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n 1 December 2012 London City Singers had the privilege of delivering a presentation at TEDx WhitehallWomen*, a prestigious London event that ‘explored the transformational journeys of women
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rom Choir of the Year to Cleeve Harmony, February 2013 saw a waterfall of choral risers spread out across the barbershop country. So how
did this all come about? Well… Date: 31 March 2013, I’m watching the clock tick-tock down to lunchtime when suddenly I get an email from my Director, Valerie Taylor, who’d been contacted by Lucy Bull of Green Street Blues chorus about the possibility of
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CIRCLE OF 5THS RISERS
Submitted by Emma Riley, Vocal Dimension Chorus
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NEWS AND VIEWS FROM REGION 31, APRIL 2013
Celtic Chords who collected our old risers and Heather Byrne and her husband Paul who braved me driving a transit van through central London and helped with the joy that is manoeuvring Wenger risers in and out of a van.
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risers being available to a suitable home. Mission Riser had begun! Lucy had received an email from Choir of the Year (COTY) about their risers which they’d had for about 10 years but hadn’t used recently. She remembered that Vocal Dimension Chorus (VDC) had approached Green Street Blues about hiring theirs for a dress rehearsal so, being quick off the mark, she had called COTY, reserved them, then called Valerie to see if they would be suitable for VDC. Seven sets of Wenger choral risers suitable? Of course they were!! After quite a bit of organisation, and being scuppered by snow at one point, the risers were collected and safely stored in our rehearsal venue. We were very delighted to then be able to pass our old risers on to Celtic Chords, a sister chorus in our region based in Cornwall, who in turn passed their old risers onto the newly formed Cleeve Harmony Chorus in Bristol. The circle of risers was complete! Many thanks to the Choir of the Year organisation, Lucy of Green Street Blues for thinking of us, Sarah Netherton of