Seasonal Music with Carols
Due to Covid restrictions Sheldon Singers
will now be singing outside St Pauls Church Honiton
at 6.30pm on Saturday 18 December.
Hope to see you there!
Singing round the town at Christmas
Like choirs all over the country, the Sheldon Singers were not able to come together to make music during 2020.
However, taking into account the current restrictions, we would be delighted to offer a small group of singers to sing some of your favourite carols in four-part harmony outside your home. You don’t need to go anywhere – just snuggle up with a glass of your favourite tipple and enjoy twenty minutes of festive cheer from a quartet of singers from this acclaimed choir. We would just request a donation to the charity Shelter who will be working extra hard this year to help those in need.
Messiah at St Pauls
There are many people for whom Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without hearing Handel’s Messiah, and I am one of them. I was lucky enough to be amongst the large audience in St Paul’s Honiton on 21st December for a performance by The Sheldon Singers, with four excellent soloists and a full orchestra. Unusually for an amateur choir, the decision (a brave one) had been taken to perform the work in its entirety. Singing Messiah with small forces is not easy – the choir (only 28 singers) and the compact orchestra are very exposed – but as it turned out, they were right not to be daunted. If your previous experience of Messiah has been limited to the large scale, Huddersfield Choral Society-type offering, then I recommend you seek out a performance such as we heard at St Paul’s, and which is in fact what Handel intended.
Goodall - Eternal Light
The Healing Power of Music. Amongst the parades and poppies in this 100th anniversary year of the Armistice, communities have been coming together all over the country to mark the act of remembrance through music. St Paul's Honiton was no exception on Sunday 11 November, as the Sheldon Singers gave a performance in aid of military welfare charity The Baton. For those in the full church pews that evening, we shared a memorable and compassionate testimony to those who served, those who lost their lives, and those left behind. www.thebaton.co.uk
A Feast of Carols
Sheldon Singers gave their audience at St Paul’s Church Honiton a real carolling feast on 22nd December. The concert showed off the versatility of the choir and also gave a rare opportunity to hear the harp played as a solo instrument.
Handel to Hammerstein
There should be more concerts like this one – an hour of delightful and varied music performed by the Sheldon Singers under the direction of Julie De’Ath Lancaster, in the elegant surroundings of the Music Room at Sidholme. The choir took us on a magical musical tour from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, beginning with ‘Pastime with good company’.
Christmas Concert
'The Sheldon Singers Christmas concert at St Paul’s Church Honiton began with a resounding opening of “O Come all Ye Faithful” for choir and audience, heralded by The Brass Warriors Quintet - and set the tone for the evening.
The contrast between traditional carols and not so well-known ones was wonderful. The moving and sensitive rendition by the choir of James Macmillan's “O Radiant Dawn” and Will Todd's “My Lord Has Come” were highlights.
