins of Vikings, put there to warn off would-be raiders! I was reading the other day about the ancient door at St Andrew &
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Artemis Too
April, 2026, and Artemis II takes humans further into space than any other lunar mission in history, triggering not only memories of Jonathan King’s 1965 hit, Everyone’s Gone to the Moon,which filled the Kodak Super-8 pre-processing darkroom in Hemel Hempstead on a regular basis in the summer of 1969, but also the need to rehearse Ola
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We’re open – book now!
We’ve opened the Box Office for our concert on Saturday 6th June. Find the concert on our home page or under the Concerts tab and you will see a button to take you to booking information. Rehearsals are going well and we look forward to welcoming you in a few weeks from now. Our concerts
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William Byrd
Since Chanctonbury Chorus is all about singing, I thought we’d start our new blog with William Byrd’s encouragement to all people to learn to sing.
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Welcome to our new website
You may notice that our website looks a little bit different. We’ve rebuilt the site from scratch and given it a whole new look which should work better on a wide range of modern devices. It should be a bit faster too, and it’s easier for us to keep it up to date. We hope