A review of last night’s concert at St Thomas’s Church in Wednesfield starring the Ashmore Park Choir, another full house with just under £1000 pounds raised for the Christian Aid charity.

Once more Terry Green as the Musical Director has put together another wonderful Christmas show, along with Ros Green as the accompanist and John Billau as assistant conductor. Some traditional and not so traditional carols and the now legendary extra acts to accompany these, The Cornopean Brass Ensemble with Gillian Edwards had its now traditional part to play with six great pieces played in the two halves, the witty readings by Geraldine Blanchette were funny, Denis Billau’s rendition of “Fields of Athenry” was excellent, Lizzie Watson our own Nick the Vic’s daughter was wonderful in her flute solo of  ”The Dance Of The Snowmen” and Clive Williams’s Dylan Thomas reading was lovely.

As always, Irene Dodd who Terry calls “The Bard of Wednesfield” gave a wonderful monologue this time on how the Angel got on top of the Tree in her usual Yorkshire style and received a very mighty round of applause. I must say that the soloist singers, Rita Williams, Sue Ridgeway and Steve Robtham were a credit to the choir and made the entire evening a joy, with the congregation all being able to take part in some of the carols made it a wonderful evening and one many people look forward to every Christmas.

And finally, the choir sang a lovely new Christmas Carol which was written by Terry Green himself, hopefully we will hear more of his own carols next year.

Thanks to Viv for this great article! If you’d like to write for WV11, please get in touch.

If you would like to find out more about the Choir, who spend a lot of time fund-raising for charities and raised over £1000 for Christian Aid last Christmas, please email Irene Dodd or just turn up at rehearsals which take place at 7:30pm every Monday at Coppice High School.

Ashmore Park Choir’s upcoming concerts:

• Friday 25th September at the Baptist Church Bilston.
• Saturday 10th October at St. John’s Church Essington.
• Friday 23rd October at Corpus Christi Ashmore Park.
• Saturday 28th November at The Community Hall in Moreton
• Tuesday 8th December St. Thomas’ Church Wednesfield

The choir look forward to meeting you either as a new member or as a member of the audience!