We are a choir that meets up a few times each year to sing Choral
Evensong and other church services in the most special and inspiring
places, usually cathedrals and collegiate chapels, or chapels in
former stately homes. If you love singing traditional sacred choral
music in a choir, and like the idea of doing so in amazing locations
with new and old friends and partaking of agreeable hospitality, this
may be something you would enjoy.
Find out more
here.
This website is also our
Music Cupboard. You
can find here a lot of music for evensongs and other choral services,
in many cases with rehearsal audios or videos, to help singers learn
their part. This may all be freely accessed and copied for
non-commercial use, with a credit to 'With Cheerful Voice'.
Click on an image below, or the link in one of the drop down menus
above, to find the music for one of our current events.
Upcoming events
Below are details of our upcoming events. All our events are open to any reasonably experienced choral singer.
Tuesday 25th March 2025
City Churches Singing Tour
Among the charms of the City of London are the many historic churches still to be found amid the skycrapers and coffee shops. Come and visit five of the best of them in a walking tour with a difference - we will sing for a while in each one. We will have an experienced 'Blue Badge' guide to introduce each church, and we will sing five or six short sacred pieces in each one.
This event is now fully booked. Scroll down for details of more events later in the year.
If you would like to know about future events like this, send me an email at phil@withcheerfulvoice.org.uk.
Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th August 2025
We will sing Evensong (twice) and Matins in St George's Chapel, Windsor, location of the burial of Queen Elizabeth II and other monarchs back to the Middle Ages. Click on the panel above for more details of this very special opportunity and to pre-register your interest for what may be an over-subscribed event.
Saturday 4th October 2025
Explore and enjoy the hymns, psalmody and anthems of the parish church 1700-1850, a wonderful, once-lost repertoire known as 'west gallery'.
Come as a singer or an instrument player. There were few organs in villages churches in those days and so we are forming a band to accompany us.
This event will be held in an old english village church dating from Tudor times with a great deal of its pre-Victorian interior still intact.
Click the image above for more information and to pre-register (without obligation).
Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st May 2026
Wells Cathedral
Hold the dates for our visit to one of England's most stunning cathedrals, located in the beautiful Somerset city of Wells.