
Le Temps des fleurs
2017
What Went On In 2017?
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One of The Quangle Wangle Choir's songs this year was Le Temps des fleurs ie The Time of Flowers (better known in the UK as Those Were the Days.)
Julie Ellis painted these flowers to take us through the year. Click on a flower in the clock-calendar above to see what we did that month.

New Year's resolution - join a choir?
As always in January a fine crop of new singers joined us
January
New Year = New Singers



March 14th: Brendan Taaffe
Singing workshop from 7 - 9.30
Those who came to Brendan's workshop with us a couple of years ago had spread the word so we had a great turn-out of 63 participants! Have a look at his website to get an idea of the territory. A memorable evening of music-making.

Weymouth Choral Society invited us to be their guests and made us very welcome. Each choir enjoyed listening to the other and joining together for some numbers. Soloists Jodie and Chloe Tripp, and Louse Dukes were a treat for everyone.
April 8th: Weymouth
7.30 All Saints School with WCS
Swing Into Spring


Lucky us! 27 Quangles sailed away to the beautiful south coast of Brittany for the weekend of 28th April to 1st May. The choir of Trinité-sur-mer, (see trinichoeur.free.fr ), hosted us and gave a joint concert with us, complete with lilies of the valley for the Fête du muguet
April 29th: Brittany
8.30pm in the chapel at Saint-Philibert
near Trinité-sur-mer

Time for The Quangle Wangle Choir to take a break and soak up the sunshine on Weymouth beach
August
Holiday


As autumn turned into winter and the season of mellow fruitfulness gave way to the season of foggy chill we learnt new repertoire and revisited old favourites in preparation for Christmas
October

Christmas preparations

A joy to help host Larry Gordon's Northern Harmony singers from Vermont. See their website.
Then, at the end of the month, congratulations to Su Lewis, Island Voices and the song leaders for another successful Community Choirs Day.
November 2nd

Christmas concerts are always fun - especially when the audience are up for joining in when asked, as the good folk of Abbotsbury were today.
December 16th: Abbotsbury
Christmas concert from 3 to 4pm
St. Nicholas Church Abbotsbury


December 29th: Dorchester
Christmas concert at 4pm
United Church South Street
Nearly a full house and we raised well over £300 for The Horse Course