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The choir are now back in rehearsal following our Winter break and eager to learn new music to entertain you with in 2024. We have a busy year of concerts already booked for the year including an away day to Biddulph in Staffordshire where we will be singing with a local choir.
We will be involved in a Gala Charity Concert in April along with our friends from Whilton Warblers, 3 In Accord and piano pupils of our accompanist Lauren, to raise awareness of, and funds for, Craniosynostosis, a birth defect in which the bones in a baby's skull join together too early. This can lead to the skull becoming misshapen and can limit the growth of the baby's brain. This promises to be a great evening of music for a brilliant cause.
Details of these concerts are on our concert programme page.
Our choir numbers now stand at around 45 choristers so our scope to take on new singers is limited. We are always on the look out for tenors and basses, particularly those with the ability to read music or who have previous choral experience. If this is you and you are interested in coming along and seeing what we are about please contact our Musical Director or come along to St Andrews Church on Wednesday evenings at 6.30pm. See our contacts page for more information.
Our Facebook page - Cantare Singers Northampton, has many recordings of us singing some of our favourite songs.
Hope to see you at one of our concerts soon
Cantare Singers will entertain you!
Introduction
Welcome! Thanks for visiting our website – we are always happy to get a visit from long-time supporters and new friends. Check out our concert schedule, who we are, and latest news.
Performances
We work hard in rehearsals to ensure we give the best possible performance, whether it be a full evening concert, a short afternoon performance or at a wedding or special event. Come, and be entertained. We love to meet our audience, so be sure to introduce yourselves afterward!
If you like variety in your music, then Cantare Singers are the group for you. Our repertoire ranges from Opera and Gilbert and Sullivan, through traditional songs to numbers by Elton John, The Carpenters and Sting. We love to perform "songs from the shows", from Rogers and Hammerstein favourites, through West Side Story, Oliver, Paint Your Wagon, Camelot and many more, to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins. No music catalogue would be complete without music from Andrew Lloyd Webber and we feature music from The Phantom, Cats and Joseph amongst others.
We are proud of our ability to sing sacred music, with a variety of arranged hymn tunes (some arranged specifically for the Cantare Singers), gospel songs, calypsos and more. We also perform Easter Oratorios such as John Stainer's "Crucifixion" and Maunders "Olivet to Calvary".
Christmas is not ignored. We sing a great mix of carols and songs (some serious, some not so), including Walking in the Air, Mistletoe and Wine, Frosty the Snowman and The Twelve Days of Christmas.
We are always adding to our repertoire and with over 250 individual items at our fingertips, we can be sure there is something for everyone.
Let us entertain you!
Testimonials
"I should like to express our thanks for the magnificent concert put on by the Cantare Singers" FTG Bird, Chairman of Appeal Fund, Bethany Homestead, Northampton.
"Thank you to the Cantare Singers for the wonderful performance (of The Messiah) given at Dodford Church. It was a beautiful evening and everyone really enjoyed it/ It also made a dream of mine come true, so thank you". Jennie Fuller, Dodford Church
"Thank you and your choir for the magnificent performance they gave of Stainer's Crucifixion during Holy Week." Diane Latchford, The Parish of Duston and Upton
"thank you and your wonderful choir for giving us such a pleasant evening. Comments from everyone have been most complementary and all agree that they had an excellent evening". Rosemary Wallace, Church Secretary, Carey Baptist Church, Moulton,