The Cantate Choir

The Cantate Choir was formed at the beginning of 2002 since when it has performed varied music programmes to a high standard at venues in the Sevenoaks area. As a local amenity the choir aims to produce high quality work which gives it the opportunity to attract high calibre professionals to work alongside it. The choir was registered as a charity in 2004.

In 2006 the Choir's versatility was demonstrated with a performance of Mozart's Requiem in March as part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, followed in June by Poetry in Music, a concert of settings of poems by well-known poets. On Armistice Day, November 11 the choir staged Remember! featuring music and readings on the theme of remembrance and recollection. To round off the year it joined the Voce orchestra in December for the performance of all six parts of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.

In March 2007, the choir again teamed up with the period-instrument ensemble Vivace! for Baroque Masterworks including Vivaldi's Magnificat and Handel's Dixit Dominus.

Members of the choir are singers with some training and/or experience and admission is strictly by audition. If you would like to be considered for entry to the choir or would like further details of concerts, please telephone John Morris on 01732 810227, or visit our website at www.cantate-choir.info

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Green Street Blues
High class close harmony singing and infectious enthusiasm for the barbershop craft are the hallmarks of Green Street Blues, Sevenoaks ladies' a cappella singers. Formed in 1999 by former members of a LABBS award-winning chorus, we aim to maintain a varied and entertaining repertoire of songs ranging from popular modern music to traditional classics.

In the five years since we formed we have progressed rapidly, winning the LABBS Bronze medal in 2002 and 2003 despite having only 33 members. This year we are aiming for another medal at our annual convention in November - hopefully a different colour!

If you would like to book us for an event please contact, Alison Zdzylowski on  01732 764291. If you would be interested in singing 4 part harmony we would love to see you at a rehersal on Tuesday nights.

Visit www.greenstreetblues.org.uk

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The Kemsing Singers

The Kemsing Singers, founded in 1964 and based in the village of Kemsing, draws its membership of over fifty singers from the broader Sevenoaks district.

Rehearsals take place each Monday (September - May). The choir gives at least four main concerts each year under its musical director, Brenda Ross,with pianist Paul Woodward.

The choir’s large repertoire includes the major choral classics, but rather than rely on extended choral works, each concert includes shorter items, many from the lighter side of classical music and contemporary arrangements of songs and carols with opera and musicals also represented. Singers and audiences alike enjoy the variety.

New members are always welcome, and anyone interested should contact the Secretary, Gill Johnson on 01732 883903 or the Musical Director, Brenda Ross on 01732 45162.
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The Sackville Singers


The Sackville Singers are a Sevenoaks based choir that have been singing together and raising money for local and national charities since 1979. The choir has enjoyed the enthusiastic and inspiring musical directorship of Anthony Dawson since 1985 and performs music in a wide variety of styles, often accompanied by excellent local professional musicians.

Christopher Harris accompanies rehearsals which are always happy, lively occasions. The choirs friendly warmth transmits to an audience which has become used to enjoying its high standard of performance. The choir regularly performs in the Sevenoaks Summer Festival and gives concerts in Brasted, Knole and throughout West Kent.

Visit the choir under Arts & Culture at: www.beehive.courier.co.uk

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The Sackville Children's Choir
Anthony Dawson founded the Sackville Children's Choir in January 1991. It now numbers in excess of 60 children, aged from 7 - 14, who meet each Saturday morning in term time, at Solefield School, Sevenoaks. There are no auditions and membership is open to any child who enjoys singing.

The choir is extremely lucky to have Nicholas Quiney, Director of Music at Solefield School, as accompanist.

Children come from many different schools in the area, from as far a field as Tatsfield, Orpington, Plaxtol and Tonbridge.

Highlights of the choir's year are the annual Christmas concerts in the Great Hall, Knole, given on behalf of the National Trust; the staged productions; the Promise of Youth collaborations with Sevenoaks Strings and Lisa Maybank's Footprints Dance company, and the Sevenoaks Festival days in Bligh's Meadow.

The choir presented the world premiere of Irita Kutchmy's revised version of her as yet unpublished musical: The Magician's Nephew at the Stag Theatre on Saturday 17 April 2004.

The composer invited the singers to record some of the songs from the musical for a demo cd. She also saw the choir's production of her musical version of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe in 2003.

Contact the Musical Director, Anthony Dawson, 01732 455385 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for further information.

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The Warlock Singers

A chamber choir based in Crockham Hill, near Westerham.

The Warlock Singers, directed by Graham Dinnage, is named after Peter Warlock, the pen-name of the composer Philip Heseltine who lived in Eynsford in the 1920s. The Warlock Singers is a chamber choir of around 25 voices specializing in British music of all periods. In 2006, the choir commissioned and gave the first performance of a Christmas mass setting by the Kent composer Matthew King, at the Drive Methodist Church, Sevenoaks. The choir has been engaged by the Vaughan Williams Society and the Peter Warlock Society and performed in the Finchcocks Museum of Music ‘Midsummer Music’ series to a capacity audience in 2007.

See our website at http://www.warlock-singers.org for details of future concerts

The choir seeks to perform interesting and unusual repertoire to the highest standards on a few intensive rehearsals. These are held on different days of the week to accommodate singers’ other commitments. Singers interested in auditioning may contact the director on 01732 866372.

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Temenos
Conductor : Charles Vignoles

Temenos is an exciting chamber choir with a passion for exploring choral music from all periods from the Renaissance to the present day. Programmes usually include ‘a cappella’ early music of the 16th and 17th centuries, for which the choir has a particular affection.

Rehearsing in Sevenoaks and Shoreham, the choir gives three major concerts a year, culminating in the annual Shoreham Summer Festival, with occasional performances further afield.

If you have some experience of choral singing, are a competent sight-reader with a voice which blends, and would like to be considered for this highly sociable choir, please contact

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who will be delighted to give you further information.

Please visit temenos-chamberchoir.org.uk

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Sevenoaks Symphony Orchestra
Are you a local musician, or maybe new to the area? Looking for people to play with?

The Sevenoaks Symphony Orchestra rehearses on Wednesdays from 8pm until 10.15pm at the Sevenoaks County Primary School and gives 4-5 concerts a year.

If you would like more information about joining the orchestra, please contact the Chairman, Charles Hebert, on 01732 464218.

More information about us, including forthcoming programmes, can be found on the Beehive website.

To see information about concerts in our current season, please click on What's On

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The Sevenoaks & Tonbridge Concert Band
The Sevenoaks and Tonbridge Concert Band was formed in 1980 and is made up of players travelling from a wide area including such places as Tunbridge Wells in Kent, East Sussex and South East London as well as locally.

The Band plays at a number of venues throughout the South East during the summer months such as Bexhill, Eastbourne, Hever Castle and Folkestone. It also performs a number of concerts each year at the Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks and an annual Christmas Concert at one of the local churches. It gave its tenth anniversary concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London where it played to a capacity audience and has returned to the Queen Elizabeth Hall on two subsequent occasions. The Band celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2000 at the Stag Theatre in Sevenoaks.

The Band has also travelled abroad to countries including Malta, France, Spain, Tenerife and Mallorca and has strong connections with a German Band - Stadtkapelle Heusenstamm based near Frankfurt, and a French Band based in Lambersart, near Lille.

The Band rehearses every Friday night at Christchurch Hall, London Road, Sevenoaks (opposite the Halfway House Pub and close to Sevenoaks Railway Station). It also organises regular training weekends.

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The Sevenoaks & Tonbridge Training Band
A Band for Beginners, called The Sevenoaks and Tonbridge Training Band, rehearses every Friday from 6.15p.m. to 7.30p.m. at Christchurch Hall, near Sevenoaks Station. Beginners of any age are welcome, and experience shows that membership of the training band noticeably accelerates the musical development of a beginner. Players with little previous experience can soon find themselves of a high enough standard to move on to the main Concert Band.

The Training Band performs annually at the Sundridge Fete, and at a Carol Concert at Christmas, and sometimes gets opportunities to perform at other suitable venues.

Anybody interested in joining either band should contact the Musical Director, Trevor Edwards on 01322 862783

Visit the Sevenoaks and Tonbridge Concert Band website

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Sevenoaks Music Club

Bringing Wigmore Hall performers to Sevenoaks

Founded in 1933 by a group of Chamber Music enthusiasts, the Sevenoaks Music Club is proud to have introduced to local audiences musicians who have gone on to become acclaimed worldwide.

Our concerts are by professional musicians, both well established and those on the threshold of their careers, and two concerts a year by international artists.

Box Office: Richard Hargreaves 01732 453251 for individual tickets or our Brochure which comes out in August with an application form for a fantastic value Season Ticket at £48 for our 6 Concerts. Accompanied children get a free concert.

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The Listening Room
Sevenoaks. Enquiries 01732 460143

Jazz Cabaret on the first Sunday of each month at 8pm.

Visit www.listeningroom.co.uk

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Blues With Bottle Club
Venue: The Anchor, London Road, Sevenoaks

Top quality live (and free) blues on the first Wednesday or every month - and occasionally the 3rd or 4th.

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The Eynsford Concert Band
The Eynsford Concert Band is a community based wind band that is broadening its musical horizons under the leadership of John Hutchins.

Rehearsing in Eynsford on a Tuesday evening, we currently have vacancies on trumpet, french horn and percussion for players of Grade 6 standard
and above.

For further information, please call Paul Gould on 07831 320905, or visit our website at eynsfordconcertband.co.uk
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Sevenoaks Philharmonic Society
Our concerts, performed with orchestra and professional soloists and conducted by Robyn Sevastos take place at the Sevenoaks Playhouse and St Nicholas Church, Sevenoaks.

We are a friendly choir and would welcome new members of all voice parts.

Interested? Contact our Membership Secretary, Margaret Day on 01959 575752

Alternatively, please visit our website: www.sevenoaks-philharmonic.org.uk