*tbf, it's only ever rained once in all the years we've been singing there...
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Polyphony Down the Pub
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Polyphony Down the Pub
@PubPolyphony
London's Favourite Night of Renaissance Motets & Booze! https://t.co/7gOOwtR8Rc Still on hiatus but hope to be back soon! See also @counterpint @PDtPBrighton
Waterloo, London, UK Katılım Ekim 2014
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It's that time again when those of you who are brave/mad enough to sing outside in the freezing rain* get the chance to do so!
That's right, we're putting on another #PDtPXmas extravaganza at the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree on Dec.24th!
Details here: polyphonydownthepub.com/2023/11/30/chr…
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@cabbagepatch66 Manchester is top of my list for trying to get something going outside of London as it was such a great night. Let's see if we can make something happen!
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@PubPolyphony Looking forward to (hopefully) reading your updates about the reinstatement of the pub singalongs. Joined your one held in Manchester which now seems many moons ago. Any chance of another ?
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Here's some good news to brighten your day - the #PDtPXmas carols at Trafalgar Square will be taking place again this year! Sunday December 18th, 5pm - details and registration here: polyphonydownthepub.com/2022/12/01/let…
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TIL that if you sing in the rain for 75 mins your music folder will end up resembling an ancient palimpsest! Huge thanks to the heroic singers who braved the non-stop downpour & brought seasonal splendour to the crowds at Trafalgar Square, making lots of money for good causes!
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@digitonal Maybe we'll tempt you back next year, Andrew!
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@PubPolyphony agh! I've moved to Suffolk now and Sunday I just don't think I could do. I miss pdtp so much.
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.@PubPolyphony, when happening in a pub, has a handful of spaces for non-singers which is appreciated. It's rather jolly being in an upstairs room in a pub with lots of people who *can* sing and sight-read as they're singing this youtube.com/watch?v=ZfHyPw…
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They need people who can read music and sing motets, chorales etc. Alas that isn't me (I can see that notes go up and down but that's about it), anyway the music is lovely. Would take me too long to learn and I'd oscillate around the staves rather than keep to my bit :)
Polyphony Down the Pub@PubPolyphony
Here's some good news to brighten your day - the #PDtPXmas carols at Trafalgar Square will be taking place again this year! Sunday December 18th, 5pm - details and registration here: polyphonydownthepub.com/2022/12/01/let…
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Would have loved it - but anchored in South Wales. If that applies to anyone else, can I suggest an alternative evening’s musical entertainment?
Polyphony Down the Pub@PubPolyphony
Here's some good news to brighten your day - the #PDtPXmas carols at Trafalgar Square will be taking place again this year! Sunday December 18th, 5pm - details and registration here: polyphonydownthepub.com/2022/12/01/let…
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@RuthElleson Thanks, Ruth - let's hope our singers don't make themselves hoarse cheering on England's victory at the Final beforehand!
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@PubPolyphony I wish I could join you, and I hope you manage to get a good group together, but that is (a) THE prime slot for most churches’ carol services, and (b) the World Cup Final…
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Should’ve been singing with this lovely lot tonight, but (as I mentioned a couple of days ago) it’s been cancelled - but you can still make donations to @ChoirwithNoName who we would have been collecting for.
Polyphony Down the Pub@PubPolyphony
3/3 We'd therefore like to ask all our friends & followers to consider making a donation: choirwithnoname.org/get-involved/d… Again, hugely disappointing not to be bringing Palestrina, Victoria & Bodenschatz to Londoners but your donations will mean something good comes out of it! Cheers!
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@carolinefiennes Reading this has brightened an otherwise miserable morning! All good here thanks and hope the same for you both!
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@PubPolyphony Hello hello!
How nice to hear from you again. Has been ages.
I took this screenshot recently, just for you! 🤣
Hope that you are doing great.
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@PubPolyphony It's only because you weren't offering gin that you were short of altos, of course
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Very sorry that this is cancelled because I was massively looking forward to dusting off my sight-reading skills (prep? Ha!) and holding down the basslines. Right move tho.
Polyphony Down the Pub@PubPolyphony
1\3 Very sorry to report that we've had to withdraw from Thursday's carols. Huge thnx to the 90 singers (90! incl. 16 tenors!) who had volunteered to sing & sorry to disappoint you all. Gutting not least because we wanted to raise money for our chosen charity @ChoirwithNoName.
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This was my “Gig #6” that got cancelled. Please read the thread that tells you how you can donate to the cause we should have been raising money for.
Polyphony Down the Pub@PubPolyphony
1\3 Very sorry to report that we've had to withdraw from Thursday's carols. Huge thnx to the 90 singers (90! incl. 16 tenors!) who had volunteered to sing & sorry to disappoint you all. Gutting not least because we wanted to raise money for our chosen charity @ChoirwithNoName.
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@PubPolyphony Gosh I'm glad I was already sitting down. It's been a *very* strange year.
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No word of a lie. We were at the point where if any more had volunteered we'd have had to turn them away!
Escafeld Chorale@EscafeldChorale
@PubPolyphony @ChoirwithNoName WHAT IS THIS '16 TENORS' THAT YOU SPEAK OF? I SUSPECT WITCHCRAFT.
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I think we would've been all right as I was going to ask some of them to help out the altos...
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@PubPolyphony @ChoirwithNoName 16 tenors would surely have made the choir unstable like certain nuclear isotopes with too many neutrons.
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3/3 We'd therefore like to ask all our friends & followers to consider making a donation: choirwithnoname.org/get-involved/d…
Again, hugely disappointing not to be bringing Palestrina, Victoria & Bodenschatz to Londoners but your donations will mean something good comes out of it! Cheers!
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2/3 @ChoirwithNoName does amazing work helping homeless & other marginalised people through the joy of singing. We've collected 100s of £s for them over the years & wanted to do so again this year but like so many others our plans have been thwarted by this ongoing crisis.
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1\3 Very sorry to report that we've had to withdraw from Thursday's carols. Huge thnx to the 90 singers (90! incl. 16 tenors!) who had volunteered to sing & sorry to disappoint you all. Gutting not least because we wanted to raise money for our chosen charity @ChoirwithNoName.
Polyphony Down the Pub@PubPolyphony
Like the Ghost of Christmas Past suddenly haunting your timeline, #pdtp is inviting you to join us for carols, chorales & motets at Trafalgar Square, 5pm on Thursday December 23rd. Details and registration here: polyphonydownthepub.com/2021/12/10/tap… #weareback #sortof #pdtpxmas
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