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One of the West’s best known choir leaders is starting a new choir for everyone in Devizes next month. The driving passion of Grenville Jones is to get people of all ages singing, to enable them to make friends, enjoy themselves and have fun through music. He has appeared on TV and Radio across the World through his leadership of the Last Choir Standing Bath Male Choir, and also as founder of the Golden-Oldies charity, not to mention his many other musical projects and celebrity concerts. The Devizes Good Afternoon Choir starts with a come and find out session from 2 -4pm at St Andrew’s Church Long Street on Friday June 3. It will then run every Friday at that time from the following week, June 10. Grenville Jones started a Bath Good Afternoon Choir in May 2009. There are no auditions and it hah had to close its books with 100 members. Through his friendships with British choral directors and his many contacts in the Choir world, he saw the need for more Choirs who meet during the day. In his words Grenville says “There are many senior people who still love to sing, but the thought of attending evening rehearsals on cold winter evenings and then having to drive home late at night was stopping them from enjoying their hobby.” The Bath Good Afternoon Choir has people of all ages and Devizes will follow the same popular style with the repertoire crossing all genres from musical theatre to modern hits. Grenville Jones has a world wide reputation as a musician. For the last 2 years he has bought his choirs to sing at the popular Devizes Lions Spring Serenade concerts. Each one has sold out. His work with the Golden-Oldies Charity has been recognized on a number of occasions. He was acknowledged as the Bath Mayor’s Citizen of the Year in 2008 and also that year in the Bath Chronicle as “Bath Man of the Year”; for the following two years he was runner-up to that award. Sir Cliff Richard is the Patron of Goldies. Grenville was one of ten people across the UK shortlisted for the ‘ITV/Daily Mirror Community Person of the Year’ award in 2009 and one of five recognized in The Times Newspaper in 2010, an award sponsored by the Gramophone magazine for ‘Community Choir Leader of the Year’. He is a judge of the Song for Bath competitions at the end of June. His music groups include Bath Male Choir, THE Bath Chorus, the Good Afternoon Choir a new youth choir project, CHOIRSKOOL, the Welcome Choir, the Norland College Choir and his all-girl Stockingtops group as well as his CHOIR one. He is a Council member of the Association of British Choral Directors. He spends some of his time in Europe working on a 2 year major EU contract linked with singing and how it can improve the lives of the elderly and isolated in our communities in the years ahead. He is the only UK member of the consortium. Others include the renowned Fraunhofer Institute in Germany and the Austrian Technology Board. Everyone is welcome to go to the opening sessions of the Devizes Good Afternoon Choir. For more details see www.grenvillejones.biz ENDS Grenville Jones 0777 828 2934 or email [email protected]
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mary cowley
11/29/2011 07:15:32 pm
please send me details of next meeting for new members.
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