We hope this page will give you a flavour of the wide variety of music we have performed in recent years, and of the guest artistes who have performed alongside us.
2022
“From Stage & Screen” with Ooh Mama, Steventon Singers, voices from other local choirs and the Heritage Light Orchestra
West Side Story Selection
May It Be (from The Lord of the Rings)
The Lord is my Shepherd (Howard Goodall)
Hail Poetry (Pirates of Penzance)
Fiddler on the Roof choral medley
A Tribute to Queen (from We Will Rock You)
Les Miserables choral selection
A concert for the Friends of St Mary’s Church, with Basingstoke Male Voice Choir
As Long As I Have Music by Don Besig & Nancy Price
Let’s Begin Again by John Rutter
Pokarekare Ana
Wellerman
Londonderry Air
Fiddler on the Roof choral medley
May It Be (from Lord of the Rings)
Rodgers & Hammerstein on Broadway
Christmas music
The Viables Christmas Event
Carols at Milestones Museum
Carols at St Michael’s Hospice
2021
“Virtual Choir” with Ooh Mama Ladies Choir
Virtual Choir 4: You Raise Me Up by Brendan Graham & Rolf Lovland,
Arr. Roger Emerson
At last after 18 months of only meeting “virtually” we were able to sing Christmas carols at Milestones Museum, outdoors at St Michael’s Hospice, and put on a “real” concert:
December 2021
Secular and Sacred Christmas music at the Viables Community Association Christmas Celebration
2020
March 2020
Mayor of Basingstoke & Deane’s Charity Concert in The Anvil,
part of the Basingstoke Festival of Choirs
with the Heritage Light Orchestra and Basingstoke Area Youth Orchestra
“Virtual Choir” with Ooh Mama Ladies Choir
Virtual Choir 1: “Gloria” from Vivaldi’s Gloria
Virtual Choir 2: As Long As I Have Music by Don Besig & Nancy Price
Virtual Choir 3: Adiemus by Karl Jenkins
December 2020
18 choir members took part in singing socially-distanced carols in the grounds of St Mary’s Church, Old Basing
2019
March 2019
With guests Hannington Silver Band
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
You’ve Got a Friend In Me (Toy Story)
Medley from Porgy & Bess (Gershwin)
Andrew Lloyd Webber Medley
July 2019
With Ooh Mama Ladies Choir and the Heritage Light Orchestra
Requiem by John Rutter
Adiemus by Karl Jenkins
Zadok the Priest by GF Handel
The Abolition of Slavery by Bob Chilcott
October 2019
Took part in the Basingstoke Variety Show:
You Raise Me Up
Irish Blessing
December 2019
Performed popular Christmas Carols
at the Lychpit Community Centre Christmas Lights “switch-on”
Secular and Sacred Christmas music at the Viables Community Association Christmas Celebration
2018
March 2018
Joint concert with Ooh Mama
Messiah – Georg Frideric Handel
July 2018
Took part in the Basingstoke Festival of Choirs concert “Voices Together” in the Anvil, Basingstoke
November 2018
Provided the musical chorus for the Old Basing Pantomime
December 2018
Secular and Sacred Christmas music at the Viables Community Association Christmas Celebration
2017
March 2017
With guests Hannington Silver Band
Medley from Rodgers & Hammerstein
Hey Big Spender – Cy Coleman
They Can’t Take That Away From Me – George & Ira Gershwin
Do You Hear the People Sing – from Les Miserables by C-M Schonberg
Medley from the Lion King – Tim Rice & Elton John
Lullaby of Broadway – Al Dubin & Harry Warren
I Wanna Be Like You / Bare Necessities – Jungle Book, arr. Mac Huff
You Raise Me Up – Brendan Graham & Rolf Lovland arr. Roger Emerson
July 2017
Joint concert with Ooh Mama
Requiem – Gabriel Faure
3 spirituals from A Child of Our Time – M Tippett arr. S Hicken
3-Minute Messiah – Peter Gritton
Panis Angelicus – Cesar Franck
How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place – from A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms
December 2017
With guests Blue Horizon Handbell Ringers
Medley from Beauty and the Beast
A Whole New World from Aladdin
Medley of Cole Porter songs
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen, arr. M Brymer
Christmas carols for choir and audience
2016
May 2016
With guests the Royal British Legion Corps of Drums
3 spirituals from A Child of Our Times – Michael Tippett
As Torrents in Summar – Edward Elgar
Rose of England – Ivor Novello
Tunes from the Trenches – arr. P Lawson
Medley from Cats – Andrew Lloyd Webber
Fields of Gold – Gordon Sumner (“Sting”) arr. Emerson
Scarborough Fair – Simon and Garfunkel
You Raise Me Up – Brendan Graham and Rolf Lovland, arr. R Emerson
A Tribute to Queen arr. Mark Brymer
July 2016
Took part in the Basingstoke Festival of Choirs concert in the Anvil
November 2016
With guests St Mary’s Junior School Senior Choir
The Heavenly Aeroplane – John Rutter
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind – John Rutter
Ave Maria – Sergei Rachmaninov
Anvil Chorus – Giuseppe Verdi
Grand March – Giuseppe Verdi
Chorus of Hebrew Slaves – Giuseppe Verdi
Cantique de Jean Racine – Gabriel Fauré
Transeamus Usque Bethlehem – Joseph Schnabel
Irish Blessing – Trad arr. Bob Chilcott
I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside
Thank You for the Music – Abba arr. Hawley Ades
2015
March 2015
Joint concert with Basingstoke Area Youth Wind Orchestra
Medley from Mary Poppins – Sherman & Sherman
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Manning Sherwin
Fields of Gold – G.M. Sumner
Thank you for the Music – Anderson & Ulvaeus
You Raise Me Up – Graham & Lovland
The Best of Bond – arr. Ned Ginsburg
June 2015
Joint concert with Deane Sinfonia
Zadok the Priest – Handel
Medley from West Side Story
3 spirituals from Tippett’s A Child of Our Time
An Irish Blessing
2014
Spring 2014
With Paul Wright on the organ
Selected choruses from Handel Messiah
Pergolesi – Magnificat
Londonderry Air & Irish Blessing (both arr. Bob Chilcott)
Handel – Nightingale chorus from Solomon
Basingstoke Festival of Choirs
A Century of War and Peace
You Must Remember This
a celebration of the period 1911-1946
with Hannington Silver Band
Including among other songs:
Tunes from the Trenches
Irving Berlin medley
2013
A Choral Patchwork
Selected choruses from:
The Armed Man – Jenkins
Gloria – Vivaldi
Requiem – Faure
Creation – Haydn
Requiem – Mozart
West End Meets Broadway
Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert
Richard Rodgers medley
Les Miserables medley
Abba – Money, Money, Money & Mama Mia
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
Guest artistes – Fagottissimo (a quartet of bassoons)
Click here to see some pictures from this concert
