FERNHURST Choral Society will be holding its next ‘Come and Sing’ day at St Mary’s Church, Petworth, next weekend.

It will feature choruses from Karl Jenkins’s The Armed Man, a piece premiered at The Royal Albert Hall in April 2000.

Fernhurst Choral Society, a mixed-voice choir, was formed in 1953 to sing at the village pageant in Fernhurst to celebrate the Queen’s coronation.

The following year the society performed and competed at the Petersfield Musical Festival and the choir’s association with the festival has continued so that it is now the largest single choir taking part.

Doors open at 1.30pm, for this month’s event on Saturday, April 21. Rehearsals start at 2pm. The day concludes with an informal performance at 5.45pm.

Tickets cost £10 (plus £2 for score hire), and are available from [email protected] – you can also call 01428 654893 or visit www.fernhurstchoralsociety.org.uk/concerts

The choir is committed to collaborating with professional soloists and instrumentalists and normally performs three concerts a year.

In the past 10 years it has done exchanges with European choirs and in 2015 hosted Le Chant Sacré from Geneva in an all-Schubert programme in St Paul’s, Chichester.

In 2013, it founded the Fernhurst Chamber Orchestra (now renamed The Downland Sinfonia), a professional ensemble which accompanies many of its concerts.

The Downland Sinfonia will accompany Fernhurst Choral Society at its concert at St Paul’s Church, Chichester, on Saturday, June 9, in a performance of Verdi’s Requiem.

•Tickets are available from www.fernhurstchoralsociety.org.uk/concerts