1973 - Dec 1977
Concerts organised by the Singers Other Concert & Performances
"Variety Show" at the Peace Memorial Hall, Penkridge (Friday 6th July 1973)
"Carols And Songs For Christmas" (December 1973)
"Songs From The Shows" (Friday 10th May 1974 at the Jubilee Hall, Brewood)
"A Family Show At Christmas Time" (December 1974)
"Songs For A Summer Evening" (June 1975 at the Jubilee Hall, Brewood)
"May Time" (May 1976 at the Jubilee Hall, Brewood)
The Brewood Singers perform at the 'Brewood Through the Ages' flower festival (sometime during the weekend of 17th - 19th September 1976?) at St Mary's Church.
"Christmas With The Brewood Singers" (December 1976)
"Songs From The Shows" (September 1977 at the Jubilee Hall, Brewood)
Penkridge Church ??
"Variety Show" at the Peace Memorial Hall, Penkridge (Friday 6th July 1973)
"Carols And Songs For Christmas" (December 1973)
"Songs From The Shows" (Friday 10th May 1974 at the Jubilee Hall, Brewood)
"A Family Show At Christmas Time" (December 1974)
"Songs For A Summer Evening" (June 1975 at the Jubilee Hall, Brewood)
"May Time" (May 1976 at the Jubilee Hall, Brewood)
The Brewood Singers perform at the 'Brewood Through the Ages' flower festival (sometime during the weekend of 17th - 19th September 1976?) at St Mary's Church.
"Christmas With The Brewood Singers" (December 1976)
"Songs From The Shows" (September 1977 at the Jubilee Hall, Brewood)
Penkridge Church ??
General Details
Unfortunately, I do not have any details about concerts and performances from 1973 to 1977. The only concert people still talk about was a concert at Penkridge Church. People recall that the weather was so awful that night, that there were very few in the audience. Apparently, there were so few people that the vicar introduced the members of the audience one by one to the Singers!! Does anyone have a date for this one?
If anyone has details about any concert from this period, please let me know. The information on the grid above was all taken from the 1978 summer show programme "Way Out West".
If anyone has details about any concert from this period, please let me know. The information on the grid above was all taken from the 1978 summer show programme "Way Out West".
David S Brookes (April 2000)
From the Brewood Advertiser - August 16th 1973 -possibly the first newspaper report.
1973
I've just borrowed information from our archivist (and treasurer), Mike Butler. Mike took over as archivist in 1998, when Fred Briggs, one of the founder members of the group sadly died. Fred tells us that the Olde Tyme Music Hall concert produced by the Brewood Players on Saturday 16th December 1972, led to the formation of the Brewood Singers. A nucleus of voices from the Players, plus additional voices recruited in the neighbourhood, produced the Brewood Singers. As the groups first engagement was as a guest group in a Concert at Penkridge for the Oddfellows Society of Stafford on Friday 6th July 1973, one assumes that the group first began to rehearse together sometime early in 1973. At this concert the Singers had a 'spot' just before the interval, but I have no idea what was performed. On the same page an undated newspaper cutting saying that the Singers took part in a Flower Festival during the weekend of 17th -19th September. Assuming that the 17th September is a Friday and assuming the dates reported are correct, the year must be 1976 - the next nearest year after 1973 where the 17th occurs on a Friday. (Fred seems to have pasted this on the wrong page of the archive cutting book, perhaps?). The Singers produced their first independent concert in the Jubilee Hall on Friday 21st December 1973: 'Carols and Songs for Christmas'.
1974-1977
The archive folder suggest that the list above is accurate, apart from the ambiguity as regards the Flower Festival (17th -19th September 1976). Programmes are available for all concerts except the Christmas 1975 production 'A Family Show at Christmas Time'. As the newspaper cutting (Cannock Advertizer, Thursday 2nd January 1975) shows the Singers in costume, I assume that this concert was in the Jubilee Hall. I still have no more information about the concert in Penkridge Church, mentioned above.
Patricia Corfield was the Musical Director/ Pianist of The Brewood Singers from 1973 - at least until May 1976
Grenville Heath was Musical Director for 'Songs From the Shows' on September 28th & 29th 1977.
Was it Pat or Glenville who directed "Christmas With The Brewood Singers" (December 1976)? I have vague recollections of people saying Grenville directed at least one Christmas Concert - this could only have been December 1976.
I took over as Musical Director in January 1978.
I've just borrowed information from our archivist (and treasurer), Mike Butler. Mike took over as archivist in 1998, when Fred Briggs, one of the founder members of the group sadly died. Fred tells us that the Olde Tyme Music Hall concert produced by the Brewood Players on Saturday 16th December 1972, led to the formation of the Brewood Singers. A nucleus of voices from the Players, plus additional voices recruited in the neighbourhood, produced the Brewood Singers. As the groups first engagement was as a guest group in a Concert at Penkridge for the Oddfellows Society of Stafford on Friday 6th July 1973, one assumes that the group first began to rehearse together sometime early in 1973. At this concert the Singers had a 'spot' just before the interval, but I have no idea what was performed. On the same page an undated newspaper cutting saying that the Singers took part in a Flower Festival during the weekend of 17th -19th September. Assuming that the 17th September is a Friday and assuming the dates reported are correct, the year must be 1976 - the next nearest year after 1973 where the 17th occurs on a Friday. (Fred seems to have pasted this on the wrong page of the archive cutting book, perhaps?). The Singers produced their first independent concert in the Jubilee Hall on Friday 21st December 1973: 'Carols and Songs for Christmas'.
1974-1977
The archive folder suggest that the list above is accurate, apart from the ambiguity as regards the Flower Festival (17th -19th September 1976). Programmes are available for all concerts except the Christmas 1975 production 'A Family Show at Christmas Time'. As the newspaper cutting (Cannock Advertizer, Thursday 2nd January 1975) shows the Singers in costume, I assume that this concert was in the Jubilee Hall. I still have no more information about the concert in Penkridge Church, mentioned above.
Patricia Corfield was the Musical Director/ Pianist of The Brewood Singers from 1973 - at least until May 1976
Grenville Heath was Musical Director for 'Songs From the Shows' on September 28th & 29th 1977.
Was it Pat or Glenville who directed "Christmas With The Brewood Singers" (December 1976)? I have vague recollections of people saying Grenville directed at least one Christmas Concert - this could only have been December 1976.
I took over as Musical Director in January 1978.
David S Brookes (March 2002)
I think this is 1976. (Deduced from the date 17th-19th September being a weekend)
Updated March 2002
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The Brewood Singers
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A mixed choral group (SATB) who perform concerts and sing 'classic pops', traditional, stage, film, some religious and Christmas music etc.
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Musical Director: David S Brookes
Accompanist: Margaret Simpson |
