Thanet Festival Choir

 

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The Thanet Festival Choir (TFC) is a mixed choral group (male and female voices) of around 75 amateur singers. Based in the Isle of Thanet, East Kent, we regularly perform concerts to bring our music to the wider community. Although we do perform the occasional lighter concert, which might be Opera Choruses, Gilbert and Sullivan or Songs from the Shows, we tend to stick to traditional Choral Music (Messiah, Creation and Fauré Requiem amongst many others).

Would you like to sing with the Choir?

 

We are an adult choir, but we welcome young people over the age of 16 provided that they are accompanied at rehearsals by a parent/guardian or other appropriate adult. Our membership is drawn from a wide range of musical abilities. Some of us have many years experience of singing in choirs, whereas others are relatively new to the joys and challenges of choral singing.

What can you expect?

You will receive a warm welcome. We have a ‘buddying’ scheme so that prospective new members are paired with experienced singers who can guide and support them through their first few rehearsals.  You’ll be introduced to other members of your voice section and to the Music Director, and given music and basic information about the Choir.

Each rehearsal starts at 7.45pm and begins with a ‘warm up’ to get the vocal chords working. We then rehearse some of the music programmed for our next concert, usually in some detail to start with and then we progress to ‘sing-throughs’ as the notes and words become more familiar. There’s a 10 minute break at around 8.30pm, and we usually finish at around 9.20pm.

If you would like to come and join us then  click here to find out more, or email thanetfestivalchoir@gmail.com

Unfortunately, due to an ongoing technical issue, some of the contact links on this page are not working at present. Please accept our apologies.

If you wish to contact us email thanetfestivalchoir@gmail.com 

 

News

Tickets for our Summer Concert are now on sale

Tickets for our summer concert are now available, price £12 in advance and £14 on the door, Students and Children £5, and are now on sale. Contact the Ticket Secretary on 01304 620560 or to purchase online visit  https://thanet-festival-choir.sumupstore.com

An excellent way to spend a Saturday

We had a wonderful time singing the choruses from Haydn’s Creation on Saturday. It really is amazing what can be achieved in just a few hours of rehearsal. It was lovely to welcome so many guests, and especially our trio of young soloists – Nicole, Simon and Theo. It’s a reluctant ‘goodbye’ to Creation for the time […]

Come and Sing Choruses from Haydn’s ‘Creation’

Join us at Holy Trinity Church Broadstairs on Saturday 10th May for a ‘Come and Sing’ day focussing on the choruses from Haydn’s magnificent oratorio Creation.  The cost is £25 for the day, which includes music (we will be working from printed booklets rather than music scores as there are so many different editions) plus […]

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