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We Regret The Interruption To Programmes....

24/3/2020

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...however whilst we are sad, we are not sorry.

When we decided all Choir activities would be suspended, meaning cancellation of the Spring concerts of our 10th Anniversary Year in Aylsham and Norwich, and the heart of our social choir, our Members' Rehearsals, we had (and still have) no idea when we would meet again, but we knew it was the right thing to do.

The novel coronavirus, Covid 19, is, as our Chairman Ian Masters wrote to our Members, a 'wicked' disease.  And the signs were there as to why that description was, and is, so appropriate.

It is irrelevant the general age profile of our Members, as with many male voice choirs today, is higher rather than lower, and with so many family and friends among our loyal supporters, a good number of our concert-goers are too.  It is not right to expose anyone of any age to this illness and it would have been wrong to 'tough it out', as some organisations have tried to do.  So we pre-empted things and called off our programme for the Spring for the wellbeing of our Members, our Audience, our Supporters, our Volunteers and our talented Musicians, MD Sarah and Accompanist Jason.

It is by no means the way we wanted to start our Anniversary Year of course.  The plans for our Gala Concert were coming together, including the planning of the surprises we were promising you...   ...but, at the moment, all that pales into insignificance, and people must always come first.  The only thing we are sorry about is that we don't have the opportunity to entertain you in the way that we would have wanted because there is an interruption to our programmes.  So,  Spring concerts are cancelled, and our Summer plans are on hold at present, although it's unlikely we will be able to do what we intended, if we can indeed do anything at all.

We will keep in touch with you via this Blog, on Twitter, on Facebook, our Website and, additionally with our Members, by email. Meanwhile, we must now all now hunker down, stay at home and stay safe.  That is the best thing to do right now.  So right, that we changed our Twitter banner to echo that message.

We wish you and yours well until this 'wicked' disease has passed and we are singing for you again. 
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