Grenville Jones, his music and getting people to sing!
Grenville Jones is a choir leader and musician who lives in Bath. His driving passion is to get people of all ages singing and BELONGING to a group where they can make friends, enjoy themselves and have fun through music.
He has appeared on TV and Radio across the World through the choirs he leads and the Golden-Oldies charity.
Commissions for singers have come from Disney/ DreamWorks and a number of charities look to Grenville for guidance when planning choral events. If you want to find a choir, you contact him! Grenville provides groups for weddings, films and other occasions and he has worked for the BBC on many choral projects. There are over 400 people in his singing groups. .
In the past few months alone his various choirs have helped to raise thousands of pounds for local and national charities.
Grenville is consulted on concert planning and has worked in the past with Lee Mead, Rhydian Robert, Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra, Aled Jones, Alfie Boe, Jamie Cullum, Clare Teal and others.
Grenville has three sons and is a proud Granddad of Maisey (born in February 2010) Artur and Isaac - both born in 2009.
Grenville's background includes a number of years managing newspapers as well as a period working as a freelance for the BBC in Bristol. He built up his own successful PR and Marketing company in the 80s and 90s and also owned a magazine company publishing golf titles.
Singing was always part of a Methodist home upbringing in Purton near Swindon. He used to have a tenor voice but G says that many years of choir conducting have strained his voice now to a poor bass.
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PROJECT LINES
The Golden-Oldies Charity was started by Grenville in January 2008 with 4 fun singing session for the elderly in Bath. It now runs over 60 daytime singing sessions each week across the West Region and South Wales with plans for even more in 2013 . With the support of an enthusiastic board of Trustees and many others, "Goldies" is having a profound effect on the lives of hundreds of elderly people.
Grenville's aim is to take the Charity on to national level in the next 10 years.
Click here for information on his choirs
Grenville was a Mayor of Bath - Citizen of the Year 2009. He was nominated by a number of folk who attend the Golden-Oldies sessions in the City. The Bath Chronicle in its first issue of 2009 also named Grenville as runner up to the Bath Man of the Year for 2008, an award he won last year. He was also one of 10 people nationwide nominated for the ITV / Daily Mirror Community Champion award in 2009.
In 2012 he was presented to The Queen at the Jubilee Buckingham Palace Garden Party and in June 2012 received an honarary degree from Bath Spa University for his charity and choral work.
If you would like to see what Grenville looked like when he was a member of the close harmony group Five in Bar then click here.
Grenville Jones is a choir leader and musician who lives in Bath. His driving passion is to get people of all ages singing and BELONGING to a group where they can make friends, enjoy themselves and have fun through music.
He has appeared on TV and Radio across the World through the choirs he leads and the Golden-Oldies charity.
Commissions for singers have come from Disney/ DreamWorks and a number of charities look to Grenville for guidance when planning choral events. If you want to find a choir, you contact him! Grenville provides groups for weddings, films and other occasions and he has worked for the BBC on many choral projects. There are over 400 people in his singing groups. .
In the past few months alone his various choirs have helped to raise thousands of pounds for local and national charities.
Grenville is consulted on concert planning and has worked in the past with Lee Mead, Rhydian Robert, Katherine Jenkins, Hayley Westenra, Aled Jones, Alfie Boe, Jamie Cullum, Clare Teal and others.
Grenville has three sons and is a proud Granddad of Maisey (born in February 2010) Artur and Isaac - both born in 2009.
Grenville's background includes a number of years managing newspapers as well as a period working as a freelance for the BBC in Bristol. He built up his own successful PR and Marketing company in the 80s and 90s and also owned a magazine company publishing golf titles.
Singing was always part of a Methodist home upbringing in Purton near Swindon. He used to have a tenor voice but G says that many years of choir conducting have strained his voice now to a poor bass.
Looking for a Choir to sing at your wedding - click here
PROJECT LINES
The Golden-Oldies Charity was started by Grenville in January 2008 with 4 fun singing session for the elderly in Bath. It now runs over 60 daytime singing sessions each week across the West Region and South Wales with plans for even more in 2013 . With the support of an enthusiastic board of Trustees and many others, "Goldies" is having a profound effect on the lives of hundreds of elderly people.
Grenville's aim is to take the Charity on to national level in the next 10 years.
Click here for information on his choirs
Grenville was a Mayor of Bath - Citizen of the Year 2009. He was nominated by a number of folk who attend the Golden-Oldies sessions in the City. The Bath Chronicle in its first issue of 2009 also named Grenville as runner up to the Bath Man of the Year for 2008, an award he won last year. He was also one of 10 people nationwide nominated for the ITV / Daily Mirror Community Champion award in 2009.
In 2012 he was presented to The Queen at the Jubilee Buckingham Palace Garden Party and in June 2012 received an honarary degree from Bath Spa University for his charity and choral work.
If you would like to see what Grenville looked like when he was a member of the close harmony group Five in Bar then click here.
