Held in St John’s Church, this was the first of three concerts in late 2024 conducted by our temporary MD, Mark Scullion. Barbara was our accompanist and we were delighted to welcome Charlie from the Peterborough Flute Choir. In the programme were such diverse songs as Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure), Build me up Buttercup, Mozart’s Ave Verum, the Rhythm of Life and the Sound of Silence.  We also performed a Mamas and Papas medley which we had studied earlier in the year at a workshop with Mike Horth.

Saturday 8th June saw us return to the Fleet for our Summer and Sea concert. It was a very relaxed and happy mix of music, and we were ably assisted by Dick Mallett on drums and one of our choir members, John Gribble plus our accompanist Barbara Tomlinson on accordions who joined forces to lead the choir and the audience’s renditions of some rollicking sea shanties.
The concert was very well received by an appreciative audience with the choir really enjoying having our new MD Ibby Mallett leading us in our first concert with her at the helm and Barbara playing accompanying us.
We held a raffle in aid of our local MS society, which together with the takings from the refreshments, provided by Rita Bali and her fellow Soroptimists raised a total of £502. The money will be used to support their Benefit Advice Service which helps people with MS navigate their way around the system.
Choir members and audience alike had a fantastic evening, now the choir are starting on a new repertoire for their next concert on November 16th at St John’s Church in central Peterborough.
Peter Ward, Chair

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) and currently has about 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. 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. We 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