A warm welcome to the website of The City of Bath Male Choir, founded in February 2006 by Grenville Jones, pictured.
This is a Choir that is making a BIG sound and gaining a huge reputation. You may have seen The City of Bath Male Choir on the BBC Last Choir Standing TV show in August 2008, when the Choir reached 5th place and were watched and enjoyed by millions of Saturday night TV viewers.
You will find on this website full details of our coming up concert programme, and how to get tickets. We look forward to singing for you in the near future!
Choir members come from across the area and applications for membership are welcome from guys between 16 and 65 who love to sing, you can read some of their comments on our website under 'singers.' The Choir was formed by Grenville Jones in January 2006 and now totals over 90 singers, the "Wall of Sound" is getting bigger and bigger! Grenville has proved that, contrary to public belief, MEN DO SING!
Following the Choir's appearances on Last Choir Standing the Choir is in great demand. The fantastic ACM Gospel Choir - picture below - will be coming to Bath on Saturday July 11th for a joint concert with the Bath Male Choir. Click here for full details.
The first six Bath Male Choir concerts of 2009 have all been a huge success – Standing Ovations all the way, raising many hundreds of pounds for Charities. These have been at Wiltshire Music Centre in February, at Portishead in March, Queens Hall Taunton, Downside Theatre in April, St Patrick's RC Church, Bristol in May and Vicarage Rd Methodist Church, Yeovil in June.
More details on all forthcoming chances to hear Bath Male Choir - including a concert in Leicester and a tour to Cornwall in September - see our concert section - or call Rosie for more details on 01761 472468 or email here.
Bath Male Choir will also be appearing at St John’s Smith Square, London on December 11th supporting the National Prostate Society.
The next concert in Bath is on Saturday July 11th at The Forum in the centre of the City. The Bath Male Choir are joined by the ACM Gospel Choir. from Last Choir Standing. See our concert page for more details. Tickets are priced £10, £15 or £20 - if you would like to bring a group of 10 of more people there are concessions on tickets - please call Rosie to book on 01761 472468.
If you would like to know more about joining the Choir or details about booking the Choir for a concert, please contact Grenville. If you would like to know more about the other projects that Grenville is involved with, then click here.
Our founder conductor Grenville Jones is rapidly gaining a national reputation of being, “ The man who gets people singing !” He was Aled Jones’ guest on his Radio Three program THE CHOIR last Autumn talking about the success of Bath Male Choir and the Golden-Oldies Charity he started last January. ‘Goldies’ as it has become known has attracted media attention from around the World. In March Grenville was recognised by the Mayor of Bath as a Bath Citizen of the Year 2009 for his work with the Golden-Oldies Charity. He was nominated for this award by a number of folk who regularly attend the Goldies singing session at Blagdon Park, Whiteway, Bath. The Bath Chronicle in its first issue of 2009 also named Grenville as Bath's Man of the Year for 2008.
Editor, Sam Holliday, wrote; "Our 2008 Man of the Year, has become a powerful and important ‘voice’ in our community. His work with all his choirs (past, present and indeed future) is enough to make him a worthy winner, but his success at leading the City of Bath Male Choir to TV success and his fantastic achievements with the Golden-Oldies Charity put him in a league of his own in 2008. The Golden-Oldies was a brilliant idea waiting to happen, but it took a man of rare vision, charm, enthusiasm and perseverance to do it. Grenville fitted that ‘job spec’ perfectly."
After 11 years as Musical Director of the Silver Ring Choir of Bath, Grenville stood down in December to start his own new mixed-voice choir in Bath called 'The Bath Chorus.' Find out all about this exciting new venture AND a new project for retired people who want to sing everything from Folk Songs to Abba - 'The Good Afternoon Choir' which will start in Bath this Spring.
From May 1 – May 4 Grenville’s next big Charity fund raiser is the Bath Sing for Life weekend when his Bath Male Choir, Bath Chorus and Stockingtops all-girl group will all be appearing.
Check out THE Bath Chorus – Sing for Life in May – Goldies and all of Grenville’s projects on www.grenvillejones.biz
All Aboard for Cornwall!!
Bath Male Choir will be in Cornwall this September on tour. The first performance will be at Sterts Theatre - Liskeard on Friday Sept 25th with Plymouth Mayflower Chorus and Callington Community Gospel Choir - a feast of music at this superb venue www.sterts.co.uk
Saturday Sept 26th at Truro Methodist Church with soprano soloist Cheryl Roseveare
Tickets enquires also to Rosie on 01761 472468 or email rosie@jonespublications.co.uk