Manchester Amateur Choral Competition

Choir placed Second .The Saddleworth Male Voice Choir competed in the inaugural Manchester Amateur Choral Competition held at the Royal Northern College of Music on Saturday 22nd November. A total of 15 greatly varied choirs from as far afield as London and Devon each sang a 15 minutes programme of unaccompanied songs. The Saddleworth choir sang five songs and their performance of the spiritual My Lord What A Mornin’ was judged the best performed piece of the whole competition but after almost half an hour’s deliberation over first and second place, the Chairman of the Panel of Adjudicators Jeffrey Lawton, Senior Lecturer in Vocal Studies at the RNCM placed the Saddleworth choir second by less than a half mark to the British Barbershop Champions Cottontown Chorus from Bolton. The Saddleworth musical director Damian Cunningham said his choir’s excellent performance was the culmination of a lot of hard rehearsal work from the whole choir and a wonderful team effort, and the rest of the competitors and the audience had gone away in complete admiration of the choir’s dedication to traditional male voice singing     .

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