We are a mixed voice amateur choir which, since 1980, has performed choral music to the highest standards under the Musical Directorship of Michael Sands, B.Mus, LLCM. Based now at St. Ambrose Church, Leyland in Lancashire, we have around 24 full-time members. Membership is open to anyone from secondary school age upwards. Throughout the year, The Rawstorne Singers deputise for various cathedral choirs as well as taking on a civic role within the city of Preston. As well as singing in services, the choir puts on three or four concerts a year, usually in spring, summer and at Christmas. The choir has been a registered charity since 1980 and has been a member of the National Federation of Music Societies (Making Music) since 1981.
Following a successful 2007-8 season, with several concert performances (including Haydn's Heiligmesse and the choral portions of Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace) and our summer visit (for some), a non-singing holiday in the Poitiers region of France, for a week in August, we embark on our 2008-9 season.
Our Christmas Concert was held in Tarleton on the 13th December and for our Spring Concert we are planning to perform a varied selection of music, including Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore, Haydn's Great Organ Mass and Rutter's Te Deum. The concert will be on Sunday, 15th March 2009, at St. Oswald's Church, Longton, beginning at 7:30pm.
We also made a Christmas appearance on Blackpool North railway station, singing to bemused commuters, on Saturday 6th December, and one supporting Sue Ryder Care 'Lights of Love', on 7th Dec at Cuerden Hall, Bamber Bridge. This year we have been invited to sing on Carlisle Railway station, courtesy of the Railways' Chaplain
Other plans for 2008/9 include singing services at Blackburn and Bangor Cathedrals, and a summer visit to St. Alban's Cathedral.
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