Name: The Leigh Orpheus Concert and Quiz Night – it’s back!
Start: 2019-10-19T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2019-10-19T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Westcliff High School for Boys

Concert in aid of Red Cross Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami Appeal Raises £1,000

The Choir arranged this concert at short notice in order to raise money to support victims of the Indonesian earthquake and tsunami. The concert was held at the Salvation Army Hadleigh Temple in Essex on January 26th 2019. The concert attracted a sizeable, appreciative and generous audience. The programme comprised

Christmas at the Royals

On 15th December 2018 The Choir returned, for yet another year, to serenade Christmas shoppers at The Royals Shopping Centre in Southend-on-Sea. Singing to an ever changing audience, between 11am and 2pm, The Choir performed items from their repertoire, ranging from a Welsh Hymn to a medley of 1960’s hits,

Sing For Christmas 2018

On 8th December 2018 with guests, The Belfairs Academy Choir, and a full and enthusiastic audience in the Salvation Army Temple, Hadleigh, the Leigh Orpheus commenced the concert with ‘Every Time I Feel The Spirit’ an African American Spiritual. The Compere, Eric Smith, welcomed the audience and warned them

Leigh Lights

On a dry, cold, late November night about 35 hardy souls from the Leigh Orpheus Male Voice Choir gathered to sing in Elm Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex as part of the celebration to mark the switching on of the Christmas lights. “So there we were a Merry Crew Of Basses and

Chapter House, Lincoln Cathedral

For the final performance of their Autumn Tour LOMVC visited Lincoln Cathedral on 5th November 2018 for a lunch time concert in the Chapter House. This circular building provides a unique acoustic which is very exciting for the choristers. The Choir sang a selection from the tour repertoire selected by

Autumn Harmony

For the third performance of their autumn tour LOMVC were guests of Eastwood Collieries Male Voice Choir at their Autumn Harmony concert on 4th November 2018 at St Mary’s Church, Eastwood, Nottingham. Most of the church having been burned down in the 1960s the venue consisted of the original tower

Joint Concert with The Sonara Singers

The second concert of The Choir’s Autumn Tour was held at the Post Mill Centre in South Normanton, Derbyshire on 3rd November 2018. By contrast to the previous evening’s small, medieval church the Post Mill Centre is a spacious modern building. Some unscheduled drama and sound effects were added to

St Andrew’s Church, Cubley

This was the first concert of the LOMVC Autumn Tour 2018. Held on the evening of 2nd November in St Andrew’s Church, Cubley in Derbyshire. This delightful little church dating back to 11th and 12th centuries is up a very narrow and dark lane, which necessitated the vicar leading the

LOMVC Charities Concert 2018

The LOMVC Annual Charities Concert was held at Westcliff High School for Boys, Essex on the 20th October, 2018. Four Charities were supported; Hockley/Hawkwell WI; Southend Talking Newspaper; St Nicholas Church (Great Wakering) and CAP (Christians Against Poverty). The Concert was compered, in his usual friendly, informative and amusing way

Remember the 60’s

A concert with a difference at Sweyne Park School on Saturday, 15th September! Rather than rows of chairs ‘theatre style’ guests took their places around tables, already loaded with drinks and nibbles, in teams. This promised to be an enjoyable evening and from the feedback received it seems to have