- Concert Prep And Special Visits!
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Date Posted: Mon, 21 Jul 2025
Concert Prep And Special Visits!
Wow, how fast is this year flying by?!
We've been keeping ourselves very busy here at More Harmony HQ, getting our repertoire fully polished ahead of our fifteenth birthday concert in September - not to mention all of the planning we've been doing for that event!
We're delighted to have some great guests already on the lineup for the big night. Our fellow Wadebridge-based women's choir, In Tune will be joining us to sing some songs and we'll also be welcoming the children from St Wenn School Choir. Wadebridge Town Band will be playing a few tunes and there are lots of other musical guests in the pipeline. It promises to be a fantastic evening of entertainment, so please do keep Saturday September 20th free - and keep your eyes peeled, because tickets should be on sale by the end of this week!
Every great concert needs a fantastic host and we're overjoyed to have secured someone fabulous for our event. We'll be announcing the big name later this week, so keep watch on our socials. For now, all we'll say is it's someone whose voice may be familiar to anyone who listens to BBC Radio Cornwall...
Outside of concert prep, we've been thrilled to welcome a new singer to our lead section. Gill is full of enthusiasm and has fitted into our chorus family like she was always there! Gill received her membership certificate on a rather special night, too.
Whilst More Harmony are proud to view ourselves as an independent choir, we are equally proud to be members of the Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers ("LABBS" for short!). More Harmony choose our own repertoire (and decide how we sing it!), pick costume and run our choir ourselves, but our membership of LABBS means we have access to guidance & support, education & coaching, funding and performance opportunities. We've certainly made the most of our membership over the years and so it was a joy to welcome former LABBS Chair, Sue Ransom to our most recent rehearsal. Many of us on the chorus committee have had invaluable advice from Sue over the years, so to meet her in person and have her sing with us for an evening was really lovely, Plus, it meant she could officially welcome Gill to the chorus and to LABBS (we pay to enroll all of our singers with LABBS, so they can experience the many benefits that membership brings). We'd like to thank Sue for visiting us all the way from Lancashire - please come back any time!
Following her visit, we had some fantastic feedback from Sue, including praise for the incredibly welcoming, friendly atmosphere we have at rehearsals. The welcome we give to new singers is something we're very proud of and it was wonderful to have it recognised.
Speaking of new singers, We are open to new members, so if you're a woman aged 16+, do feel free to drop us a line or simply turn up to Wadebridge Ambulance Hall on a Thursday night (doors open at 7pm, rehearsal begins at 7:15pm!). We're open to all voices, but we're especially looking for tenors - the highest voices in our choir. Unlike in a traditional choir, where sopranos often belt out the tune, our tenor section sings a high harmony (although they do get the tune now and then!). For that reason, we are especially keen to find women with softer tones. We describe singing tenor as "the dusting of icing sugar on top of the cake!" So, if you're someone who can hit higher notes and you think you can nail the light, sweet tone needed, we'd love to welcome you to a rehearsal! You could be just what we're looking for.
As always however, whatever your vocal range or level of experience, if you love to sing, we've got a part for you. Why not come along and give a cappella a try?!
- Sing-Outs And Celebrations!
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Date Posted: Wed, 18 Jun 2025
sing-outs and celebrations!
Summer season is well and truly swinging into high gear! More Harmony have been busy with rehearsals, sing-outs and some seriously big plans....
We were recently delighted to join Wadebridge Male Voice Choir, along with soloist Bo Gregson, to perform in a concert at the beautiful St Petroc's Church in Bodmin. This is one of our favourite places to sing and we loved being there to celebrate the many forms of music happening in our part of the world. Music has an incredib
le power to bring people together and this event was certainly no exception! From modern musical theatre pieces and traditional choral songs, to classic pop and beautiful ballads, there was something for everyone to enjoy. We'd like to say a big thank you to Wadebridge Male Voice Choir for inviting us!
We were back in action on Sunday 15th June, performing for the residents of The White House Care Home in Bodmin. There's something really special about these kind of performances and we're so grateful to the staff for their enthusiasm and kindness. We enjoyed food and wine afterwards and had the chance to chat to the residents and share our love for what we do. The visit was made even more poignant for us by knowing that our performance had been specifically requested by the residents, following our Christmas visit, last year! We've already been asked if we'll go and entertain everyone again this festive season, so that's something we'll definitely look forward to. It's never too early to get those Christmas bookings in, believe it or not! Music is truly the cherry on the cake of any celebration and we love being a part of people's events.
Speaking of celebrations...
More Harmony will be celebrating its 15th birthday in September of this year! Our fabulous choir turned 10 in 2020 and our plans for a celebratory concert were curtailed thanks to the small issue of a global pandemic...
This year, we hope to mark fifteen years of fun, friendship and harmony with a concert at Wadebridge Town Hall. Whilst the plans are still in the early stages, the hall is booked for Saturday 20th September and we're already seriously excited about marking this special milestone! Running a small, not-for-profit choir, whilst keeping costs down for our members and still providing plenty of exciting performance opportunities, is practically a second job for our dedicated MD and team of volunteers. To have not only survived through Covid, when many choirs sadly folded, but to have continued to grow and thrive is a huge testament to the commitment and passion of our members. With music opportunities abounding in the locality, we are delighted by the fact that we still get new singers through our doors - and even more overjoyed when they tell us what a wonderful, warm, friendly and supportive group More Harmony is. If that's not worth celebrating, we don't know what is! We're extraordinarily proud of what we've created at More Harmony and we can't wait to show off what we do.
Whilst tickets are not on sale yet, we can promise that anyone who comes along to celebrate o
ur birthday with us will get to see some fabulous singing not only from us, but from other local groups, plus there'll be a raffle and plenty of refreshments on offer!
Rehearsals are in full swing and, as is always the case, have been full of laughter and joy as we prepare for such an exciting event. Our rehearsals always begin with a gentle physical warm up and an all-important vocal warm-up and recently, our music team have outdone themselves with their ability to make this fun and inclusive!
All that remains for us to say is keep your eyes peeled over the coming weeks for more information about our "birthday party!" And indeed, for us performing - we love to sing in the sunshine, so we doubt it'll be long before we're back out there, doing what we do best.
More Harmony is a choir for all women, regardless of experience. All we ask is that you bring your enthusiasm and can attend regular rehearsals - we'll do the rest! So, if you're a woman aged 16+ and you love singing, why not come along and do some with us?! Email us for more details, or simply come along to Wadebridge Ambulance Hall on a Thursday night from 7pm - no appointment required. We look forward to welcoming you!
- Sing-Out Season Is Hotting Up!
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Date Posted: Wed, 7 May 2025
Sing-out season is hotting up!
The weather is getting warmer and we're getting performance-ready, here at More Harmony HQ! We're a third of the way into 2025 now and we're delighted with how things are going.
So far this year we've had two new singers join us as full members, including our youngest singer, who is just sixteen! With further potential new members attending rehearsals as well, we're thrilled to be growing our friendly chorus - and to be handing out some more of our purple More Harmony music bags!
A Growing Chorus...
At the end of 2024, one of our goals was to grow our bass section. We now have four beautifully rich voices in that all-important section and the sound they're making together is rather fabulous! Having achieved our goal so early on in the year, we've set ourselves a new one: to grow our tenor section! Yes, we've gone from the lowest part of our range to the highest - can you hit those sparkling top notes? If so, we'd love to see you at rehearsal!
Of course, as the year progresses, we find our sing-out diary filling up... This is one of the highlights of what we do - getting out there to strut our stuff in front of an audience! Last weekend, we had the honour of singing at the opening of Cornwall Samaritans' new operations building. The Samaritans is a charity close to our hearts and we were delighted to attend this event and perform for the volunteers who work so hard and do so much good, as well as for the assembled guests and VIPs. We had a wonderful time, singing in the sunshine and several of us even made a bit of a day of it afterwards, heading off for tea and cake! Sometimes, you've just got to...
Sing-Outs Aplenty!
Our next performance is at the gorgeous St Petroc's Church in Bodmin on Friday 30th May, where we'll be singing alongside Wadebridge Male Voice Choir. You can grab tickets on the door and the fun starts at 7:00pm. It promises to be a fantastic evening of music, so we hope to see lots of you there.
We've got a few more performances planned in the coming months - more info to come - and we're excited to show off some of the new songs we're learning!Turning Up The Volume...
As the weather continues to heat up, we're receiving more and more requests to sing outdoors. Singing outside can make it harder for the sound to carry, so we've invested in some head-mics for our members! It's been a learning curve so far, getting used to the difference in sound and adjusting the volume so we don't have one person deafening everyone else (usually me...), but we're really pleased to have this fantastic amplification in place, as it means we can say yes to more sing-outs and ensure we can be heard from far and wide! So, if you're planning a Summer event and you'd like some a cappella singing to liven things up, why not drop us a line?
Come And Join Us!
Of course, we're always open to new members too, so if you're a woman aged 16 or over and you love to sing - whether you've got bags of experience or you're a total novice - we'd love to welcome you to one of our rehearsals! You can get in touch via Facebook, send us an email at the above address, or simply turn up on a Thursday night - we rehearse from 7:15pm-9:30pm at Wadebridge Ambulance Hall and we can guarantee a warm welcome and a cuppa. We really do have a lot of fun together, so if you're looking for a choir to join, we hope you'll come along and give More Harmony a try!
