You’ll never walk alone – a charity fund raiser promise from the Northampton Male Voice Choir raising money for the local Samaritans group. The NMVC delivered a performance with contrasts of both tenderness and power in a programme that explored a variety of popular songs with love at their heart. Thanks to the generosity of the Northampton Borough Council, the stunning Great Hall in Northampton’s Guildhall was the elegant backdrop for a wonderful evening’s entertainment which also included a number of beautiful operatic love arias and popular show classics from the Choir’s guest performer Callie Jo Denbigh.
Callie is Northampton’s very own local jewel, a professional mezzo-soprano who also coaches the Male Voice Choir to help them achieve their objective of becoming one of the best male voice choirs in the country.
Musical director Stephen Bell took the choir through it’s paces with three new songs performed for the first time by the choir in a concert. The focus in 2016 is to quickly expand the repertoire of songs sung from memory and to attain another significant step up in the quality of performance. The new material was well received judging by the enthusiastic applause from the audience.
A delightful evening of song was brought to a close with a combined performance of You’ll never walk alone featuring the choir and the soaring angelic voice of Callie Jo Denbigh and a trio of much loved songs from Les Miserables by the choir all accompanied by NMVC’s remarkably talented pianist Sue Rayment..
The evening was closed by Dave Atkins on behalf of the local Samaritans who thanked the choir and its supporters for their sterling efforts in putting on the concert to support the magnificent work of the Samaritans volunteers who help so many to know that they never have to walk alone.
The concert raised over £2800.