Ding Dong, Merrily on High....

Ding Dong, Merrily on High!

We had the fabulous Whitley Women Community Choir in on Saturday at Whitley Bay Customer First Centre.
The Carol Service is led by Gilly Love, an experienced singing leader who has led several community choirs around Tyneside in the last 10 years.

Whitley Women Community Choir is for all women over 16 and our membership spans a very wide age range. There are no auditions and no experience is necessary, but experience is good too! We have a mix of working, retired, homebased and unemployed members, all of whom have made good friends at the choir. Although some of us have had experience of other choirs, many more have not sung for years, often since they were in school.

Our choir started in January 2009 and immediately attracted a high number of members, mainly through word of mouth. There was no other community choir in Whitley Bay and many people who knew Gilly from her other choirs liked her style, enjoyed the repertoire and told their friends. We cover a wide range of material - anything from Cole Porter to Annie Lennox, Gospel, Beatles, music from around the world and from Tyneside. We sing in three, four and five part harmony, without accompaniment.