Joyful Company of Singers

Wooler Arts Summer Concerts 2024

Saturday 4th May 2024, 7.30pm

Joyful Company of Singers

Far from Land

Vaughan Williams             

The Dark-Eyed Sailor

The Springtime of the Year

Just as the Tide Was Flowing

The Lover’s Ghost

Judith Bingham                 

The Drowned Lovers

Charles Villiers Stanford   

The Blue Bird

Paul Reade                          

St Brendan and the Fishes

John Casken

Uncertain Sea

Jaako Mantyjarvi                 

Canticum Calamatis Maritimae

John Casken                         

Caedmon’s Hymn

Floore of Allegories (first performance)

Charles Villiers Stanford     

Chillingham

Trad. arr. W.G.Whittaker     

The Water of Tyne

Bonny at Morn

Dolli-A

Bobby Shaftoe

Trad. arr. Derek Hobbs         

Maa Bonny Lad

Dance ti thy Daddy

This highly-regarded London choir brings an imaginative programme of pieces relating to the sea and with a particular North-East theme. They will include music by Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Judith Bingham, John Casken, Paul Reade, Jaako Mantyjarvi, and arrangements of North-East folksongs by W.G. Whittaker and Derek Hobbs.

The Joyful Company will also be singing the following evening, Sunday 5th May in St Paul’s RC Church, Alnwick, at 7.00pm where they will be joined by local poet Katrina Porteous in a complementary programme that features life’s transitions and voyages of many kinds.

For further details and booking links: www.jcos.co.uk/performances

Audience Comments

Great singing and extraordinary choir tone and timbre.

I think we are immensely fortunate to have such quality music so locally. I greatly approve of the variety.

Really marvellous! We are so lucky – wonderful selections.

Absolutely fabulous concert. Great programme brilliantly delivered.

Fabulous! I’m a singer but would struggle to sing some of those tricky things! Lovely Northumbrian sea theme.