From: Bill Hill, Press Officer
Mobile: 07972 013 614 E-Mail: ROTMalevoicechoir@outlook.com
From Standing Out ……to …..Outstanding
All over Nottinghamshire, men have been standing out from their contemporaries by volunteering to support Prostate Cancer UK. Guided by Peterborough Male Voice Choir, Radcliffe on Trent Male Voice Choir have been recruiting volunteers from South East Nottinghamshire and beyond to join Men United in Song. The purpose, to create a volunteer choir to learn to sing and to learn a variety for songs for a debut concert in Southwell Minister on 10th May. The result was an outstanding performance from a choir of 100 volunteers that led to a standing ovation! Not only that, but they were also joined by the ethereal voices of Cantamus Girls Choir in a joint rendition of Biebl’s Ave Maria and a rousing accompaniment on the organ for American Trilogy. But…. what was truly outstanding was that the volunteers had raised over £44,000* at that point, breaking their targets with ease, with more to come.
As if that wasn’t enough, the Radcliffe choirs joined with 300 other men from Peterborough, Welwyn Garden City, Northampton, and Worcester Male Voice choirs, at a special concert in Nottingham’s Albert Hall: the massed voices of 400 men filling the hall with sound and thrilling the 430-strong audience. At that point, those choirs had collectively raised over £85,000!
Truly Outstanding!
As a postscript, the volunteers then surprised shoppers at Nottingham’s Victoria Centre with a flashmob of 70 men, singing a medley of songs and delighting the audience, raising over £600.
- A BIG thank you goes to all those advertisers who supported our concert programme and those publications who carried our reports and posters. Especially to our printer, Steve at Ultraprint 2000 at 1 Blake Road, West Bridgford (0115 981 9191), who graciously took our high volumes, last minute prints and short notice changes in his stride.
- Donations raised by the volunteers now stand at over £57,000!
For the latest information on the Radcliffe Male Voice Choir, please go to the website or Facebook on: www.radcliffeontrentmvc.org and : www.facebook.com/ROTMVC