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2020

Saturday, 14th March "Grand Day IN" - our annual workshop of West Gallery and related music
10:30am-4pm, Sandhurst Baptist Church Hall, Rye Road, TN18 5PG, (on A268).
FREE and OPEN to singers and instrumentalists for part or all of the day.
Bring some lunch to share if you attend all day.

Due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation, rehearsals and
public commitments are cancelled until further noitce.
We hope to be able to rehearse again later in the year, and perform in 2021.
Subject, of course to Government rules.

2021

Saturday, July 24th OR 31st "Grand Day Out", giving short informal concerts in churches including:
Peasmarsh and Fairfield

Sunday, 3rd October Carols Workshop, Tenterden Town Hall (part of the Folk Festival)

Wednesday, 1st December "Going the Rounds" Concert, Vestry Hall, High Street, Cranbrook.
for the Cranbrook Museum and Local History Society.

What we did in 2019

Saturday, 6th April Concert, "A Country Living", All Saints, Birling - pictures: interior & exterior

Saturday, 13th April Members of the Marsh Warblers took part in Three Quires' Day,
a West Gallery workshop day held in Lewes, Sussex.

Saturday, 11th May "Grand Day IN" - our annual day workshop of sacred and secular music
10:30am-4pm, Sandhurst Baptist Church Hall, Rye Road, TN18 5PG, (on A268).

Saturday, 28th September Concert, "From May Day to Michaelmas" for Harvest Supper,
St.John the Baptist, Wittersham

Sunday, 6th October Carols Workshop, Tenterden Town Hall (part of the Folk Festival)

Saturday, 26th October Members of the Marsh Warblers took part in Three Quires' Day,
a West Gallery workshop day held in Lewes, Sussex.

Saturday, 7th December "Going the Rounds" Concert, Sandhurst Baptist Church, Sandhurst, Kent, TN18 5PG.
(in aid of Starfish Malawi)
We helped raise Ł370 for this excellent charity

Watch a video of us on YouTube singing Reginald Spofforth's glee "Hail Smiling Morn"

See pictures of our 2006 Church Tour of Wittersham, Northiam, Newenden, & Sandhurst
2008 Church Tour of Brenchley, Wateringbury, East Peckham & West Peckham
2009 Church Tour of Bonnington, Newchurch, St.Mary in the Marsh, & Brookland
2011 Church Tour of Smallhythe, Peasmarsh, East Guldeford, and Fairfield

What is West Gallery Music?
Find out about the music we perform and how it got its name. Georgian Churches
What were eighteenth century churches like inside? - before the Victorians "improved" them! Who was Henry Tolhurst?
Read about an amateur composer from near Maidstone who struggled to make a living from his music and died aged 36.


	2020
	Saturday, 14th March	"Grand Day IN" - our annual workshop of West Gallery and related music 10:30am-4pm, Sandhurst Baptist Church Hall, Rye Road, TN18 5PG, (on A268). FREE and OPEN to singers and instrumentalists for part or all of the day. Bring some lunch to share if you attend all day.

Due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation, rehearsals and public commitments are cancelled until further noitce. We hope to be able to rehearse again later in the year, and perform in 2021. Subject, of course to Government rules.


	2021
	Saturday, July 24th OR 31st	"Grand Day Out", giving short informal concerts in churches including: Peasmarsh and Fairfield
	Sunday, 3rd October	Carols Workshop, Tenterden Town Hall (part of the Folk Festival)
	Wednesday, 1st December	"Going the Rounds" Concert, Vestry Hall, High Street, Cranbrook. for the Cranbrook Museum and Local History Society.

	What we did in 2019
	Saturday, 6th April	Concert, "A Country Living", All Saints, Birling - pictures: interior & exterior
	Saturday, 13th April	Members of the Marsh Warblers took part in Three Quires' Day, a West Gallery workshop day held in Lewes, Sussex.
	Saturday, 11th May	"Grand Day IN" - our annual day workshop of sacred and secular music 10:30am-4pm, Sandhurst Baptist Church Hall, Rye Road, TN18 5PG, (on A268).
	Saturday, 28th September	Concert, "From May Day to Michaelmas" for Harvest Supper, St.John the Baptist, Wittersham
	Sunday, 6th October	Carols Workshop, Tenterden Town Hall (part of the Folk Festival)
	Saturday, 26th October	Members of the Marsh Warblers took part in Three Quires' Day, a West Gallery workshop day held in Lewes, Sussex.
	Saturday, 7th December	"Going the Rounds" Concert, Sandhurst Baptist Church, Sandhurst, Kent, TN18 5PG. (in aid of Starfish Malawi) We helped raise Ł370 for this excellent charity

Watch a video of us on YouTube singing Reginald Spofforth's glee "Hail Smiling Morn"

See pictures of our 2006 Church Tour of Wittersham, Northiam, Newenden, & Sandhurst 2008 Church Tour of Brenchley, Wateringbury, East Peckham & West Peckham 2009 Church Tour of Bonnington, Newchurch, St.Mary in the Marsh, & Brookland 2011 Church Tour of Smallhythe, Peasmarsh, East Guldeford, and Fairfield


What is West Gallery Music? Find out about the music we perform and how it got its name.	Georgian Churches What were eighteenth century churches like inside? - before the Victorians "improved" them!	Who was Henry Tolhurst? Read about an amateur composer from near Maidstone who struggled to make a living from his music and died aged 36.