First Details .... Dates for your diary!

Ocho

and

Silk-O-phonics

Ocho are delighted to be welcoming a German Vocal group 'Silk-O-phonics' to the East Midlands at the end of May this year. The two groups will be singing joint concerts at three venues in the area in an initiative supported by the Leicester/Krefeld Twinning organisation.

Silk-O-phonics are a jazz/pop 'a cappella' choir so you can bet that the programme for the concerts will be varied and very enjoyable. More details will be made available in due course but the concert dates for your diaries are:

Friday 30th May 7.30pm St Mary's Church, Church Road, Rolleston on Dove, DE13 9BE

Saturday 31st May 3.00pm The Leicester Guildhall, Guildhall Lane, Leicester, LE1 5FQ

Saturday 31st May 7.30pm St Margaret of Antioch Church, Church Street, Crick, NN6 7TP

The programmes for the concerts have already been developed and will involve songs being sung by the individual vocal ensembles and then during the second half of the concert, the groups will come together to celebrate the universal joy of singing. Music will include a few sacred items and be mixed with a wide variety of music by such as Queen, Coldplay, Adele, some folk songs and even a couple of show songs!!!!! A veritable 'pot pourri' of music .... all sung to the highest possible standard.

Information about tickets will be available in the near future but for a British/German extravaganza, make sure you put the dates in your diary!

It's that time of year again.......

It's October ..... so we can start talking about December!

Doesn't time fly? Ocho now have details of their 'Selection Box' Christmas Concerts which this year are being held at three venues! (7.30pm start).

Tuesday 3rd December

St Mary's Church, Marston on Dove, Derbyshire

Saturday 7th December

St Margaret's Church, Crick, Northants

Monday 16th December

The Guildhall, Leicester

As ever, we shall be singing a very wide range of Christmas themed music and this year we are also throwing in a few 'non-Christmas' songs ....just to keep the audience on its toes!

Tickets are £10.00 to include refreshments with under 16's free and are available via the Coho website (www.ochosingers.com) or ring Derek on 07769 226650 to reserve tickets. Tickets will also be available on the door. So come and start your Christmas with Ocho !!

So we DID have a lovely day in Bangor!

A great time was had by all when we visited Bangor, Northern Ireland last weekend to enter the Bangor International Choral Festival!

After travelling over on the Friday lunchtime, we were quickly into action to partake in the Festival Concert on the Friday evening where we sang 6 songs including, Danny Boy, Burden and Rock a My Soul. It was clear that we were a bit different to the other choirs in that we were obviously a smaller ensemble with no Musical Director but we were thrilled with the reception we had from the good people of Bangor. The following day the serious stuff began by way of competition. We were able to win the Mixed Voice Class but were pipped to the post in the Sacred Music Section by the 47 strong (Yes that's 47!) Wessex Male Choir ..... who were indeed excellent. A further second place in the Light Entertainment Class was followed by an award for the Best Overall Performance for the day!

The reaction of the audiences each time we sang was amazing and made all of the hard practice worth it.

The following day was slightly 'hazy' as we had a 'Sten' do! where all of Ocho and followers celebrated the oncoming nuptuals of Georgia in June and Megan on August! Overall a fabulous weekend of singing and we hope to return in the future ............