Join us at Timeline for the new term:
Cambridge Timeline Choir starts Thurs 26th September 2024 with a session led fantastic local composer Hannah Conway. Drop us a line on CambridgeTimelineChoir@gmail.
Leith Hill Timeline Choir starts Tuesday 24th September 2024 with a session led by our conductor, Claire Robins. Drop us a line at claire@robinsmusicroom.com to find out more, or come along for a free taster to join with us singing!
Timeline Choir invite you to join us on Saturday 6th July at St Paul’s Church, Hills Road, for our summer concert: songs of foul fiends and dark deed across the centuries! Murder and misdeeds abound as we look at some of the darker sides of folksong, featuring poisonous relationships, gallows confessions and the song of Mad Tom of Bedlam. Not for the faint-hearted!
Find out more and get your tickets here.
Although we are still only seeing intermittent sunshine we are looking forward to another summer term at Timeline Choir.
See you on on Thursdays at St Barnabas.
Join Cambridge Timeline Choir for a 4-week festive carol course, culminating in an informal performance at Mill Road Winter Fair. Sing away those winter blues and drill the harmonies of your favourite carols until you can sing them in your sleep. No sight-reading ability or prior experience required. All welcome!
Click this LINK to book your place. And for more info, just send us an email!
Welcome back Timeliners! It was great to see you last Thursday. This term we will be finalising the programme for our concert ‘Pastime With Good Company‘ which is set for 3rd November in St Paul’s church, Hills road. The theme is eating and drinking songs! We look forward to seeing you in the coming weeks.
We would love to welcome you to join us for a concert
7:30pm Friday 3rd November
St Paul’s Church, Hills Road
We’ve had a great term exploring the breadth of musical pageantry related to drinking! Now we are off for a well earned summer break.
September rehearsals for Cambridge start on Thursday 21st September. We look forward to seeing you there.
We are rehearsing in person again at last. Come and join us!
Well, it’s been quite a year! With the promising news on vaccine rollout, and the end of lockdown timetable apparently progressing as planned (fingers crossed), it looks like Summer 2021 should be the last term on Zoom for Cambridge and Leith Hill Timeline Choirs. We’ll be kicking off with two open sessions, which anybody can attend, on Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th April (sign up here).
It’s been a tough year, but we think we’ve made the best of it. Of course we’ve missed singing together in the same room (terribly!)… and it’s fair to say that we (Stef and Claire) will breathe a massive sigh of relief when the time comes to put technology to one side… But there have been huge silver linings in all of this upheaval too! Welcoming new temporary members from outside Cambridge/Surrey has been an absolute delight, and we’ve been so privileged to welcome our new Dutch members, as well as friends from around the UK. We’ll be thinking hard about how to keep these precious connections in future, when things move back to their usual locations. For now, it’s full steam ahead with preparations for what we hope will be our last ever Timeline Together Term, with a plan to move back to in-person singing in the autumn. Getting together to sing later in the summer may well become possible, but we’ll provide a full term of Zoom choir and aim to schedule any in-person singing as an additional activity, outside of those rehearsals, as and when it becomes possible.
As always, the goal this term will be to recreate the togetherness of choral singing in spite of us being physically apart. The theme is music for the summer season (including summery shape-note songs, rounds, folksongs, and even a summer hymn), and ‘songs of home’ – music with words and melodies from our local areas. In the latter category we have a brand new commission by Chris Leadham (a song set in Cambridge Town), brand new arrangements by Stef and Claire, and music to celebrate local saints, who have their festivals in May and June, including a hymn about Æthelryth, the 7th-century Abbess of Ely! We’ll also be inviting members to share songs from where they grew up. Like last term, Claire and Stef will continue to work together and Leith Hill and Cambridge members are welcome to attend rehearsals on Tuesdays with Claire and/or Thursdays with Stef. We’re also continuing to welcome new members, taking advantage of the opportunity to sing with friends from around the world… So tell your friends! 🙂
We will keep you well-stocked with heart-warming harmony during these troubling times!
From Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th Aprilto Tues 6th and Thursday 8th July(With a HALF TERM break in the week commencing Monday 31st May.)
Leith Hill Timeline Choir Begins the Spring Term with a Zoom session on Tuesday 27th April, 7:30–8:30pm, live from Claire’s living room. Invitations to the Zoom rehearsals arrive by email at the beginning of every week. If you’d like to sing with us, you can either: sign up for the open session on 27th April, email Claire to join or read more here.
Cambridge Timeline Choir begins with a Zoom session on Thursday 29th April, 7:00–8:00pm, live from Stef’s living room (now featuring special guest performers, Maxi and Maia, the Bengal Terrors of Madras Road). Invitations to the Zoom rehearsals arrive by email at the beginning of every week. If you’d like to sing with us, you can either: sign up for the open session on 29th April, email Stef to join or read more here. N.B., the different timings for Cambridge and Leith Hill.
Timeline Choir is a community singing group with a difference: although it is open to all, with no auditions and no requirement for members to be able to read music, the choir is set apart by its specially-arranged and artistically ambitious repertoire, which celebrates the heritage of the local area, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.
Although the Coronavirus crisis lockdown has made it impossible for Leith Hill and Cambridge Timeline Choirs to meet in person during the Summer Term, we have decided the show must go own! Timeline Choir is going virtual, and you are invited to sing with us from the comfort of your own homes!
What’s more, we decided to try to turn these restrictions on our activities (can’t meet in person, can’t hear each other singing in real time) into an opportunity, by embracing things we can’t do in the real world, but can do in the virtual one. First of all, we’re giving Leith Hill and Cambridge members the chance to join in with each other’s choirs this term (well, why not?!). We’ve also joined forces Jon Hughes (website here), known to TLC members as the composer of Through the Gate, one of our favourite pieces to sing. By collaborating with each other, we can combine our skill-sets to make available a far greater range of online resources over the coming term, as well as new music, fresh ideas, and the chance to connect with like-minded singers from other parts of the UK. It’s a way of turning this separation into a coming together. 🙂
From w/c Monday 20th April to w/c Monday 6th JulyWith HALF TERM in w/c Monday 25th May.
As well as these weekly sessions, Claire, Stef, and Jon will be sharing warmup videos, rounds, technical tips, fun songs, tutorials for harmony parts, and much more as the term progresses. We will keep you well-stocked with heart-warming harmony during these troubling times!
Leith Hill Timeline Choir Begins the Summer Term with a Zoom session on Tuesday 21st April, 7:30–8:30pm, live from Claire’s living room. Invitations to the Zoom rehearsals arrive by email at the beginning of every week. You can email Claire to sign up or read more here.
Cambridge Timeline Choir begins the Summer Term with a Zoom session on Thursday 23rd April, 7:00–8:00pm, live from Stef’s living room (usually featuring special guest performer, Magnus the piano-playing cat). Invitations to the Zoom rehearsals arrive by email at the beginning of every week. You can email Stef to sign up or read more here.
Timeline Choir is a community singing group with a difference: although it is open to all, with no auditions and no requirement for members to be able to read music, the choir is set apart by its specially-arranged and artistically ambitious repertoire, which celebrates the heritage of the local area, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.