In July 2025 The Bridge Singers, of which I am the Musical Director, will commence a year of celebrations and memories of our first ten years. Here are a few of those memories.
Ten Years Of The Bridge Singers
Categories: Choiry Endeavours
Tag Archives: The Bridge Singers
Lockdown Choir
Categories: Choiry Endeavours
The Bridge Singers’ ways of keeping together as a choir, while not being able to meet up as a choir during the lockdown times of 2020-2021.
Songs For May Day, The Bridge Singers
Categories: Choiry Endeavours
A celebration of May Day – the onset of summery times, the sunrise, love (the hope of it, the actuality of it, the loss of it), workers’ rights, some May festivals, both folk and religious…
Song Stories: Knit Me Together
Categories: Choiry Endeavours, Composery Life, Song Stories
A setting of parts of Psalm 139 selected by Richard Evans, who commissioned Cheryl to compose the piece in memory of his wife Carol, who died in 2024.
Carols and Wintry Songs
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Choiry Endeavours
Carols and Wintry Songs is the name of The Bridge Singers’ December 2024 concert. There’s some Christmassy, and also some not-Christmassy music!
November 2024: Commissions Three
Categories: Composery Life
I have three songs to write this month – all commissions! Ooh – proper composer, or what!? I’ve already started one. Hopefully by the end of November they’ll all be done and I can tell you about them a bit more…
Arrangements of North-East Songs
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Choiry Endeavours
During the first half and a bit of 2024 The Bridge Singers were learning and performing mainly repertoire from the north-east of England. Here are the programme notes from the concerts with clips and information about the North-East songs I arranged for them.
Arrangements of Songs by Gary Steward
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Choiry Endeavours, Composery Life
Making arrangements for choirs of the songs of composer/ singer/guitarist Gary Steward, has been an honour and a thrill!
Song Stories: Lullaby Of Silences
Categories: Choiry Endeavours, Song Stories
A lullaby composed for The Bridge Singers (SATB choir) of Felton and Thirston in Northumberland. It is inspired by the stature of Elizabeth Dacre Howard at Lanercost Priory in Cumbria, who died in 1883 at the age of four months.
The Bridge Singers’ Christmas 2023
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Choiry Endeavours
A programme of Christmas music voted for by members of the choir included five of my compositions!
