Building on the great success of the previous Sing Birmingham! and Sing Warwick! workshops,  the 2023 workshop at Kings Norton, Birmingham is again brought to you by Immanuel's Ground in collaboration with the West Gallery Music Association, and with the help of the Diocese of Birmingham and the Royal School of Church Music.

This is a Workshop of
West  Gallery Music and Carols
and is open to both
singers and instrumentalists
who would like to spend a day singing and playing
this uniquely English form of music, coming from an era which has
consistently been ignored by ecclesiastical  historians!

As well as favourites from this genre of 18th- and 19th-century church music, the Workshop will include settings of psalms and anthems written by both town and country composers, including some from the many local church composers connected to our local area.

The music is best suited to strings, flutes, concertinas (ie non-chordal instruments), woodwind, and light brass. Heavy Eb instruments such as tubas and euphoniums are a little out of character, but Serpents and other bass instruments welcome!! It would be helpful to know well beforehand if transposed  music is required.

The Workshop will be held in

The Church of St Nicolas King's Norton Birmingham, B38 8RU

Map to get there
(Google Maps)

  from
10.00 am   to   4.30 pm
Doors open from 9.30 am for coffee and setting up, etc.
Cost £10.00 to include music and light refreshments

For lunch, local hostelries available nearby at lunchtime, which
may have to be booked in advance,
or bring your own lunch to eat in the church.

Please download and complete an Application Form 
and send with cheque for £10 p/p. payable to Immanuel's Ground Quire
 
to
Sheila Macadam
30 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford. OX2 9BP
telephone:  01865 865 773
email: shelwin8@tiscali.co.uk
(Cheques will not be cashed until Monday 1st November)

Applications by Wednesday 25th October, or before, please,
as music books have to be printed in time for the following Saturday!!

Further details and further booking forms can be obtained from:

Tricia Entwistle
7 Windsor Lodge, Mickleton Road, Solihull, B92 7EP
Telephone: 07490 636 469
Email:  Tricia@immanuelsground.com

PARKING
Parking is difficult!!
Parking is pay and display at the Bull’s Head on The Green,
or in Miry Lane (the churchyard lane).

*** WARNING ***
Do not turn right out of Miry Lane in your car as you leave the Church
if you want to celebrate Christmas on earth!