We have great ambitions for the future which include:

• to promote, celebrate and share singing in Bedford, in exciting and new ways

• to raise the profile of what exists

• to get more people singing

• to promote an annual week of events October 2024

• to promote high quality choirs in a range of genres (local, national and international)

• to promote singing in schools

• to be inclusive and diverse

• to commission new work

• to devise a choral methodology

We have registered Bedford Sings Limited 14234249 and will be applying for Charitable Status in due course. Company Directors: Brian Garner, Duncan Fraser, Ian Rowalnds, Matthew Palmer.

Thoughts on singing shared at the joint evensong.

“When we raise our voices, we sing with the Saints in glory.  In music the veil between heaven and Earth becomes exquisitely, shimmerlying thin.

…wherever the faithful gather, they sing. Whatever is going on, the faithful sing. With an organ or keyboard or guitar. In harmony or scratchy unison. Songs of praise in Heaven and on Earth. Songs of freedom in the slave fields of the South.  Songs of peace at the gates of war. Songs of lament at the scenes of earthquake. Through upheaval, famine, disaster and state sanctioned injustice, the faithful sing. They sing to defy the powers of darkness. 

So, my friends: sing! Sing that you may pray twice. Sing to make this liturgy one with the heavenly liturgy. Sing in protest and in praise. Sing in hope and in defiance. Sing to make your hearts soar. Sing as a kingdom sign. Just sing.

 Rev Lucy Davis