Two outstanding male voice choirs are coming together to celebrate 70 years of making glorious music when they perform in the Mayor of St Edmundsbury’s Charity Concert at St Mary’s Church, Bury St Edmunds, at 7.30pm on Saturday 2 August.
The Male Voice Choir of the Estonian Academy of Science, celebrating its golden jubilee, will join the St Edmundsbury Male Voice Choir, now in its twentieth year, in a concert that combines different traditions in a kaleidoscope of sound.
The St Edmundsbury choir works with other choirs across the world and its repertoire is accomplished and varied. Intense pride in their country led a large number of singers in the Tallinn choir to be involved in the struggle for independence from 1988 to 1992, reflected today in their programme of support for new and smaller choirs.
They will be raising funds for the Mayor of St Edmundsbury’s chosen charities: West Suffolk Voluntary Association for the Blind; Royal National Institute for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (Local Branch); Haverhill Food Bank and St Edmundsbury Male Voice Choir.
The next time the two choirs will sing together will be in the 2009 Estonian National Song Festival alongside every choir in Estonia in a vast choir of tens of thousands of people.
Tickets for the concert cost £10, available from the Mayor's Secretary, St Edmundsbury Borough Council, Borough Offices, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds; at Churchgate Books, in Churchgate Street and also at the door on the evening of the performance.
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Note to editors: For more information, contact Chris Fielder, Chairman St Edmundsbury Male Voice Choir phone: 01284 787757
Issued by: Sally Easton, Communications Unit, St Edmundsbury Borough Council. Phone: 01284 757033. Email: sally.easton@stedsbc.gov.uk
