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Pearl Anniversary 2010

We are proud to be celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2010. Throughout the year we have a packed calendar including competitions, events, shows, workshops, bookings, regular fun social outings and more.
We will be competing at LABBS convention, and defending our gold medals at Hazel Grove Music Festival and the Manchester Amateur Choral Competition. Watch this space for updates as we travel through the year.

For more details visit the 'Singing events' page.

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Barbara King
(Lead)

"I saw what a great time my other half was having singing barbershop and finally plucked up courage to go along to a Crystal Chord rehearsal. I needn’t have worried - all the chorus members were so welcoming and helpful that I soon felt at home.

Nearly nine years later I have a fun and varied social life with a great bunch of people. The Thursday rehearsals are hard work but fun - just what you need to de-stress your day. I’ve sung at some fabulous venues including Manchester Cathedral, St Nicholas’ Church in the main square in Prague, Llangollen Eistedfodd, and the RNCM. I would never have thought my first rehearsal would lead to where I am now."

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We'll be opening the festival on 11th June, from 7.30pm, with the Sale Brass Band.
For tickets, visit salefestival.org.uk.
See you there!

Crystal chords is an exciting and dynamic harmony chorus.

We perform with energy and style at competitions, shows, special occasions and community events. Our 4-part unaccompanied songs include contemporary, traditional, show themes, pop, barbershop and carols. We have featured on local and national media and live audience comments include 'incredible', 'diverse' and 'a chocolaty wall of sound'.

Crystal Chords is over 50 women, well established in Greater Manchester and proud to be supporting The South Manchester Down's Syndrome Support Group in 2010. For more information, visit http://www.dsmanchester.org.uk/

If you want to know more information or to provide feedback, explore the site or contact crystal.chords@yahoo.co.uk

And if we can't persuade you to hire or join us, perhaps these talented and wise people can:

“Sing, Sing a song, Sing out loud, Sing out strong, Sing of good things, not bad, Sing of happy, not sad, Sing, Sing a song, Make it simple, To last your whole life long, Don't worry that it's not good enough, For anyone else to hear, Sing, Sing a song.”
Joe Raposo

“When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.”
Monserrat Caballé

“I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.”
Britney Spears

“Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.”
Rabindranath Tagore

“I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.”
Maria Callas

“I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation.”
Frank Sinatra

Chorlton
Crystal Chords at Chorlton Arts Festival 2009.

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