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Dress Rehearsal 2024
We are busy preparing for this years Region 31 Sweet Adelines International convention, which is being held in Sheffield this May.
We would love you all to come along and watch our dress rehearsal on Saturday 27th April 2024. Doors open at 4:00pm for refreshments.
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Our Eastbourne Retreat
Our wonderful hobby takes us on many adventures, and we love it! February 2024, we spent a weekend in Eastbourne at our first ever VDC
retreat. We were lucky enough to be joined and coached by the very talented and
extremely lovely Sandra Lee Riley.
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Christmas Concert 2023
Is it even Christmas without a Vocal Dimension Christmas Concert?
We are thrilled to invite you all to an evening of festive tunes and carols sung by the current International Silver medallists Vocal Dimension Chorus. This year we will be hosting the concert at a different venue - St Mary's Church in Reigate.
Tickets are £10 and are available from any member of Vocal Dimension.
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Beetle Drive
Join us at 7.30pm on Saturday 29 July for an evening of good old-fashioned fun at the very first VDC Beetle Drive!
Beetle is a simple but incredibly fun game of chance. It involves the random throw of a dice, the creation of several hand drawn beetles, prizes and guaranteed laughs!
There will be a bar & a few snacks available.
Tickets are £10,
get yours here |
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Stars and Stripes cash prize raffle
Grab yourselves some raffles tickets to be in with a chance of winning £250,
£100 or £50! If you would like to buy some tickets please email us at
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your contact details & the number of tickets you would like. The drawer for the raffle will be made on Tuesday 26th September 2023.
More details here! |
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It’s 2023 - the year we head to Louisville to represent the UK
and Netherlands in the Sweet Adeline International finals!
As one of just ten choruses from across the world who have qualified to
compete in the 'Harmony Classic' it's a real honour and very exciting. If you would like to help us on our way to Louisville, please use
our gofundme page to donate.
We are so grateful for this opportunity and thank you so very much for your support.
Donate here please |
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Sweet Adelines 2022 Convention We had
a wonderful time at the Region 31 Sweet Adelines Convention which was held in
the impressive Warwick Arts Centre. It was also a real treat to sing a couple of
our favourite songs in the Saturday evening show. The whole weekend was full of
wonderful live music, catching up and spending time with friends
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Quizzical Fun It feels like an aeon since we've had a chance to dust off our thinking caps and flex our intellect!
So this is a little 'save the date' notification for you all to pencil Saturday 25th February in your diary, spread the word and start rallying your teams 'cause the
VDC Quiz Night is back! |
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Christmas with Vocal Dimension 2022
We always have a great time at Christmas with so many fun sing outs at such great places.
Our Christmas Together concert was a very chilly, icy evening but we had such a fabulously festive time.
We were able to spread some festive cheer lovely staff & residents at Ridgegate
Home. We also sang at the Home Cottage pub in Redhill, so welcoming with
it's pretty, twinkly Christmas tree and warm open fire. We ended the year
singing on top of the O2 not once but twice! Our final event was the VDC
Christmas party. See all the fun here. |
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Christmas Together An evening of Christmas music with Vocal Dimension and our wonderful friends The Include Choir.
We just know that our 'Christmas Together' concert will be an evening full of
festive fun & Christmas joy! Tickets are £10 including a mince pie. Tuesday
13 December, at 7.30pm at St John the Evangelist Church, Redhill
RH1 6QA.
Get your tickets here! |
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Do you like to sing?
Have you ever considered joining a choir? Do you fancy singing a cappella?
Then why not pop along to our Open Evening on Tuesday 21st June at 7.30pm at St Johns Church, Redhill.
Join us in a fun taster session. |
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Sounds of Celebration Enjoy an evening of live music and entertainment with
Vocal Dimension and special guests
Saturday 8th October. Doors open at 7pm
St John the Evangelist Church, Church Road, Redhill, Surrey
RH1 6QA.
Click here for more details |
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A weekend of cracking coaching
We have had a superb weekend of barbershop coaching from the dynamic, delightful
& super-duper duo Nancy Kelsall & Sandra Lea-Riley. We were a wall of energy,
sound and enthusiasm. See more here |
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Back on the risers After an epic 707
days, we are finally back on our Risers. We have been so lucky to have continued
singing during the past 2 years whether virtually, outside in the elements or
socially distanced in church pews. But there really is nothing like
singing on our risers.
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Vocal Dimension back performing live
After 2 years we have finally been able to take part in a handful of live
performances, which has been an absolute joy! Our first event being at the
Ideal Home Christmas Show.
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Back at St John's Church It’s been a long road but we are absolutely delighted to be back rehearing in St John’s Church, Redhill.
Sensible precautions are still being observed but the joy of being able to sing indoors has really lifted our spirits.
We are now busy working on new music and relishing the sound and
soaring harmonies. |
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Inside at last!
After 10 weeks rehearsing outside, in all weathers, we are finally meeting inside!
We are very fortunate to have a large, airy, Covid-safe venue and also some previous experience of
safely rehearsing inside.
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Christmas Music and Festive Cheer
Our festive celebrations started this year with a Christmas Concert Facebook Live-stream direct from our glorious rehearsal venue
St. John's church.
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Live Stream - September Song Concert
Join us from the comfort of your own home as we LIVE STREAM our September Song
concert on Tuesday 21st September at 8.30pm. We will be singing together LIVE
from our beautiful rehearsal venue, St Johns Church. You will find us streaming
live from our
Facebook page. |
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Make Music Day 2021
This year for Make Music Day on 21st June we shared our version of ‘Hold On’ which was recorded live at rehearsal. We may be outside but we are together, making music
and having fun doing it, which is certainly something to celebrate! #makemusicday2021.
Listen here |
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From Zoom to the outside world
As restrictions have started to be lifted, we have taken the opportunity to
move our weekly rehearsals from zoom to the outside world! We have been able to
meet in the grounds of the church and spend a couple of hours, each week,
singing together. See more here. |
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Vocal Dimension's Unsung Champion
At this year’s virtual regional convention, we were delighted to nominate Claire Miskin as
our Unsung Champion.
Claire serves as the Marketing and Communications Coordinator on the Management Team, and this is the
main reason for her nomination. |
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Christmas Music and Festive Cheer Every
year we are lucky to get the chance to share our Christmas music and spread
festive cheer all the way through December, to lots of different audiences. On a
Tuesday evening in December we were able to broadcast our mini Christmas Concert
live on Facebook from St. John's Church, for anyone and everyone to enjoy!
Watch here |
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The Frog Chorus Song This is our very special version of the Paul McCartney and The Frog Chorus Song ‘We all stand together’. A song that really does resonate during this testing time. It was created from scratch during lockdown.
Jump in here |
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Winter Wonderland Vocal Dimension
are spreading a little joy & festive cheer this Christmas with our version of
'Winter Wonderland' arranged by Nancy Bergman.
Merry Christmas everyone. |
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Make Music Day 2020
This year for Make Music Day on 21st June we shared our version of ‘Lazy Day’ which was recorded
with three choruses on three continents, Metro Nashville, TN, USA, Endeavour
Harmony, Sydney, Australia and Vocal Dimension UK. #makemusicday2020.
Listen here |
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Virtual Dimension Chorus Due to the
current situation we are unable to meet and rehearse as normal. However we are
embracing all things technological and are running our rehearsals online. Why not pop online to meet us and see what we are all about?
Just send us an email or contact us via
Facebook
and we will arrange access to one of our Virtual Dimension Chorus rehearsals.
We hope to see you soon! |
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The Big Climb 2020 Who has some stairs at
home, place of work or perhaps in your local park? Well, why not get climbing
those steps and get involved with the NSPCC's #BigClimb
fundraising event! |
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75th anniversary of VE Day To celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day we share a little video re ordered via Zoom
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Lockdown, but not Shutdown! We are well & truly in the swing of our weekly virtual rehearsals. With the magic of technology we can still enjoy singing together. We have also put together a collection of filmed moments from our time at home, as well as some best-loved VDC memories that we have collectively saved on our camera rolls.
Join in here |
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Our new home We are on the move!! After a little over 9
and a half years rehearsing at the Warwick School, Redhill we are moving on to pastures new.
We’re only moving about a mile up the road to the beautiful St Johns Church,
Redhill.
RH1 6QA |
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10 Years Of Song *** Postponed *** In light of the ever developing Covid-19 situation it is, with a heavy heart, that we have made the very difficult decision to postpone our 10th Anniversary concert until later in the year.
We will arrange for refunds to be actioned ASAP. |
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Quizzical Fun *** Postponed ***
A new date will be announced shortly. All those who have paid for their tickets
will be reimbursed in due course. Please accept our apologies for the change of
plan but rest assured we will be announcing a new date very soon - so watch this
space. |
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Christmas Concert 2019
Santa hats, mulled wine, festive treats, music, laughter and a lovely big audience. What more could we have wished for on our first ever VDC
Christmas concert? See the fun here. |
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Christmas with Vocal Dimension 2019 Vocal Dimension always have a great time at Christmas with so many fun sing outs at such great places.
The Ideal Home Show, on top of the O2, even local pubs...
See what we've been up to here! |
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Christmas Concert
Join us for a wonderful evening of Christmas music on Tuesday 10th December 2019 at 8pm The concert will be held in our beautiful new venue, St John’s the Evangelist Church, Redhill.
Buy your tickets here |
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Sweet Adelines 2019 Convention Another convention and another really fantastic weekend! We had a super time on stage and are incredibly proud of our TWO medals! We achieved our highest score ever at 613 and came away with a 2nd place mid-sized Chorus medal and our 4th place overall medal.
Find out more here |
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St Catherine’s Hospice We had such a lovely day singing in the gloriously sunny Priory Park, Reigate, for one of our favourite charities, St Catherine’s Hospice, and their new HeART to Heart art trail.
See more here |
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International Education Symposium 2019 The Sweet
Adelines International Education Symposium was held in the UK. Twenty one VDC
members were lucky enough to be able to make the trip to Manchester and immerse
themselves in 4 days of outstanding education. |
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A fond farewell to Kay Griggs-Wright We would
like to wish Kay Griggs-Wright a fond farewell as she moves on to pastures new.
Kay has been a barbershop singer for around 35 years and VDC has been her home
for a little over 9 of those years. |
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Coaching with Judy Pozgay What better way to
follow on from a weekend of exciting education & coaching at IES 2019 than more
education & coaching at rehearsal!! We are very grateful that the lovely Judy
Pozsgay made a small detour, on her way home, to sprinkle some of her magic!
See the fun here |
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Emilie & Joshua's wedding We had a truly wonderful time singing for Emilie & Joshua on their Wedding Day held at Christ Church in Brockham. It really was a beautiful ceremony and such an honour to sing for Emilie & Joshua on their special day.
See more here
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Coaching with Kim
Team VDC have truly had the most incredible coaching weekend with the amazing Kim Wonders.
With Kim’s help we have discovered a whole host of wonderfully exciting things.
Read all about it here |
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Quizzical Fun - The Results A huge thank you to everyone who came along to
the VDC Quiz night. Another terrific evening. The room was brimming with an impressive array of foodstuff (cheese seemingly this years nibble of choice!)
See the photos here |
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Rising Stars Day We had the most
wonderful day at our first ever Rising Stars workshop. What a joy to spend the
day learning, sharing, singing and having a ton of fun with a group of
fabulously, enthusiastic young singers. See the fun
here |
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Valerie to receive International Award
We are incredibly proud to say that VDC Musical Director, Valerie, is to be this year‘s recipient of the Sweet Adelines International Ann Gooch Award.
Details here |
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Dress Rehearsal 2019 We are busy preparing for this years Region 31 Sweet Adelines
International convention, which is being held in Cardiff this May. Everyone is
invited to watch our Dress Rehearsal and enjoy an afternoon of musical
entertainment, tea and cake! Find out more here |
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Quizzical Fun Join us for the
only-once-a-year, fabulous evening of quizzical fun with a little entertainment
thrown in from Vocal Dimension Chorus! Friday 22nd February 7.30pm Betchworth
Village War Memorial Hall, Station Road, Betchworth, Surrey RH3 7DF.
Tickets here |
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Rising Stars Workshop Saturday 2nd February 2019 Are you a Gal who loves to sing? Are you aged between 12 and 25? Ever thought about giving a cappella a try? Then why not come along to our free Rising Stars Workshop and learn to sing in 4-part harmony Saturday 2nd February 2019 10am to 4.30pm.
More details here |
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Singing on top of the O2 dome Singing Christmas
carols on top of one of London’s most iconic landmarks on a bitterly cold, rainy
December afternoon proved to be one of the most exhilarating and frolicsome gigs we’ve ever done!
See more here |
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Ben and Hannah's wedding
Our hobby is pretty fantastic a lot of the time but having the honour to sing at someone’s wedding really is something very, very special.
See the glorious day and we had with Ben and Hannah
here.
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Reigate and Banstead Arts Council Take Part Festival We are proud to be participating in the the BRBAC (Reigate and Banstead
Arts Council) Take Part Festival in 2018. The festival is designed to share and
promote the amazing talents and opportunities involved in the arts across the
whole of the borough. Find out more here |
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Open Evening We held an open
evening for potential new members recently. If you are interested in joining, or
you know someone who would love to sing in four-part harmony
with our award-winning group, then come along
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London A Cappella Festival 2018
We were very excited to have the opportunity to sing in the Saturday afternoon
Showcase at the London A Cappella Festival. We had a fabulous time and would like to say a big thank you to the many people who came up afterwards and gave us lovely feedback.
See the A Cappella fun here |
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Manorfield Primary School
Manorfield Primary School in Horley very kindly allows us to use the school premises for special rehearsals or coaching sessions. We were delighted to be asked to visit an Assembly to teach the youngsters to sing in four part harmony – and to have some fun!
See it all here |
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Nova Quartet Nova quartet competed recently at #LABBS18 Quartet Contests Prelims in Birmingham.
We are delighted to report that they qualified for the finals in Harrogate on Friday 26th October.
Pictures here |
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Ruby Wedding celebration
Following VDC’s surprise performance at a Ruby Wedding celebration on Sunday, we
received a really lovely email from the happy couple.
Read it all here |
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Chipstead Flower Show Gala Dinner
We enjoyed a beautiful evening, singing at a black tie event in support of Chipstead Flower Show.
Several lovely guests came up to tell us how much they were enjoying our performance.
Pictures here |
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Vocal Dimension at the Ideal Home Show
We had an exciting day performing at London’s Ideal Home Show. Our two 45 minute sets gave us the opportunity to share most of our full repertoire with the audience – and with the many passers-by who stopped to enjoy the show.
See the whole day here |
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The Hangleton Brass Band and Vocal Dimension
Hangleton Brass Band recently invited us to share their concert at the lovely St. Nicholas' Church in Brighton.
It was a feast of music with lots of laughter, and we and the audience enjoyed the evening immensely.
Photos here |
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The Hangleton Brass Band and Vocal Dimension
Come along on Saturday 19th May for an evening of superb live music with the Hangleton Brass Band and Vocal Dimension!
From 7pm to 9pm, at St Nicholas’ Church, Church Street, Brighton BN1 3LJ.
Tickets at the door: £5, under 12s free. See
more here |
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Sweet Adelines 2018 Convention
At May’s Sweet Adelines International Region 31 Convention at The Sage, Gateshead, we had a ball performing our 2-song competition set, and came off stage elated, feeling we’d ‘left it all out there’ – even moving our Musical Director, Valerie, to tears.
Details here |
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2018 Dress Rehearsal all done!
We had a fabulous day with coaching from Joanna Tomlinson, followed by our mini show and Dress Rehearsal. Now we're all ready for the Quartet of Nations Region 31 - Sweet Adelines International UK & Netherlands' contest at the Sage, Gateshead, on 12th May 2018.
Photos here |
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Caterham Oxted and Godstone Lions Club Show
We had a truly wonderful evening at the Caterham Oxted and Godstone Lions Club charity show - performing for an exceptionally warm and appreciative audience, in the lovely theatre at Caterham School.
Read about the show here |
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Dress Rehearsal 2018
Come along and give us a great send-off to the UK & Netherlands Sweet Adelines
International Contest at The Sage, Gateshead. The mini show is free and will
include our 2 new contest songs and performances by our fabulous quartets.
See the free fun here |
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International Certified Sound Judge
We are immensely proud of our phenomenal Director, Valerie. After more than five years’ dedicated work, she is now a Sweet Adelines International Certified Sound Judge – the first outside the Americas ever to achieve official SAI Certified Judge status!
More news here |
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Caterham Show
Caterham Oxted and Godstone Lions Club proudly presents a charity concert
featuring Vocal Dimension on Saturday 7th April 2018 at 8pm Caterham School
Harestone Valley Road, Caterham, CR3 6YA. Get
your tickets here |
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Ideal Home Show
Come and see us at the Ideal Home Show on Sunday 18th March 2018. We're performing for 45 mins at 10am and 3pm, on the Feel Good Stage.
The Feel Good Stage is located on the first floor on the crossover between the National and Grand Halls in the Ideal Shopping section.
Get
your tickets here |
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Quiz 'n' Chips The Results
Our sell-out 4th Quiz n Chips was punctuated by the sound of head-scratching, cheering, munching - and a bit of singing!
Huge thanks to everyone who came along - and to all involved in making it happen.
See the results here |
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Happy Birthday Vocal Dimension
We had an especially fun rehearsal on 16th January, celebrating our eighth birthday and presenting our wonderful Musical Director, Valerie, with thank you cards and presents
and cake! See the fun here |
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Quiz 'n' Chips
Our Quiz 'n' Chips night was such a fantastic success that we're doing
it all again on Friday 16th February 2018 at 7pm. Tickets are just £10 and include entry to the quiz, a fish and chips supper plus a little bit of VDC entertainment.
Find out more here |
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Reigate Priory Museum
On Saturday 9th December, we enjoyed a very merry return visit to Reigate Priory Museum.
We performed for a lovely audience, at a Charity Music Concert in the Holbein Hall, complete with amazing acoustics.
See the fun here
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Charity Concert
We had such an enjoyable Saturday night, performing to a packed audience at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints in Crawley.
With songs from VDC and our quartet, The Humming Birds, and a sextet including 2 of Four Effect.
Read more here
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Christmas in Dorking
Come and see us as we ring the Christmas bells in Dorking on
Tuesday 19th December 2017!
7.45pm The White Horse, High Street
8.30pm The Cricketers, South Street
9.15pm The Old House, West Street
Details here
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Gherkin Challenge 2017
We had an exceptionally fun day, once again, supporting the NSPCC's Gherkin Challenge, singing to congratulate each group of fundraisers after they'd climbed to the top of the iconic London City building.
See the view here!
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St Catherine's Hospice fund raiser
On Sunday 24th September, we had a hugely enjoyable day, taking part in the #HorshamAmeriCARna event in aid of St Catherine's Hospice.
See the fun here
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St Matthew's Church, Redhill
A 'compact', perfectly-formed VDC group was very honoured to sing at the final lunchtime concert at St Matthew's church in Redhill this week – they've been running concerts there for 45 years!
See more here
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Charity Music Concert
Saturday 4th November 7:00pm at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, Old Horsham Road, Crawley, RH11 8PD.
Also Playing Include Choir.
There is no requirement to book or purchase a ticket. Just turn up on the night -
the more the merrier!
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St. Johns College Cambridge
Vocal Dimension were pleased to perform at the Privacy Laws & Business 30th Annual International Conference at St. Johns College Cambridge.
Read more here
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Sweet Adelines
2017 Convention
Vocal Dimension headed north to the Sage in Gateshead for the Sweet Adelines International Region 31 Convention: 'a celebration of the best of women’s barbershop singing in the UK and Netherlands'.
Watch the fun here
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Birthday celebrations
with the Include Choir
We felt honoured to join in the first birthday celebrations of the Include Choir this week. They performed some of their fun songs to an appreciative audience, including Mayor, Cllr David Powell – who revealed a hidden talent for playing air guitar!
Details here
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Sing and Sign in the park
A wonderful evening in June - very warm, in both senses! - at our joint event with the very lovely Include Choir and SASH choir members, celebrating Make Music Day UK.
See some sunny pictures here
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Barbershop on the BBC World Service Vocal
Dimension Chorus were proud to be singing and talking Barbershop on the BBC World Service, and firing up the entire planet with excitement for the forthcoming SAI convention in Las Vegas.
Listen here |
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Skipton Building Society’s Grassroots Giving
The organisers say there were 38,000 votes cast amongst the shortlisted groups, and competition was really tough.
We've just heard that we're one of the 163 winners!
Find out more here |
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Sing and Sign
To celebrate Make Music Day UK, we and the Include Choir will be singing together at the café in Redhill Memorial Park.
Admission is FREE, and all are very welcome, come along and enjoy the fun with us.
Wednesday 21st June 7.30-8.30pm
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Dress Rehearsal all done!
A huge thanks to all who came along to our recent Dress Rehearsal. It was fabulous having such a packed audience.
See us here
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Sparkly good luck on 12 & 13 May!
Break a lip to all of the Quartets and
Choruses competing in SAI Region 31 (UK & Netherlands)
competition. If you'd like to follow our Contest performance
(and the other choruses' & quartets') at the Sage ... you
can via the official webcast!
Click here for times and
links
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Dress Rehearsal 2017 Come along and give us a great send-off to the UK & Netherlands Sweet Adelines
International Contest.
Saturday 22nd April 2015, 5.00-5.45pm
The Warwick School, Noke Drive, Redhill RH1 4AD.
Come and see the fun
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Quiz 'n' Chips - The Results VDC excelled itself at our now-annual Quiz n Chips night. Created by the awesome Miskin family, and superbly organised by Anita (with lots of willing helpers), it was such fun – and mind-blowingly informative!
See the results here |
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Christmas Tree evening in St John's Church
A lovely time singing at the Christmas Tree evening in St John's Church, North Holmwood, near Dorking.
The church looked absolutely magical, beautifully lit and flanked by lots of lovingly decorated little trees.
Read more here |
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Christmas Gift Fair -
The Day
What an amazing day we had at our Christmas Gift Fair - and the sun even shone for us! Lots of visitors, smiles, singing, buying, face painting, raffling, and a bit more singing!
See the fun here |
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Christmas Gift Fair
Come along to Reigate Community Centre on Saturday 3rd December, between 12.30 & 4.30pm, and feast your eyes on a wide selection of wonderful Christmas gifts, decorations, cards & stationery and feast your tummy, too!
Find more details here |
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Show Time Concert We had the most wonderful evening at our ‘Show Time’ concert! The sell-out event was a resounding success, and it really was a magical experience performing favourite songs from our repertoire.
See more here |
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One Voice - A Path to Peace
We are VERY proud to be a part of the "One Voice" choir! The single "A Path to Peace" which features Vocal Dimension as well as the Military Wives, the Royal Harmonics and soloists from the British Army, Royal Navy and RAF has just been released!
Details and video here |
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Las Vegas 2016 - 2nd in the world
We are absolutely delighted to return from the Sweet
Adelines International Competition in Las Vegas with a
silver medal! We loved every minute on stage at the MGM
Grand and had such a great reaction from the audience,
including a standing ovation at the end!
Click here to watch our
2nd-in-the-world performance |
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VDC off to Las Vegas We are so excited to be heading to Las Vegas to compete in the Sweet Adelines
International competition! If you want to watch us on the
webcast, we’ll be on stage at 2.20am, very early in the
morning on Wednesday 19th October:
www.sweetadswebcast.com |
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Going for Gold We need your
help to bring back the International GOLD MEDAL for the UK. We would be eternally grateful for any help you can give, and offer our 'rewards' as a heart-felt thank you for your kind donations to help us come back with that precious GOLD!
Please see our crowd funding page here |
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The BIG Stars & Stripes Raffle 2016
Our 2016 Stars & Stripes cash prize raffle is officially launched! If you would like to help support our journey to represent the UK at this year’s Sweet Adelines International finals in Las Vegas.
Buy your tickets now |
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VDC Vegas Send Off! With lots of immensely helpful feedback following 'VDC Vegas: The Premier!' in August, we've been furiously polishing our package. It's now in fabulous shape for our dress rehearsal on Saturday 1st October.
See us live here at the Noke
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Las Vegas Party
Dig out your bling and join us for a wonderful night of fun, food and frolics!
Saturday 17th September 7.30pm – 12.30am. Woodcote Park Golf Club, Tickets: £25 per person
Buy your tickets now |
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Harmony Spa Day Everyone had a fabulous day at our relaxed and energising Harmony Spa 'pamper day' in Reigate.
From Reiki to foot care, a wide selection of treatments was offered.
See the fun here |
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Quiz 'n' Chips - The
Results Our 'Quiz n Chip' night was a huge success!
We had an amazing 18 teams challenged with 5 rounds of questions, music intros, anagrams & a picture quiz, the atmosphere was buzzing!
See the winners here |
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What a great way to
spend Valentine's Day What a great way to spend Valentine's Day...doing what we LOVE! Thank you so much to Capital Chorus for inviting us to sing on your show in such a beautiful church.
Details here |
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East Surrey Macmillan Cancer Support Centre It was a real honour to sing at the grand opening of the East Surrey Macmillan Cancer Support Centre. The event was hosted by BBC TV news presenter Nicholas Owen.
Find out more here |
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Las Vegas 2016
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we will be competing in the Harmony
Classic Division A competition in Las Vegas in 2016!
Find out more here |
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Curry & Karaoke Night! Tickets are now available for a night of good food, good fun and good entertainment.
Tickets are £12 and will include a chicken or vegetable curry as well as an evening of fun entertainment.
Held at 'The Limes' pub in Mersham, Surrey on the evening of Friday 15th April.
Buy Tickets here |
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Pamper Day Relax, revive & feel alive
during a very special pamper day. We have 5 therapists offering a range of
treatments. A delicious Lunch or afternoon tea is also available. Saturday 21st
May between 11am – 4.30pm. Book now |
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Show Time 2016 We are proud to
announce our first show in 2016!
See the award winning Vocal Dimension with special guest artists live in concert
on Saturday 12th March 2016 7.30pm. St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, Reigate RH2
7RN.
Get your tickets here |
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Quiz 'n' Chips
Last years Quiz 'n' Chip night was such a fantastic success that we're doing
it all again this year on Friday 19th February 2016 at 7pm. Tickets are just £10 and include entry to the quiz, a fish and chips supper plus a little bit of VDC entertainment.
Find out more here |
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UK's finest ensembles to headline on Valentine's Day
Tagline and Vocal Dimension will sing at St Barnabas Church, Pitshanger
Lane, on 14 February 2016 for a special Valentine’s Night
concert. Details here |
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Happy 6th Birthday Vocal Dimension We are a whole 6 years old!!! And what a fabulous 6 years we have had. Such a fun celebration rehearsal last night with balloons, lots of laughter and some truly delicious homemade cake.
See the celebrations here |
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Happy New Year from Vocal Dimension 2016 is here!!! And what a year it promises to be. Thank you to all our friends and family for their continued support throughout last year. Here's to a wonderfully
exciting 'Vegas' year. |
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Merry Christmas from Vocal Dimension Here is our Christmas wish to you...as well as the gift of a song! It's one of our favourites and we are delighted to be able to share it with you - enjoy!
Listen Here |
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Our Christmas CD
Help Vocal Dimension Chorus fundraise by buying
one of our Christmas CDs. There is a really good mix of
all your Christmas favourites. A great stocking filler for family
and friends. Buy
yours here
Special
price of just £5 inc P&P (UK only) |
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YMCA Celebrations It was a true delight to be invited to sing at the YMCA South East's Celebration Dinner. Such a lovely, fun and lively audience who certainly enjoyed our after dinner entertainment.
See the fun here |
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Gherkin Challenge
We spent a beautiful sunny Sunday in London singing at the NSPCC's Gherkin Challenge. A great event raising funds for a very worthy cause.
See the challenge here |
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One Voice Project
We are really privileged to be involved in a very, very special project
involving the North London Military Wives choir, a Fijian choir and the Royal Harmonics chorus.
Watch this space |
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Christmas Crafts Enjoy a homemade lunch and an exciting selection of Christmas gifts, handmade and original crafts, Christmas cards and stationery, cake and refreshments.
Saturday 5th December from 12.30-4.30pm Full
details here |
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Brockham Fair
Fun times in the glorious sunshine at Brockham Village Fair! The village green
was packed with picnic rugs, gazebos and lots of people having a wonderful time.
We had a fab time!
See all the fun of the fair here |
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A Perfect Day
We have many talented women in our chorus and on Saturday 27th June we added
Celebrant and wedding singers to the list.
See more here |
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Wray Common School
A small group from Vocal Dimension sang for the children at Wray Common School
at their Tuesday morning assembly. They loved joining in with our counting
exercises and a 4 part version of "How much is that doggy in the window".
Learn more here |
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Convention 2015
We had the most wonderful weekend. Here's a little film of Team VDC making happy memories, winning TWO medals & having the best time!!!
See the fun here |
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Dress rehearsal done!
A huge thank you to the wonderful Åse Hagerman for injecting some of her fabulousness. And also to our forever supportive friends and family. We had so much fun working on our contest set.
See us here |
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Happy Birthday Vocal Dimension
We celebrated our 5th birthday in January! How did we celebrate? With an evening
of wonderful singing, much laughter, lots of learning & THE most fabulous cake
made by our lovely lead Alison. Happy Birthday Us! |
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Audience Choice Award Winners
Proudly presenting our 2nd place Div A International medal & our Audience Choice
Award. With a score of 1270 we placed 2nd out of all 10 Harmony Classic
competitors. It's been a truly amazing experience. Thank you so much for
everyone support. What a journey! |
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Choiroke
We are thrilled to be taking part in this year’s Choiroke at Dorking Halls on Saturday 21st March at 7.30pm.
Get your tickets here |
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Quiz 'n' Chips!
We're now all quizzed out after a fabulous evening of trivia, brain teasers, anagrams and fish and chips!
The scores were super close but our very own Amanda and her team pipped everyone to the post!
See the pictures here |
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Quiz 'n' Chips
We have a super entertaining date to your 2015 diary, the 'Quiz 'n' Chips' night
on Friday 16th January. With bags of fun trivia and a tasty fish & chip supper.
Get your tickets here |
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Christmas Crafts
Lots of VDC joy was spread at our Christmas Craftacular! THANK YOU to those who came to support us - we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
See more here |
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Warlingham's Christmas lights switch on
A festive air filled Warlingham on Saturday as the village came to a standstill
for its Christmas lights switch-on. Vocal Dimension helped provide the Christmas
carols.
Christmas is coming! |
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Christmas Carols in Dorking and a date for 2015
Come and see us as we ring the Christmas bells in Dorking on Tuesday 16th
December 2014! Details here
'Quiz 'n' Chips' night on Friday 16th January. With bags of fun trivia and a
tasty fish & chip supper. Tickets here |
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Christmas in Dorking
Come and see us as we ring the Christmas bells in Dorking on Tuesday 16th
December 2014!
Ding Dong in Dorking |
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Christmas Crafts Enjoy a homemade lunch and an exciting selection of Christmas gifts, handmade and original crafts, Christmas cards and stationery, cake and refreshments.
Saturday 29th November from 12.30-4.30pm Full
details here |
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Open Rehearsals in Baltimore
If you're in town, please pop in to our open rehearsals. All times are local (EDT).
Sun 2nd November, 1-3pm. BCC Room 327-329
Mon 3rd November, 9-11am. Hilton Hotel, Key Ballroom 3
Full schedule and details here |
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Baltimore Webcast
Whilst we are in Baltimore our wonderful friends, family and supporters back home can watch us LIVE on stage!
Watch the webcast here |
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Baltimore Dress Rehearsal A huge
thank you to everyone who came to show their support today at our Baltimore
Preview.
Having such a big, friendly audience was so valuable & incredibly enjoyable!
See the pictures here |
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Ewshot Village Show Our VDC scarves were certainly sparkling in the beautiful sunshine at the Ewshot Village Show.
We had a wonderfully warm welcome and thoroughly enjoyed singing on the stage (a wibbly-wobbly
converted truck!)
Read about the show here |
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Sweet Adelines 2014 Convention
Wow what a weekend! Region 31 is incredible - full of
amazing talent & super supportive friends. Being lucky
enough to appear on stage not once, but twice was a huge
honour.
See our convention
performance |
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Baltimore Preview
Would like to invite all of our friends and family to our Baltimore Preview
In only a matter of weeks we will be heading to the USA to represent the UK in the Sweet Adelines
International Finals! See us here |
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The BIG Stars & Stripes Raffle Results!
We had such a great response to our Stars & Stripes raffle. A huge thank you to
Park & Bailey who very kindly sponsored the raffle and to everyone who supported
us by buying a ticket.
Raffle Results |
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Spring Fever
Vocal Dimension glowed at our Spring Fever show and, along with our guests, we
lit up the wonderful St Mary's church with song and dance on a beautiful spring
evening!
See our Spring show here. |
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Sounds of Summer Show
We had a wonderful time performing on the Sounds of Summer Show with the Surrey Fringe Chorus at the Electric Theatre in Guildford.
Sounds of Summer Show |
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Sounds of Summer
See Vocal Dimension Chorus perform live at the Electric Theatre, Guildford
Town Centre, Onslow Street, Guildford on Sunday 22nd
June 2014 with performances at 4:30pm and 7:30pm. A
Charity Concert in aid of The Prostate Project.
Read more here |
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Vocal Dimension in Baltimore
2014
Vocal Dimension has returned triumphant from the UK
competition winning a Gold medal in the small chorus
category and securing a place in the Sweet Adelines
International Convention being held in Baltimore, USA in
November 2014. Read more here. |
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Happy 4th Birthday Vocal Dimension
A special rehearsal with lots of fun, Vocal Dimension style! HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY to us!
Yay, Happy Birthday to us! |
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BBC Radio Wales
Valerie, Morgaine and Emma and from Vocal Dimension were
invited on to BBC Radio Wales to talk about Barbershop
singing and most importantly, Vocal Dimension!
Listen to us here. |
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Coaching with Dale Syverson
Our journey to Baltimore has become all the more wonderful with a weekend of inspiring coaching from Dale Syverson.
A weekend with Dale. |
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Woodcote Grove House
We were delighted to sing for the residents of Woodcote Grove House, the care home where one of
our members works as a physiotherapist, on the evening of 19th September 2013.
Read more here. |
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Vocal Dimension get
Christmassy
What a festive fuelled weekend we have had! We delighted the crowds singing lots
of festive songs and soaking up the Christmas atmosphere. After such a busy
weekend we are all most definitely feeling very festive!
Read more here. |
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Christmas Craftacular
The Christmas Craftacular was a festive filled success! Lots of goodies, delicious food, Christmas songs & happy faces.
Thank you to everyone who popped in - we hope you all had fun!
Read more here. |
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Christmas Craftacular
VDC hosted and performed at the 2013 Christmas Craftacular on Saturday
30th November from 12.30pm to 4.30pm in The Reigate Community Centre.
Beautiful handmade and original crafts were on sale.
Read more here. |
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Hungry for Harmony
On a Saturday evening in October, members and friends of the Reigate Hill Rotary Club were hungry for harmony! They had invited Vocal Dimension Chorus to help support local charity by weaving
their special brand of a cappella magic at a concert in St Mary’s Church, Reigate.
Read more here. |
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Baltimore Ball
Join Vocal Dimension and friends at our fund raising
Baltimore Ball on Saturday 23rd November from 7.30pm -
1am.
Read more here. |
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Ready Steady Cook
Pampered Chef Ready Steady Cook is a Fundraiser in aid of Vocal Dimension & our Baltimore Fund.
On Thursday 7th November 2013 at 8pm
Southlands Church, Horley.
Cost £2.50 (to include refreshments and food tasting)
Read more here. |
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Vocal Dimension and the Reigate
Rotary Club
Vocal Dimension will be in concert at St Mary’s Church, Reigate at 8.00 pm on Saturday 26 October 2013.
All proceeds will go to Food Banks and other local charities.
Read more here. |
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Cake-appella
Cake-appella, is a fundraiser we are hosting for Fortuity Quartet, our current regional champions,
on Sunday 20th October at the Reigate
Methodist Church Hall, as they prepare to compete in the Sweet Adelines International Convention in Hawaii later this year!
Read more here. |
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Harlequin Gala Concert
We were honoured to top the bill at the Gala Concert held at The Harlequin Theatre, Redhill on 12th September 2013.
Read more here. |
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Vocal Dimension at the Sweet Adelines 2013 Convention We
have returned triumphant from the UK competition winning a Gold medal in the small chorus category and securing a place in the Sweet Adelines International Convention being held in Baltimore, USA in November 2014.
Read more here. |
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Vocal Dimension live at The Capel
Music Festival We had a fantastic time singing
at the Capel Music festival. Glorious sunshine, food, drink and music to suit all tastes – plus the opportunity to
help raise £4,500 for St Catherine’s Hospice – what could be better?
Read more here. |
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Chaldon Rise Vocal Dimension had a great time on Saturday 17th August entertaining residents and guests at the Chaldon Rise Care Home's summer BBQ!
Read more here. |
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Reigate and Redhill Gala
Concert Vocal Dimension will be performing in
an evening of music, dance and drama featuring top local
talents at the Reigate and Redhill Gala Concert.
Thursday 12 September at 7.30pm, Harlequin Theatre
Warwick Quadrant, Redhill.
Read more here. |
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Live at the Rotary Club of Reigate Hill Vocal Dimension a cappella chorus, directed by Valerie Taylor, were certainly the stars of the Handover Dinner of the Rotary Club of Reigate Hill.
Read more here. |
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The Wedding Singers! We
had the joy of singing at Becky and Dean's wedding
service on the May Bank Holiday!
Read more here. |
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Sounds of Spring Show There may have been snow on the ground but Spring was certainly in the air at our ‘Sounds of Spring’ concert held in the impressive Redhill Methodist Church.
Read more here. |
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First International Approved Sound Judge in Europe At the end of January 2013, after 5 years, our fabulous Director was appointed the first Sweet Adelines International Approved Sound Judge in Europe.
Read more here. |
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The Harlequin Theatre It was a real honour to be invited to perform at the Harlequin Theatre, Redhill. Having recently undergone a huge refurbishment project the theatre was host to an exciting & talent fuelled evening.
Read more here. |
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Festival First!
Vocal Dimension Chorus has notched up another success in the Barbershop Class of the prestigious Bournemouth Music Competition Festival. We were thrilled to take first place and
to be proclaimed as “Outstanding” by the presiding judge, David Bruce-Payne.
Read more here. |
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Dress Rehearsal Mini Show! We are only a matter of weeks away from competing in the 2013 Sweet Adelines International Regional Convention and would love to share our performance with you before we compete at The Sage in Gateshead!
Read more here. |
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Sounds of Spring See Vocal Dimension Chorus perform live at Redhill Methodist Church at 7.30pm on Saturday 23rd March 2013. A charity concert in aid of MHA Live at Home.
Tickets £7
Read more here. |
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Coaching from the fabulous Joan Boutilier We have just had a wonderful weekend full of snow, song and superb coaching from the fabulous Joan Boutilier.
Read more here. |
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Happy 3rd Birthday Vocal Dimension Wow! We are 3 years old!!!! We celebrated in true VDC style, fabulous music, lots of laughter and an amazing, amazing, AMAZING cake.
Read more here. |
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Singing in Trafalgar Square
under the BIG tree For the grand finale to this year’s Christmas performances we spent an unbelievably festive and incredibly fun evening in London - by quite literally rocking around the Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square!
Read more here. |
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Reigate Priory
We were privileged to give a performance in the wonderful historic setting of Reigate Priory at the Museum Volunteers' Christmas Concert.
Read more here. |
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Christmas with Vocal
Dimension Vocal Dimension always have a great time at Christmas with so many fun sing outs at such great places...
Read more here. |
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Christmas Crafts Fair The Vocal Dimension Christmas Craft Fair was organised with clockwork precision at the Reigate Community Centre.
The Fair was loaded with brilliant craft stalls, great gifts and fabulous cakes.
Read more here. |
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Trafalgar Square
Vocal Dimension will be merrily singing festive songs under the BIG Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square in London on Tuesday 18th December from 7pm to 8pm.
Read more here. |
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Christmas Crafts Enjoy a homemade lunch and an exciting selection of Christmas gifts, handmade and original crafts, Christmas cards and stationery, cake and refreshments.
Saturday 24th November - 12.30-4.30pm
Read more here. |
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Open Mic Night Vocal Dimension enjoyed a night out at the pub
to give much appreciated and very Vocal support to VDC Bass, Nicky Blumfield.
Read more here. |
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Coaching with Mo What a wonderful evening of coaching we had with the inspirational Mo Field, Director of Stockholm City Voices chorus.
Read more here. |
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Lucinda's Fashion Show Following on from our sell-out ‘Fashion Fusion’ event
we are now supporting Lucinda's at a Fashion Show
at Surrey Downs Golf Club, Monday 8th October 2012 at 7.30pm
Read more here. |
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Fashion Fusion
Our sell-out ‘Fashion Fusion’ event was a complete success! It was a magical evening full of style, colour, energy and fabulous live music.
Read more here. |
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Jubilation
Any opportunity to celebrate and Vocal Dimension are there! We joined the rest of the British public this weekend in the Jubilee festivities and had a great time performing at two events!
Read more here. |
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Vocal Dimension at the Sweet Adelines Convention
2012
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A very excited Vocal Dimension took to the stage
in the 2,500 seat Symphony Hall, Birmingham for the
Sweet Adelines 2012 Convention and were delighted to
scoop the silver medal in their category for the
second year running!
Read more here. |
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Dress Rehearsal
Well the countdown has begun – we are now
only a matter of days from Sweet Adelines, Region 31,
Convention 2012
Read more here. |
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A fantastic coaching weekend!
What a fantastic coaching weekend we had. The wonderful Joan Boutilier
was simply inspiring.
Read more here. |
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As featured on the Chris Evans Radio
2 breakfast show! Vocal Dimension Chorus were very
excited to be on BBC Radio 2. We sent a recording of us
singing Happy Birthday to the host of the show to celebrated
our joint 2nd Birthdays. Read more here. |
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Happy Christmas Vocal Dimension Style! We sure know how to party! Great food, great drink, great singing and most of all great friends!
Read more here. |
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Vocal Dimension get Christmassy
Vocal Dimension have got the Christmas Spirit!
Our audiences at Polesden Lacey and in Reigate Town Centre at the Winter Fayre were great and enjoyed singing along with us!
Read more here. |
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The Fox Revived Garden Party
We had a super time soaking up the last of the summer rays and
entertaining a fun audience! It was great to be able to debut
some of our new songs too!
Read more here. |
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Singing at Reigate Methodist Church
What a fun morning we had entertaining at the Reigate Methodist Church, and the rain stayed away - just!
We hope to be back singing at the brand new Community Centre soon!
Read and see more here. |
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Rotary Club - London
We were delighted to be invited to provide the after dinner entertainment at the Rotary in London ‘Paul Harris Fellowship’ Dinner held at the Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London.
Read more here. |
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Christmas 'switch-on' at The Belfry
The Christmas 'switch-on' at The Belfry, Redhill was quite a
festive spectacular with explosions of snow and streamers, 8
foot angels on wheels, and of course Vocal Dimension Chorus!
Read more here. |
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From Zero to Hero
Valerie Taylor talks about the benefits of being part of Making Music
and the opportunities it has given the Chorus, including singing London's Roundhouse last March.
Read more here. |
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Race
for Life
We took to the Epsom Downs Race Course on the hottest day of the year and joined four thousand like-minded women in the 'Race for Life'. We raised a superb total of £2000. Read more here.
Read and see more here. |
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Vocal Dimension at the Sweet Adelines Convention
We have just returned from the Region 31, Sweet Adelines
Convention held at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham. We are
thrilled to announce that we came away with a 2nd place small
chorus medal! Read more here. |
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Singing at the Roundhouse
What a fabulous time we had at The Roundhouse, London. TV's
Gareth Malone watched our performance!
Read more here. |
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Vocal Dimension at The Fox Revived
We had a brilliant time singing at the Fox Revived. Great fun, great venue, great audience and great chance to give our competition songs an airing for Convention
Read more here. |
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Red Nose Day
At this weeks rehearsal we were lucky enough to enjoy the delights of Lesley's 'Red Nose' cakes and raised a total of £40.00 for Comic Relief.
Read more here. |
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Quiz Night
We had a great time at the Sutton and Croydon Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre
fund raising quiz night. One of our members works at the
Centre so we were pleased to be able to enter two teams.
Read more here. |
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Happy Birthday Vocal
Dimension
From a small handful of music loving ladies to a fully fledged Barbershop Chorus - the past 12 months really has been the beginning of something very special.
Read more
here.
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Singing in Trafalgar Square
What a wonderful end to the festive season for Vocal
Dimension - singing under the Christmas tree in
Trafalgar Square with our friends the London City
Singers!
Read more
here. |
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Warwick School
Carol Concert |
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Vocal Dimension Chorus Spent a very merry
evening singing at the Warwick School Carol Concert.
Such fun singing along with the traditional carols
as well as entertaining the congregation with some
festive harmony singing.
Read more
here. |
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Singing next to the Christmas tree
in Reigate
What a fantastically festive afternoon we have had singing next to the Christmas tree in Reigate.
Read more
here. |
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Great British Barbershop Boys on Radio 2
The Great British Barbershop Boys' debut album Christmas Time
is a collection of classic Christmas songs arranged to
perfectly suit the unique and memorable barbershop sound.
Read more
here. |
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First Management Team Meeting
Toasting Vocal Dimension's very first Management Team meeting.
Read more
here. |
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Singing in the rain
We had a great time "singing in the rain" at the Reigate Methodist Church! A great fundraising event for the church project.
Read more
here. |
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Rockin' Radio Redhill!
What a great way to spend a wet "summer" afternoon - being interviewed live on Radio Redhill's Sunday Colour Supplement show!
Read more
here. |
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Singing at the Warwick School
We enjoyed being guests at The Warwick School Show! From talented Year 5's rockin' Sweet Child O' Mine to our rendition of 'Rhythm Medley' and 'San
Francisco
Bay Blues', it was a diverse evening!
Read more
here. |
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Bournemouth Music
Festival On a beautiful day in early July, the chorus competed in the Bournemouth Music Festival, a prestigious British festival featuring a class for barbershop groups.
We were absolutely delighted when it was announced
that we had placed 3rd in the competition.
Read more
here. |
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The Pitch Pipe Lite
Check out Vocal Dimension's article on page 4 of the Sweet Adelines International magazine Pitch Pipe Lite!
Read more
here. |
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Radio Redhill
We had a blast singing and being interviewed live on Radio Redhill! Great coverage and another opportunity to 'Have Fun Making Music Together'
Read more
here. |
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A Morning with Encore! Founder members of Vocal
Dimension Chorus bring barbershop to the younger members of
our community.
Read more
here. |
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The ultimate in high tech coaching
One of the challenges faced by choruses and quartets
is how to organize coaching at a time that suits
both the chorus or quartet and the coach.
Read how Encore! have used
technology to help. |
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Surrey Mirror interview
Vocal Dimension were
delighted to be interviewed by the Surrey Mirror - lots of
fun, great publicity and some new faces as a result!
Read more about it
here. |