Welcome to Bedford Sings 2024
Booking now open!
A celebration of singing in choirs from Oct 26th - Nov 3rd 2024.
Sing, join in, listen, celebrate.
The Big Sing: Saturday 26th October. Workshop 10 am, Concert 6 pm, Bedford School
Greg Link (Apollo 5) is going to lead local choirs from Bedford as they work together, perform and learn new songs. Choirs invited include: Alive and Singing, Cantamus, Carers’ Choir, Come and Sing, First Tuesdays,, Opus 18, Promethidion, Rock Choir, Sharnbrook Community Choir, Unisong. You don’t need to be in a choir to join us.
£15 to sing for the day. £5 concert/sharing
Adult Day Pass - Join the 10am workshop and sing at the 6pm concert, £15, Full time student under 25 Day Pass - Join the 10am workshop and sing at the 6pm concert, £5
Adult - Come to the 6pm concert only, £5, Full time student under 25 - Come to the 6pm concert only, free, 18 years and younger - Come to the 6pm concert only, free
Lighten Our Darkness: Sunday 27th October, 7.30 pm St Mary’s Church, Goldington
Conducted by Joss Sanders. Music by Tallis, Haydn, Handel, Duruflé, Harris, Rutter, Whitacre, MacMillan. Free admission, retiring collection
Entente Cordiale: Tuesday 29th October 7.30 pm Bunyan Meeting
Cantamus Chamber Choir Conductor Henry Vann, music by Vaughan-Williams, Lili Boulanger, Maurice Duruflé. Tickets £10
Clare College Cambridge: Thursday 31st October 7.30 pm Bunyan Meeting
Bedford Music Club promote the world class choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross conductor, Daniel Blaze and Evie Perfect organ/piano
John Tavener, Benjamin Britten, Graham Ross, Herbert Howells, Lennox Berkeley, Emma Brown, Lucy Walker, John Tavener, Aaron Copland, James MacMillan, Andrea Klouse, John Rutter
Tickets £20, Full time student, 25 or younger £5, 18 years or younger free
Remember Your Youth: Saturday 2nd November 2-3pm St Paul’s Church
M4M(Music for Memory) is Tibbs Dementia Foundation's community music therapy service for people living with dementia/memory loss and their families/friends. Come and sing along with Tibbs and the Pink Singers. Free admission, retiring collection
Choral Extravaganza: Saturday 2nd November 7.30 pm St Paul’s Church
This will be a wild and wonderful celebration of some of the best choirs around: London’s fabulous Pink Singers, and outstanding young Enchord, prize-winning Phoenix Barbershop, hugely successful Collaboration Choir, and local favourites Opus 18. Tickets Adult, £15 (Full time student under 25, £5, 18 years and younger, free)
Sing Praises: Sunday 3rd November 6pm All Saints Church Queens Park 6 pm
Everyone is welcome to come to sing their favourite hymns. Conductor Ian Smith, Organ Adrian Quarry, Revd Simon Tibbs. Free admission, retiring collection
Bedford Sings is made possible by the generous support of The Wixamtree Trust.
