Please help to create and perform an informal CHORAL CONCERT on November 7th.This will be your chance to sing together in the beautiful setting of St. Michael’s church, Barford St. Michael.Tim Johnson, Precentor and Director of Music at ETON COLLEGE, Windsorhas agreed to help us to produce a finished concert in ONE AFTERNOON!Tim will guide singers through two of Mozart’s most famous works, Requiem in D Minor and the beautiful Ave verum corpus.All singers are welcome!Please come along on Saturday November 7th at 1.30 pm for 2.0 pm rehearsals.There will be refreshments for all singers before the concert.Please contact in advance if you wish to ‘COME and SING’The informal performance will take place at 5.30pmDoors will open at 5.00pm Cash Bar available after the performance.Ticket prices are Choir £20 or £25 after 15th October, Audience £10.Contacts: Joanna Cooke-Yarborough: joannacookeyarborough@gmail.comGunilla Treen: gt.designs@btinternet.com ALL TICKETS from Mariann Young: bsmevent@btinternet.com*All details and timetable for singers will be sent out with tickets.ALL PROCEEDS FROM TICKET SALES WILL GO TO THE CHURCH RESTORATION FUND
Events At the beginning of November we held our first Come and Sing in the church with Tim Johnson, the Precentor and Director Of Music at Eton College, kindly giving his time to conduct an informal performance of Faure’s Requiem Op 48 and Cantique de Jean Racine. It was a wonderful event with 91 singers, an audience of 40 and the church full to bursting. The singing was sublime, a number of people from the audience said they had never expected to hear music of that quality in our church. We have been snowed under with requests for another Come and Sing next year. This was the first event towards Stage ll and we raised £2,030. We have a programme of events for next year so please support us. Talk on The Holy Grail - 9th May 2026 Auction of Promises - 25th April 2026 Sonare Choir - 20th June 2026 Blooms and Tunes - 22nd/23rd August 2026 And the possibility of another Come and Sing and a Musical Recital. Please continue to check for future dates.
