Charity Christmas concert at St Oswald’s to raise funds for Peterborough Women’s Shelter
Our final concert of the year at St Oswald’s, always a highlight for the choir

Christmas Concert at St John’s Church with Peterborough Concert Band. Our first concert with the band, hopefully not the last!

Peterborough Take Note Community Choir celebrated their 10th anniversary by hosting a concert at The Fleet Community Centre, on Friday10th November in front of a large appreciative audience.

The choir was started 10 years ago for anyone in Peterborough who wanted to sing – no audition required. The choir currently has over 60 members.

Two founder members, Jan and Tony Forster, were present at the concert, along with James Day, who was the choir’s first Music Director.

Conducting Take Note was Fergus Black, the choir’s Music Director. Fergus was born in Scotland and studied music at St Andrew’s University and in the USA.

The Choir sang a very varied programme, including favourites from the past ten years, such as “Barbara Ann”, “It Don’t Mean a Thing”, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” along with medley of Abba songs from the “Mamma Mia” movie.

Also included in the programme was Vivaldi’s “Gloria In Excelsis Deo” Wagner’s “Pilgrims Chorus” and Verdi’s “Coro Di Schiavi Ebrei”

At the piano was the choir’s accompanist, Ibby Mallett, who studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She also conducted the ladies of the choir who sang a beautiful arrangement of “Like a Singing Bird”.

After the concert, the audience joined the choir for a buffet and celebratory birthday cake.

Earth Elements, our first concert with Fergus Black as MD and Kate Bidwell as Accompanist. Enjoyed having the Flute choir with us again

Charity Christmas concert at St Oswald’s to raise funds for Peterborough Soup Kitchen

In Tune together at last – our first concert with band after the pandemic, performed with The Salvation Army Citadel band to raise funds for their ongoing work with the community

Celebration of Songs and Music with guests, Peterborough Flute Choir, a pleasure to perform with and listen to the Flute choir, we plan to include them in other concerts

Charity concert at St Oswald’s to support their nominated charity

Concert to raise funds for 4Louis, a charity which supports bereaved parents

This concert was a first for PTN in many ways – the first to be run as a charity concert (in aid of the Peterborough branch of Parkinson’s UK), the first for our new accompanist, Käthe Wright Kaufman (organ scholar at Peterborough Cathedral) and our first Christmas Concert for a few years.  Held at Queen Katharine Academy, the concert was enjoyed by a good-sized audience. We performed a wide variety of Christmas music from Gaudete through to Believe (from Polar Express) and Walking in the Air (from the Snowman), and including some traditional carols. We very much enjoyed singing several carols composed by John Rutter, including the beautiful All Bells in Paradise.  The enchanting Mary Did You Know (Lowry/Greene arr. Hayden) also became a firm favourite with the choir.