Got tickets for our anniversary concert? Why not continue the 30th Birthday celebrations with the performers at the Aftershow Party? Tickets are a snip at £10 which includes a drink and a rocking DJ til 2am! Tickets are available via a choir member or by contacting our Social Secretary Gary via joining@pinksingers.co.uk who will give you details on how to pay. Limited tickets available on the door. See you there!
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That's Entertainment! Pub quiz
Join the Pink Singers for That’s Entertainment! – an evening of showbiz quiz fun and games at The Two Brewers 114 Clapham High St (Clapham Common Tube). The evening will include a raffle, live entertainment, a lot of belly laughs and dancing.
Entrance is £5 per person and gets you entry into the quiz and to the club afterwards. Arrive early and you can take advantage of selected drinks at £2 before 8.30pm.
You can join the Facebook event here. See you there!
P.S. We’re 30
Recorded in November 2012 at St Giles’ Cripplegate, the Pink Singers’ P.S. We’re 30 CD showcases a fabulous array of the choir’s most memorable repertoire over its thirty-year history.
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- Cantique de Jean Racine (Fauré)
- Dies Irae (Mozart)
- Lacrimosa (Mozart)
- Liebeslieder (Brahms)
- With a Lily in Her Hand (Eric Whitacre)
- Lisa Lan (Traditional Welsh)
- Baba Yetu (Christopher Tin)
- Lovesong for a Vampire (Annie Lennox)
- Anything Goes (Cole Porter)
- Send in the Clowns (Stephen Sondheim)
- Joyful, Joyful (after Beethoven)
- One Day More (Claude-Michel Schönberg)
- Seasons of Love (Jonathan Larson)
£10
Timeline datestamp: 11 November 2012
Pink Singers awarded BBC Performing Arts Fund grant
In 2013, the Pink Singers will be 30 years old. As Europe’s oldest LGBT community choir, our group has evolved against a backdrop of three decades of political and social change. We are celebrating our 30th birthday by commissioning a new piece of music from renowned contemporary composer Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer the Opera; Shoes) and by organising a day of workshops in Summer 2013 for LGBT choirs and singers, culminating in a concert.
We are absolutely delighted to announce that the BBC Performing Arts Fund are supporting us in our ambitions for our landmark birthday year with a £10,000 grant.
The BBC fund was set up in 2003 to support performance groups to take on more challenging projects through commissions, work collaboratively with other organisations and produce projects that bring them closer to their communities; we are very happy that this will enable us to plan these exciting 30th anniversary events.
More announcements will follow about next year’s plans soon!
Trick or retreat!
On the Friday evening before Halloween a group of 60 or so musical, young (and young of a certain vintage) people set off from the familiar concrete of central London to face the full fear of a weekend in a mansion house converted into holiday apartments deep in the Sussex countryside. That’s right, the Pink Singers went on a weekend away and took over Brantridge Park, a former royal residence for two and a bit days of carousing and actual singing. Wikipedia tells me that Brantridge was one of the lesser royal residences and was the seat of the 1st Earl of Athlone and his wife, Princess Alice of Albany. The weekend was such a success that I think perhaps the house was filled with echoes of its former glory – and we even brought our own Princess Alice.
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