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3rd May 2024

Ashford Sings! remains a great place to be a part of and season 44 was A-MA-ZING!! From our Mini Big Sing! with Walderslade SIngs! to our singing at the bandstand in Ashford town centre, through to another incredible tour! This is a photo from us outside the hotel – all…

29th January 2024

Horrified to discover that it has been a looooong time since we completed this blog! Needless-to-say, we are still very much here! Indeed, we started this last term with an incredible 164 people at the first rehearsal, which included 15 new people! We haven’t even got a photo from this…

19th April 2023

Honestly, widely tipped as perhaps our best ever tour! So much fun was had, the singing was fab, the locations were perfect, the welcome amazing and so the list goes on! We had a number of people coming for the first time and there were smiles from beginning to end.…

28th March 2023

Yes, last Friday was our biggest ever Big Concert & Quiz at the Leas Cliff Hall! 120 of us sang our hearts out and entertained the sell-out crowd and then had a great quiz with our resident quiz-master, Leslie Taylor! We were so thrilled to be raising money for Holding…

21st March 2023

Yep, Holland is about to get us visiting for a long weekend and performing three gigs! Tours are always a great time, with singing, coaches, food, fun and choiroke (yes, it’s what you’d think it is!) This weekend, the tour Tees arrived (as sported by our very own Nic and…

3rd October 2022

Been great to welcome back faces from before and say hello to a number of new ones! We even had a couple from New Zealand joining us last night! We have a fabulous selection of songs this term and are excited for what the term holds. We also have a…

13th July 2022

What a season it has been and topped off with three great gigs – Charing Fete and then a double gig at John Wesley School (boy, that was hot!) The songs have been so much fun to sing and the choir have done such an amazing job in performing them.…

20th April 2022

Looking forward to our summer season! Already have some gigs planned and the songs are now chosen, arranged and 95% recorded (just waiting for Nic to do her bit!) All are welcome to come along and give it a try. We know it’s not for everyone, but it is for…

15th October 2021

It has been fabulous to be back in the room each week and seeing people’s confidence grow! The last season of time has been tricky for nearly every one and remains so for many, but it feels like AS! is BACK!! The Christmas songs are flowing freely and we even…

6th September 2021

So excited to be sat here choosing the Christmas songs from the list that people gave yesterday at the Singsalong! We start back on Sunday 19th September and already have a gig planned for Christmas. If you’ve been before – come back! If you’ve never been – come along! We…

19th July 2021

Following some wonderful picnics where it has been so good to see each other again, we are hosting two Singsalongs! for people to reconnect around singing (rather than food!) The first will be on Friday 30th July at 7:30pm at The Warehouse and will be just the hour, with no…

19th July 2021

(Translation below) Es hat uns tief bestürzt, die Überschwemmungen in eurer Region zu sehen. Wir sahen wie Wasser mit Trümmern übersät entlang die Straβen floβ und hörten wie manche Menschen ums Leben gekommen sind und unsere Herzen haben für euch allen gebrochen. Das sind Straβen wo wir gebummelt haben, uns…

5th December 2020

Hi all, So, in case you hadn’t gathered, we’re aiming to record a Christmas video again this year, even though we can’t all be together yet. I know this might feel like a bit of effort and making recordings can feel like a challenge, but we’d love as many people…

25th November 2020

Crikey! What a year it has been and certainly not one most of us would wish to repeat! We haven’t been able to rehearse since March and we are desperately missing the chance to get-together and sing! The bad news is that it doesn’t look like we could be back…

18th March 2020

To all our wonderful members, loyal families and supporters – greetings! It is with sadness that we are having to temporarily stop meeting as AS! for rehearsals and for gigs. Following the change in advice from the government on Monday evening, we have felt this to be the best course…

11th January 2020

What an amazing Christmas season we had, with a number of gigs completed and hundreds of pounds raised for Pilgrims Hospice too! Season 28 was very special – but it’s gone and done and #29 is ready to go! This coming season will see our tour to the Netherlands and…

6th December 2019

We are proud to release our Christmas offering for 2019 out into the stratosphere! Hope you enjoy!

2nd December 2019

Having recorded the audio last week, it was time to go into the High Street yesterday and film our video to accompany the song! Exciting times – the video should be out by the end of this week!

4th October 2019

It is with great sadness that the funeral of Owen Kinghorn is held today at St Mary’s, Great Chart. As her choir family, we stand alongside Rachael and her family in their terrible loss. The choir will be raising funds for the Kenward Trust, but if you wish to give…

17th September 2019

Looking forward to kicking back off this Sunday night with a bunch of new songs and a whole lot of fun ahead – culminating in singing at Trafalgar Square!

14th May 2019

We are now three rehearsals in to our new season and it’s starting to sound good! It’s a great set of songs and it’s not easy to see yet which are going to end up sounding the best – maybe they all will!… You are very welcome to come and…

14th January 2019

After a wonderful Season 25 in the lead up to Christmas, we kicked off with a bang last night as we had the most singers ever to a rehearsal – 171! Amazing! It was a bit of a squash in places, but the atmosphere was pretty special and the sound…