Surrey Harmony Barbershop Chorus. A top UK chorus singing barbershop style

Surrey Harmony Women’s Barbershop Chorus

Surrey Harmony Chorus

Surrey Harmony is a UK based women's barbershop chorus with an extensive repertoire of songs, ranging from the traditional barbershop medleys to hits from the West End shows.
Affiliated to Sweet Adelines International.

Oh dear only two weeks to Convention and we all look so glum at our dress rehearsal. What is going on at Surrey Harmony? Has Jenny been cracking the whip again? Does she want more hard work from us? Even our Choreographer Karen has bowed her head in despair. Where are our 100-watt smiles? Find out more here

We love to raise the roof with our singing, and now we've helped to do it literally. We were asked to perform at St John's Church in Hurst Green, Oxted to help with their fund raising campaign for a new extension. They hope to start work on the project in the coming months. We love to raise the roof with our singing! The concert was excellent performance preparation for our new members who are looking forward to competing at Regional Convention next month. They joined us on stage for the second half of our programme including our competition package. Find out more here

Our Assistant Director Valerie Taylor has reached a very important milestone in her bid to become a Sweet Adelines judge – the first in Britain.	Certified Judges Betty Clipman, Lea Beverley, Diane Porsch and Jan Meyer - with Valerie trial scoring
This coming weekend (2-3 May) she will be on trial at her first Regional Competition – in Sweden. It means Valerie will sit alongside the four appointed judges and mark the competitors as they do – only her scores won’t count. Instead they will be assessed by Sweet Adelines to make sure that she is marking correctly.
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Forthcoming events...

UK Barbershop Championships in Birmingham in May

Top of the list of our ambitions for 2008 is to win a medal at the UK Barbershop Championships in Birmingham in May. Gold would be our colour of choice naturally ! But even though we say the same thing every year, the competition will truly be the highest ever in 2008.

We now have the date for our annual appearance at Fairfield Halls in Croydon. It will be Tuesday July 29th at 1pm. We hope to see many of our old friends there. It's one of our favourite engagements of the year, and we know many of supporters also look forward to it.

We are already planning for our own show at the Harlequin Theatre in Redhill in November. Saturday 29th November is the date for your diaries. We are learning lots of new music at the moment which will know will go down a storm with audiences. We'll keep you in suspense as to what they are!

All that and a new "Learn to Sing" course as well most probably in late August/early September.

	Technology and a Twix
	A tale of two Surrey Superstars There’s more to running a Chorus the size of Surrey Harmony than just turning up on a Wednesday to sing.
	Many of our members put in hours of extra work doing many jobs from organising costumes to fund-raising.
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	Choir of the Day
	Choir of the Day – well one of them! We are very pleased to announce we were named as one of five “Choirs of the Day” in the Adult Choir class at the first Area Selection of the BBC Choir of the Year competition held in Basingstoke on Sunday 2nd March.

	Find out more here

See backstage 2007 convention photos here	See official 2007 convention photos here

New things elsewhere on our web site...

Talking Surrey Harmony - Tony Flook talks to Jenny Lawson, details Here
Lunchtime at Fairfield Halls - Our annual lunchtime concert, details Here
Bournemouth Music Festival - Read about our big dairy! Here
Photo Albums of our recent adventures Here

	As part of our fund raising efforts Judith our Bass section leader and one of our Assistant Directors is selling a range of items on eBay.

Come along to our rehearsals
and join in the fun!

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