Thanet Festival Choir

 

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 ‘Dido and Aeneas’ now on sale

Our Spring concert will be Dido and Aeneas, Purcell’s only true opera, and his only all-sung dramatic work. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid and recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas and her despair when he abandons her.  It features the famous aria ‘When I […]

Rehearsals start again soon

Spring session rehearsals start again on Wednesday 14th January. We are all looking forward to singing again after the long Christmas break, and will be working on Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, a work which is new to most of us. If you’d like to come and ‘give it a go’ join us at St Peters […]

Christmas is coming …

Preparations are now well underway for our Christmas programme. Join us at St George’s Church Ramsgate, 5.00pm on 16th December, and at All Saints West Stourmouth, 17th December at 7.30pm where we’ll be singing choruses from Messiah and Creation plus motets and carols. We’ll also be joining the residents at Maurice House and St Michaels residential homes […]

What's it like to sing in a choir?

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Upcoming concerts