The Choral Pilgrimage 2026: Southwell
16 April 2026 | 7.30 – 9.15 | Southwell Minster

Following last year’s near sell-out performance, The Sixteen’s Choral Pilgrimage tour is back once again at Southwell Minster. The music of the Spanish Renaissance is the focus of this year’s tour, ‘Lead, Kindly Light’. From sadness to great rejoicing, the wealth of emotion of these times is captured beautifully in selected works by Cristóbal de Morales and Sebastián de Vivanco. This year’s tour takes its title from a poem by Saint John Henry Newman – a personal plea for divine guidance during times of uncertainty and personal crisis. Kerensa Briggs explores these emotions in her piece specially commissioned for this year’s tour, complemented by James MacMillan’s emotive setting of Newman’s words ‘Nothing in Vain.’

Tickets are on sale and are available on our website here: (https://thesixteen.com/event/the-choral-pilgrimage-2026-southwell/) If you would like to book tickets for a group of 10 or more, we have a 10% discount available in addition to a range of concession tickets.

On Saturday 14 March 2026 at 7.30pm, University of Nottingham alumnus Ossian Huskinson returns to the Lakeside Arts, Nottingham. Now one of the UK’s most exciting and in‑demand bass‑baritones, Ossian is currently a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House and has appeared with ENO, Glyndebourne, and major European opera houses.

This beautifully crafted programme pairs Donald Swann’s The Road Goes Ever On — settings of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings poetry — with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, a cycle moving between freedom, longing, and the search for home.

Tickets: £22 (concessions available)

Sat 14 Mar 2026, 7.30pm
Djanogly Recital Hall, Lakeside Arts
Full details & booking: https://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/event/ossian-huskinson-matthew-fletcher-2026/

BDCS has received this invitation from Runby Singers. If you are interested in this fantastic opportunity, please respond directly to: Nick Couchman on 01462 372702.

We are currently recruiting experienced singers for a very special performance of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with full orchestra in Bayreuth’s brand new world-class concert hall. This project marks an important moment for the city, as Bayreuth broadens its musical identity beyond Wagner to include other major symphonic and choral repertoire.Our concert will bne part of their inaugral season.

The performance will be conducted by Jeremy Jackman and is planned as a large-scale choral event, bringing together singers from across the UK and Europe. We are keen to ensure that members of Bngham and district choral society are aware of the opportunity and able to consider applying.

Recruitment is by application rather than first-come, first-served, and places are necessarily limited. While we aim to be inclusive, we will not be able to offer places to all applicants; this reflects the practical requirements of this major project and the need for choir balance.

Applications are now being accepted online at runbysingers.org along with the rest of or 2026 holiday programme. At this stage, submitting an application for Brahms involves no payment and no commitment. We would be very grateful therefore if you would consider sharing details of the project with members of your choir who may be interested.

Guy has very generously agreed to run another Quiz Night for the choir. This is a great fundraiser – and great fun too! – so please come along if you can on Saturday 7th February 2026 at the WI Hut, Station Street. Bingham NG13 8AQ, beginning at 7.30pm. Fish and chips during the interval will be included in the ticket price of £16 pp. Please bring your own alcohol/soft drinks.

Here is Guy Turner’s press release announcing his recent arrival at John O’Groats, thus completing his heroic walk from Lands End, begun in 2023. Warmest congratulations and thanks to him from Bingham & District Choral Society, one of the 4 charities benefiting from the donations attracted by his adventure. Please be generous in marking his achievement by making a donation.

DESTINATION JOHN O’GROATS 

On Wednesday 9^th April, Southwell resident and former member of Southwell Cathedral Choir, arrived in John o’Groats, having walked, in six stages over two years, all the way from from Land’s End.

In total he covered 1,220 miles, following the north coast of the south-west peninsular, Welsh border,  west coast of England and Scotland, the Great Glen Way and finally the east coast north from Inverness. The last stage was 240 miles from Fort William over 17 days.

In all he walked 79 days, with companions for about 30 days, but otherwise on his own.

By the end of the trip, he had raised over £20,000, shared between four charities: Framework, Young Sounds UK, ecological projects at Southwell Minster, and Bingham Choral Society.

Guy says he is very glad to have undertaken the trip, but has no immediate plans for any more long-distance walking!

You can read his blog, or donate to the charities by going to:

https://guyscottturner.wixsite.com/guygoesnorth

This link will remain open until the end of June 2025.

Here are some images  of our lunchtime concert with Scunthorpe Choral Society  at St Mary’s Church Newark on Saturday 18th June 2022, followed by a celebration lunch and a presentation of a set of Jubilee mugs to our founder and first Musical Director, Neville Ward. Our special thanks go to James Turner, the photographer.