Canterbury Cantata Trust Trustees have been closely following news and information around the Coronavirus outbreak and we wanted to let you know how we are responding to the changing situation.
Following advice from the Government and NHS with regard to the risk to older members of society through the spread of this virus, we will suspend all our activities with immediate effect until it is appropriate and safe to meet together again.
Thus from Monday March 16th and until further notice, Canterbury Monday Music, Folkestone Monday Music, Amici Chorus, Canterbury Skylarks and Cantata choir will not meet.
The performances of Bach St John Passion scheduled for Folkestone (March 21) and Canterbury 29 th March are postponed.
Grenville Hancox
Dear singers,
I am sure that many of you are desperate to return to singing, whilst others may feel apprehensive while the outlook is still so uncertain. We all miss the communal harmony that our sessions represent but we must, for the moment, remain cautious. The board of trustees met recently and are in agreement that the current situation demands that we are unable to confirm that singing groups will recommence meeting face-to-face from September at present as we must bear in mind the demographic of our groups, the wellbeing of our facilitators and potential decreasing immunity in our members in the early autumn.
We will send an update as soon as we can.
Meanwhile, it would be most helpful to us to have an idea of how many of you are planning to return to your groups when we do recommence, so please could you advise your relevant contact as to whether you plan to return to your singing group as follows:
AMICI CHORUS
Sarah Nightingale
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MONDAY MUSIC
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Folkestone – Michelle Fletcher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SKYLARKS
Lucy Markes
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CANTERBURY CANTATA CHOIR
Vanessa Young
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With thanks for your continued support and co-operation and wishing you all well,
Roshna Ahmad
Chair, Canterbury Cantata Trust
Registered Charity Number 1163197 | www.canterburycantatatrust.org.uk
I do hope that you are keeping safe and well as we bathe in sunshine at this strangest of times. I bashed saucepan lids and clapped wildly on Thursday last
and then decided to play Somewhere over the Rainbow from my balcony to as much of Folkestone as possible! I made a little recording on my I phone next morning to send to you and other friends. I hope you enjoy and perhaps can sing along.
I wonder if you listened to St John yesterday in the recording of a concert given two years ago by John Butt directing Welsh National Orchestra and Chorus. Wonderful singing ...such an emotive Evangelist. I really liked the interview with John before the broadcast.
