Join Us

JOIN US

If you would like to sing in a choir come and join Bingham and District Choral Society. We sing three concerts in each season, which starts in September. We don’t hold auditions – if you can read music it will make it easier for you, but we welcome anyone who is keen to sing!

Our rehearsals will take place between 7.15pm and 9.30pm on WEDNESDAYS during school term time, at CARNARVON PRIMARY SCHOOL, Nursery Road, Bingham, NG13 8EH. This will include a 20 minute break. Tea/coffee and biscuits are available during the interval for a donation of 40p.

Our concerts are usually in November, December (our Christmas special), May and July, although this schedule remains flexible. The best time to join is when we start to rehearse new works, usually in September and January. New members are invited to try us out for three weeks free of charge. If you are unsure, or haven’t sung in a choir before, we have a mentor for each singing part, who can help to get you orientated.

Our annual subscription is £130 (which can be paid in two instalments of £65) We are particularly keen to encourage younger members to join, so there is a special subscription rate of only £1 for those in full time education. Music can be hired for a nominal fee.

In addition to our musical activities, we enjoy a range of social activities which help us to raise funds so that we can continue to afford professional soloists and orchestral support for our concerts.

Contact us by e-mail for further information:
choir@binghamchoral.org.uk or ring Valerie Morgan (Choir Secretary) on 0115 933 2353.

Click here for an application form 2024/25

NB RETURNING MEMBERS A completed form is only required if contact or Gift Aid details have changed. Otherwise please send payment only.

NEW MEMBERS We are happy to allow 3 weeks to settle in before payment is due. Please send completed form only.

REHEARSALS

Rehearsals take place on Wednesdays at 7:15pm, Carnarvon Primary School, Nursery Road, Bingham, NG13 8EH. If you have always wanted to join a choir then why not come along and see how rehearsals work. If you don’t know what voice part you sing we can quickly establish that so we can make sure you are sitting with others in the same voice range. We are always short of male tenors!

Janet Chapman, a longstanding member and now our Chair, describes how she has benefited from being part of the choir

” I had done no singing since student days but by joining Bingham at a friend’s suggestion, I rediscovered the fulfilment it gives, not only for the uplift, challenges and fun of regular rehearsals, but the deep joy of getting to know and better understand wonderful works of music as well as having the satisfaction and reward of performing the pieces in concert.”

FUTURE CONCERTS AND EVENTS 2025

Summer Concert

BDCS will be performing in the Nave of Southwell Minster on Friday 13th June 2025 from 1.30 – 2.15pm as part of the Minster’s free lunchtime concert series. We will be singing Songs and Legends of Robin Hood by Guy Turner plus a selection of well-known songs with a summer flavour. There will be a retiring collection in aid of the cathedral’s Milo Chorister Fund. Tea and coffee may be purchased in the South Transept on arrival.

13th June, Summer lunchtime concert, Southwell Minster. Time and programme to be announced.