About us
Stonehouse Male Voice Choir was formed in
1935, in a local builder’s
yard, when two or three joiners began singing during their lunch break.
With the exception of the war years the Choir
has gone from strength to
strength and is now over 50 strong.
Rehearsals
We rehearse from 7:30pm to 9:30pm every
Tuesday night in the Paterson
UF church hall, Stonehouse, from September through to the end of March
or the
beginning of April, with breaks for Christmas etc. The practice nights
offer great comradeship, hard work and fun.
Repertoire
The Choir’s
repertoire is wide and varied ranging from classical, church music,
music from the shows and light popular music. Gordon
Millar, our Director of Music, tries to cater for all tastes.
Concerts
The choir
mainly performs at fund raising events for charities, churches, Guilds
and clubs etc. throughout the Central belt of Scotland
and we normally give about five or six concerts per season. In
addition, we hold our own annual concert in the Paterson Church,
usually held around the third week in March for two nights, which is
the
Thursday and Friday of that week. We also regularly take part in the
annual Festival of Male Voice Choirs concert in Hamilton in March and
the
Christian Aid Concert held in St. Ninian's at Christmas; and have also
performed at:-
* The Scottish Massed Male
Voice Choirs in the Royal
Concert Hall and,
* Concerts held in Dumfries
in aid of the Leonard
Cheshire fund.
2012 concerts:
Mon
30th
Jan
-
Broomknoll
PC,
Airdrie
Mon 20th Feb - Middle PC, Coatbridge
Thu 15th &
Fri 16th Mar - Paterson UF, Stonehouse
Fri 30th Mar - Hamilton Town House, Hamilton
Tue 27th Mar, Dalziel St. Andrew's PC, Motherwell