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Celebrating our 90th Year on BBC Radio Derby with Becky Measures
Woohoo !! We are famous. Our chair Helen and events secretary Jen went along to BBC Radio Derby for a live interview about the benefits of singing in a choir. The breakfast presenter, Becky Measures, was loverly and put everyone at ease.
The link it attached – we are on about an hour and half in. 1:30
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002q6tm
Singing in a choir, especially Sonara Singers is great for mental and physical health. Our Musical Director provides training on vocal health which is great fun and definitely helps us enjoy rehearsals. The friendship of being part of something bigger, making music together is amazing and we love to share what we do for the benefit of the communities that we live in.
If you’re thinking of doing something different this year – please come and join us. If you want to hear us first, we have two amazing concerts coming up – details for both our events in March are here on the website.
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Welcome Lorna Flear our new accompanist
Here is a breif introduction from our new accompanist Lorna Flear, as we look forward to our upcoming concerts our 90th Year.
I started playing the piano at the age of 8 and quickly became involved in a variety of music groups, playing for school musicals including South Pacific, Bugsy Malone and The Boyfriend, as well as Staffordshire Recorders and Burton Sinfonia. I accompanied my daughter for her flute exams which led to me playing as a relief accompanist for South Derbyshire Music Centre choirs. I played for Force Ten, a jazz big band, from 2023-2025 and currently accompany both The Leaside Singers and Chameleon choirs.
I also recently started the Leaside Recorder group ‘Tootally Awesome’ as player/director and sing with the Swadlincote Messiah Choral Society, as well as attending singing events around the country, just for fun.
I regularly accompany all the workshops and conferences run by the National Association of Choirs including those led by Nicola Hunt, David Lawrence and Edward Rhys Harry.
It’s a real honour to be part of the 90th year celebrations with Sonara Singers and I’m looking forward to the upcoming concerts.Lorna Flear
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90th Celebrations Begin with Cake
What a wonderful way to start such a milestone year. We enjoyed a delicious meal with friends at the Village Inn, Marehay. Our amazing chair, Helen welcomed everyone and thanked friends and supporters as well as our amazing musical director Nicki and the choir for making singing with Sonara such a special thing to be a part of. We were all full from the wonderful food and took our cake home with us – it definitely felt like a birthday celebration. For our singers that couldn’t join us at the meal, we saved a layer and took it to rehearsal the following day.
Ladies Choir
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Established 1936
Friendship in Harmony: Celebrating 90 Years in Song
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