THE GOOD AFTERNOON CHOIRS

2023 - Our fundraising concerts are underway!

It’s time to SING and join a CHOIR!
Hello - We are the Good Afternoon Choirs – FUN Community Choirs that sing in the AFTERNOONS across the West Country! As you can see from the pictures on this website, we enjoy making music and performing at concerts and raising money for many local organisations and charities. There are NO AUDITIONS and previous singing experience is not important – if you enjoy singing in the car, or at home …? Why not come along and find out what singing in an afternoon choir is like - bring a friend - everyone welcome! There is no charge for your first “meet us” rehearsal! Our picture above shows the Frome GAC in action recently at the Assembly Rooms in Frome with Matt out front - they raised £724 for the bells at Woodlands St Katherine Church. Our picture below shows the South Gloucestershire GAC at Kingswood in front of a packed church supporting Alzheimer’s U.K. Other recent concerts were with Bristol GAC and guests the Bristol Military Wives Choir raising a superb £580 for their chosen charity, Gympanzees. Our Wells GAC performed with the Cheddar Male Choir also raising a magnificent £532 for the PAPYRUS charity. North Somerset GAC, with guests Pill Festival Band, raised £344for the Children's Air Ambulance and our Bath GAC raised £400 to enable a new music therapy group for Parkinson's sufferers living in the City - their guests were the talented Curtain Up Theatre School. All the benefitting charities or local groups are chosen by the members of the choirs. Many more concerts in the months ahead and full details can always be found on our concerts page

No Auditions - Come Along and Meet Us

The Good Afternoon Choirs are a community project led by Bath music man Grenville Jones - www.grenvillejones.biz where the accent is on fun, social, singing for people who have afternoons free! You do not have to worry about travelling to rehearsal in the dark, you will be home for the 6 o'clock news! The music varies from unison folk songs through to popular and well loved pieces in harmony. All our choirs offer a very warm welcome to existing and NEW members and if you are reading this after seeing us on Facebook or other media channels, you can find out more about the choir nearest you below. You do not have to wait or join any of our choirs at the start of a new term, simply come along to ANY rehearsal - your first is always FREE and to find out more A WARM WELCOME AWAITS!

Concerts Coming Soon...
See our concert page for a full list of whats happening and where.
We look forward to welcoming you to one of concerts in the months ahead and we are currently planning fundraising concerts for all of our choirs across the West of England, sharing our concerts with various guests.

What's New?

Following our amazing Big Sing at Bath Abbey last year we will be holding similar events at Wells Cathedral on November 15th and Truro Cathedral on August 12th.
The leaders of our Good Afternoon Choir (NOT Devon or Cornwall) will bring booking forms for you all when you return after Easter. Full details will be on the form including booking your workshop place and evening concert tickets for your family and friends. Details of coaches will also be included on this form.
For those of you who are members of our Devon and Cornwall GACs we will be in touch soon with details of the ‘Cornwall Sings’ day which will be held at Truro Cathedral.

Here's your weekly guide to a 'Good Afternoon' of singing...
Reading music and previous choir experience is simply not important. Good Afternoon Choirs are all about community singing and they perform at concerts and enjoy music making and, making new friends. Membership is a termly fee to include music and all this will be explained on the member’s form when you come along to find out for yourself about the Choir in your area.

The Good Afternoon Choirs are a project led by Bath music man Grenville Jones - www.grenvillejones.biz where the accent is on social, singing for people who have afternoons free! There are now 22 Good Afternoon Choirs across the South West and more will follow this year, 2023... please click on their individual pages for more info:

MONDAYS
Bristol Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at Westbury on Trym Methodist Church with John Sandford
Frome Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at Holy Trinity Church, Frome with Matt Finch
South Somerset Good Afternoon Choir from 1-3pm at Wincanton War Memorial Hall with Ruth Jenkins
Truro Good Afternoon Choir from 1-3pm at Truro Methodist Church with Andy Farris

TUESDAYS
Cirencester & Stroud Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at Cirencester Baptist Church with John Sandford
Taunton Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at Temple Methodist Church with Chris Grabham
Wells Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at St Thomas Church, Wells with Grenville Jones
Chippenham & Calne Good Afternoon Choir from 1-3pm at Pewsham Community Centre Association, Pewsham, with Matt Finch
Mid Devon Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at Crediton Congregational Church with Jon Rawles
Churchdown (N.Glos) Good Afternoon Choir from 12.30-2.30pm at Churchdown Community Centre with Laurie Jones

WEDNESDAYS
Keynsham Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at Keynsham Methodist Church / Victoria Centre with Grenville Jones
North Somerset Good Afternoon Choir from 1-3pm at Nailsea Methodist Church with Ruth Jenkins
South Gloucestershire Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at Kingswood Community Centre with Matt Finch
Yate & Chipping Sodbury Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at St Mary's Church, Yate with Sian Walters
Malmesbury Good Afternoon Choir from 1-3pm in The Old School Room, Malmesbury Town Hall with Corrie Darker

THURSDAYS
Bath Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at our NEW VENUE Widcome Baptist Church, Bath with Grenville Jones
North Swindon Good Afternoon Choir from 1-3pm at St John's Haydon Wick, Swindon with Sarah Summers
Thornbury Good Afternoon Choir from 1-3pm at Thornbury URC, Thornbury with Brendan Casey
Norton Radstock Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at Midsomer Norton Methodist Church, High Street with John Sandford
Newquay Good Afternoon Choir from 1-3pm at St Michael’s Church, Newquay with Andy Farris

FRIDAYS
Devizes Good Afternoon Choir from 2-4pm at St Andrew's Church, Long Street, Devizes with Grenville Jones
Falmouth Good Afternoon Choir from 1-3pm at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Western Terrace , Falmouth with Andy Farris
Warminster & Westbury GAC at The United Church (Methodist/URC), George Street, Warminster with Tanya Davidson

If you live in any of these areas and want to know more, we would love to hear from you email: gac@grenvillemusic.co.uk or tel: 01761 472468

You can also find us on Facebook - www.facebook.com/TheGoodAfternoonChoirs

A FANTASTIC DAY AT BATH ABBEY!
AN AMAZING £1,121 RAISED FOR THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
Hundreds of members from across our Good Afternoon Choirs descended on Bath Abbey on Thursday November 10th for an Afternoon Workshop led by Matt Finch (pictured above), Laurie Jones and Grenville Jones. The workshop was followed by a MASSED GAC performance based on the afternoon workshop in an EVENING CONCERT. Guests included, the celebrated City of Bath Male Choir, the Bath Welcome Chorus and the Norland Nannies and the evening concert raised a wonderful £1,121 for the Royal British Legion.

OUR 2023 BIG SING WILL TAKE PLACE AT WELLS CATHEDRAL ON NOVEMBER 15TH

Our choirs are led by a group of extremely talented musicians and we would like to introduce the conductors who lead our Choirs across the South West...

Pictured from left to right (top row) - Andy Farris, Sarah Summers, Brendan Casey, Jon Rawles, Ruth Jenkins, Matt Finch and Sian Walters
(bottom row) John Sandford, Tanya Davidson, Grenville Jones, Chris Grabham, Corrie Darker and Laurie Jones.