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!
The new CD from Bath Male Choir is now on sale. Called Standing Ovation, it was recorded on July 11th at Bath Forum. It contains 12 great tracks from the Choir, including many concert favourites. Click here to find out more and order your copy by post.
packs them in!
Saturday November 7th was the date of the Choir's 4th Annual concert at the Bath Forum with a packed show for the 800 strong audience - see report. Guests included the brilliant young soprano Rebecca Reed, the all-singing and swinging fabulous Stockingtops, Bath Gang Show and violinist Lizz Lipscombe.
Throughout 2009 Bath Male Choir has been singing to packed audiences around the UK with standing ovations all the way! In his review of the concert at Truro Methodist Church in late September, Neil Shepherd wrote in the West Briton:
'The choir's precision and dynamics have to be heard to be believed. The performance proved that Male Voice Choir repertoire can move with the times. It concluded to rapturous applause and a complete standing ovation. To get such spontaneous applause from a Cornish audience in the cradle of our own Cornish male voice choirs is certainly the finest accolade any visiting choir could receive.'
Lucy Woods was in the audience at the Sterts Theatre where Bath Male Choir sang to a full house on Friday Sept 25th. She e-mailed the Choir to say:
'My family went to your concert at Sterts theatre on the 25th of September and thought that Bath Male Choir was outstanding! I bought the Standing Ovation CD for my grandad's birthday and he hasn't stopped listening to it ever since! My mum also loves it so I ordered one for her birthday.' To order your copy click here and print off the form.
2009 concerts have been to packed churches and concert halls around the UK, many selling out weeks in advance and raising thousands of pounds for various charities. The year started at Wiltshire Music Centre in February, then Portishead in March, Queens Hall Taunton and Downside Theatre in April (raising £2,000 for the Children's Hospice South West) St Patrick's RC Church, Bristol in May and Vicarage Rd Methodist Church, Yeovil in June.
In July, the Bath Forum was packed for a joint concert with the fabulous ACM Gospel Choir - see our picture of Grenville with ACM'S Mark De-Lisser. In August the choir supported the Golden-Oldies Charity, topping the bill at a concert in Bath hosted by local MP Don Foster. Then came the visit to Cornwall with two memorable concerts and also a performance at the Eden Project singing in a packed dome! This was followed by a sell-out concert at Melksham which raised £4,500 for the Dorothy House Hospice. On October 24th the choir travelled to Leicester to perform at a packed St James Church in the centre of the City, a concert hosted by the Chanterelles choir.
The 2009 Cornwall tour referred to above included a guest performance at the Eden Project before a huge audience. See our concert page for details of future concerts.
Bath Male Choir ended 2009 singing in London at St John’s Smith Square, on December 11th supporting The Prostate Cancer Charity. Clive Anderson introduced the concert which was a memorable night for the 70 members of the Choir who took part.
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.
Photo by Richard Pasco
49 members of Bath Male Choir will be taking part in the 2010 Bath Half Marathon - including our founder conductor Grenville Jones who has been in training since September! Many of the choir members are keen runners and it is hats off to them and also the other members who will be running a half marathon for the very first time.
The date is Sunday March 7th and we will be raising money for two Charities - our target is £10,000 and whatever we raise will be divided equally between The Prostate Cancer Charity (Reg No: 1005541) and the Golden-Oldies Charitable Trust (Reg No: 1121600)
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Photo by Richard Pasco
Add YOUR Support
The picture above shows some of the BMC runners with Malcolm Turner from the RUNNING SHOP Bath who have sponsored all our running shirts. There is a dedicated page on the Just Giving website for you to make your donations.
CLICK BELOW TO add your support to the THE BATH MALE CHOIR members who will be taking part in the 2010 Bath Half Marathon.
For more details please click here