CONCERT BY THE MAIDSTONE SINGERS featuring John Rutter’s MASS OF THE CHILDREN ALL SAINTS CHURCH, MAIDSTONE SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28th at 7.30 p.m. In order to celebrate John Rutter’s 70th birthday year, The Maidstone Singers are performing the last major work he has written, namely his “Mass of the Children”. Though …
MAUREEN TROWBRIDGE Although Maureen was born in West Bromwich, she moved at six months to Hendon and has spent the rest of her life south of Watford. Maureen’s parents were both musical, and between them founded a community choir shortly after the war. Rehearsals often took place in their house. …
TIM COLSTON Although born in Somerset, where Tim spent much of his early childhood, he has lived in Maidstone on and off for almost 60 years. Tim comes from a musical family – his dad sang with MCU, and he got into singing early through his school choir at Maidstone …
The Maidstone Singers reprised their successful TV appearance in ‘Call the Midwife’ by dressing up as characters from the show and joining the Maidstone Parade on July 5th 2014. They performed their song from the show ‘May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You’ arranged by Jeffrey Vaughan Martin. The …
The Maidstone Singers have just returned from a very successful tour of Portugal and Spain. You can see a brief summary of the tour in the ‘Reviews 2014’ section of this website together with some photographs of the concerts themselves as well as a few more relaxed moments. Visit the AUDIO/VIDEO …
JULIE BALCHIN Julie was born in Hertfordshire, and at the tender age of 6 weeks was flying to live in Malaysia. This set the tone for much of her childhood variously living in Malaysia, Norwich, Hounslow, and Margate, and inevitably experiencing a few different schools. She was happiest at Brentford …
The Maidstone Singers appeared in the final episode of series 3 of ‘Call the Midwife’ on Sunday 9th March 2014 on BBC 1 as part of the ‘Poplar Choral Society’. They sang a version of ‘May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You’, arranged by Jeffrey Vaughan Martin, in the touching …
Diane was born into an Orpington family with two loves – music and motorbikes, these have stayed with her and a passion for arts and crafts have been added to make for an interesting mix. Diane’s first significant venture in music was at age 5 to join the Orpington Junior …
We are proud to announce that our Music Director, Jeffrey Vaughan Martin, has been awarded the accolade ‘Star of Maidstone’ for his outstanding contribution to the development and heritage of the performing arts in Maidstone. The presentation, based on votes by local residents, was made at the Celebrate Maidstone Awards Dinner on Friday 10th May 2013.
The Maidstone Singers have recently completed filming with the BBC and are to appear next year as a choir in the new series of ‘Call the Midwife’. We are unable to go into more detail about our role at this stage but…stay tuned! You may be interested in the following publicity release. …