Petersfield singers Michelle Day, Mark Hayward and Julien Cousins will be joining the TakeNOTE chamber choir in Yuletide, an early celebration of Christmas.
The concert will take place at Holy Trinity Church, in Upper Brook Street, on Monday, December 6.
Yuletide is a concert to celebrate the season in all its guises, from the sacred to the commercial, from the depths of winter to the hope of light and warmth to come.
Julien, Mark and Michelle are part of the TakeNOTE chamber choir.
The choir’s repertoire of carols and songs includes pieces from the English and Celtic folk traditions, new words to an old TV theme, Thomas Tallis and Thomas Hardy in an unlikely but beautiful duet, and a sublime carol conceived on a Hampshire pub crawl in the 1920s.
The concert is a fundraiser for Key Changes, a unique, life-changing charity which provides music therapy for children with special needs, and for older people affected by dementia.
Tickets are £8 or £7 for Friends of TakeNOTE, and details are available at the website www.takenotechoir.com
The Hampshire-based TakeNOTE chamber choir normally present two concerts a year, which are fundraising events that benefit local charities. The music director is professional singer Carolyn Robson, who studied at the London Royal Academy of Musicand has a number of albums to her name.
She has made numerous club, festival, radio and TV appearances in the UK and has hosted song workshops.