NEWS / PAST CONCERTS 2023
CAROL SINGING at JOHN LEWIS (Ipswich)
Friday 22nd December 2023
We had fun helping to raise funds for Brave Futures
We were part of the drive that raised an amazing £860 for this wonderful charity.
CHRISTMAS IN MANNINGTREE
Saturday 16th December 2023
Manningtree Methodist Church
We were joined by our friends The Songbirds once again, and brought out our best Christmas songs to get us into the festive mood.
The retiring collection raised £435 for church funds.
CHRISTMAS WITH CASTLETON BRASS
Friday 8th December 2023
Eye Town Hall
We joined forces with Castleton Brass for this exciting event.
We celebrated the start of Christmas with uplifting favourites like "Joy To The World", "Mistletoe and Wine" and "White Christmas".
SCMVChoir & The Songbirds
Sunday 17th September 2023
St. Andrew's Church
Weeley
We were joined by The Songbirds and provided a really full programme. What a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon hosted
by the church and with an amazing and supportive audience.
The sum of £900 was raised for church funds.
Saturday 3rd June 2023
Landguard Fort
Felixstowe
What a fantastic venue for a concert. We shared the stage with Felixstowe Harmonies
and enjoyed the company of a fantastic audience. The weather was pretty kind, and our hosts at Landguard Fort were very welcoming and supportive. Massive thank you to them.
A fantastic sum of £1400 was raised to be split between
St. Elizabeth Hospice and East Suffolk Prostate Cancer Support group
Saturday 22nd April 2023
St. Luke's Church
Tiptree
We enjoyed another fantastic concert as guests of Essex Police Choir.
We mixed up the repertoire for this, and thoroughly enjoyed the uplifting joint songs with both the choirs that now amounted to a chorus of about 60 people.
THE COMMUNITY LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Friday 17th March 2023
River Of Life Church
Felixstowe
We enjoyed a fantastic concert as guests of The Community Light Orchestra.
We sang some of our new repertoire for 2023 including Love Changes Everything, Panis Angelicus and Run (by Snow Patrol)
A fantastic sum of £1200 was raised in aid of Felixstowe (CAP) and The Compass
2nd February 2023
Colin Edgar Musical Director Emeritus BEM
Members of the Suffolk Constabulary Male Voice Choir are very saddened to hear that Colin Edgar,
their Musical Director between 1969 and 2015, has passed away at the age of 86.
The choir performs on average one concert each month and in the time Colin was Musical Director he only missed three
concerts in the 46 years. With his great sense of humour he was well known for delivering his
wonderful monologues at concerts. Colin's last concert was on 25 th July 2015 at St Mary's Church,
Stoke-by-Nayland. As well as playing the piano Colin was also an accomplished organist. When the choir sang in a
church Colin loved to try out the organ accompanying the choir in traditional Welsh hymns such as
Morte Criste and Gwahoddiad. In the 2014 New Years Honours Colin was awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to
policing and the community.
The choir send their sincere condolences to his wife Christine and family.
To join us or book us please contact:
Stephen Wade
Tel: 01449 672600
E-mail: scmvc@scwade.eclipse.co.uk
