Membership

Rehearsals are held on Wednesday evenings from 8:00pm. until about 9:45pm., starting in September and continuing into May. We rehearse in the Hoylake Chapel Hall, which is next to the Chapel proper, on the corner of Station Road and Meols Drive, Hoylake. 

Music is provided or members may purchase their own copies, which the society can often obtain at discounted rates.

There is a subscription for members of £60, (a concession rate of £55 applies for pensioners and each member of a couple if both join, the unemployed  rate is £30, and students free). The subscription covers the cost of running the society, which includes the hire of the rehearsal hall and music. It is payable by October each season.

We normally perform two main concerts each year, one in November and the second towards the end of April. We also stage a Family Carol Concert in  December; this is usually with the help of a choir from a local school. Details of our concert programme can be found on the Concerts page.

Concert dress is long-sleeved white (not cream) blouse without glitter, long black skirt or black trousers and black shoes for the ladies, and dinner jacket or dark suit, white shirt, black shoes and black bow tie for the gentlemen.

In order to plan the stage layout effectively, the stage manager needs to know well in advance who intends to sing in the concert. Members will be asked to inform their respective part registrar during rehearsals of their intention. Only those members committed to sing in the concert should attend the final two rehearsals that are held in the concert staging location. These last two rehearsals are critical both musically and to enable the stage seating to be finalised before the concert.

All members, whether intending to sing in the concert or not, are welcome to join in the fun of the rehearsals except for the final "dress rehearsals". Members are asked to bring a pencil to rehearsals so they can reversably annotate their parts if necessary. Members using hired music should return the hired copies to the Librarian at the end of the concert or brfore if they are not singing.

If you think you might like to join us just come along to one of our rehearsals and introduce yourself to the membership secretary or one of the people wandering about (probably arranging chairs or handing out books, etc.). However, if you would like some more information first, contact the

Membership Secretary,
Lawrie Schonfelder,

or the

Chairman,
Kate Wootton,
Phone: 0151 632 3124
email: Info@HoylakeChoralSociety.org.uk