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22nd September 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA
CAKE & CHOIR TASTER with Barry Community Choir. Don’t miss out – come along to St John Church, Barry Island at 7-8.30pm on 24th September 2025. Sit at the back and listen, or sing with us, as we rehearse some well-known old favourites as well as learn new songs for Autumn and Christmas events. After the singing there will be homemade cake and a cuppa and a chance to informally meet and chat with one or two friendly choir members so that you can find out more about Barry Community Choir. You must be over 18 unless accompanied by a parent/guardian. If you love to sing and want to join a choir where you don’t need to read music and there are no auditions, give us a try. There’s no obligation, just an opportunity for you to hear us sing, eat cake and get to know us in a relaxed setting. There really is nothing to lose but so much to gain.
21st September 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA
Ali is running the Cardiff Half Marathon on October 5th to raise funds for Barry Community Choir. At BCC we believe that good music should be available to everyone. So the money raised from this will be used to benefit singers and audiences alike in Cardiff and The Vale of Glamorgan. Choir funds help to keep membership subscriptions reasonable and allow us to offer a variety of discounts, help us buy music copies which we lend to members, help pay for professional music leadership so that we perform well, and help cover our costs of performing at venues and events which are either unable to pay themselves, or which raise money or awareness of other charities in our area.
Thank you, Ali, for helping us in so many ways to be the best Community Choir, and for going above and beyond to raise funds, even when your training has been hit by injury. And a great big thank you to everyone who has supported Ali and donated so far.
You can help Ali by donating at https://www.justgiving.com/page/ali-shone-12? Thank you .
19th September 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA
Check this out wherever you live👍 if you can get to Barry Island on a Wednesday evening. At Barry Community Choir we have the best set-up – with our professional singing coach and accompanist on hand at every rehearsal so we can learn from the best. You don’t need to read music or have experience of singing in a choir. You can find out more at our Open Evening on 24th September at St John Church, Barry Island at 7 – 8.30pm. Just come along with no pressure or obligation, you can even just listen to us sing while you consider whether you’d like to give us a try, and enjoy some homemade cake and a cuppa afterwards.
16th September 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA
Get the best value for your money and take the healthy option – swap your weekly cup of coffee or slice of cake for membership of Barry Community Choir. Singing in a community choir gives you a hobby that can build your confidence, that can help you be yourself, that can free your mind and body as stresses reduce, and that can help you give back to your local community at the same time. It doesn’t matter where you live, as long as you can get to St John Church, Barry Island at 7-8.30pm on a Wednesday evening, you can join Barry Community Choir and never look back.
15th September 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA
So Christmas is on the way and we’re starting to learn our new Christmas repertoire. Join us now to start the festive feels 🦌. We have some really exciting new pieces to sing as well as some traditional songs and carols. Being part of a Christmas concert is always special wherever we perform. Already booked in for IKEA Cardiff and RNLI as well as our own concert. Look out for us at a local supermarket too. Don’t get left behind – join us now. Come along to St John Church, Barry Island Wednesday 7-8.30pm – you’ll love it♥️🎶
14th September 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA
Did you find your new hobby yet? Health experts confirm singing is good for us – both physically and mentally, and singing in a group is even better! Take care of yourself the easy way – take up singing in a choir. Come along any Wednesday to St John Church, Barry Island at 7pm. You can just listen while you consider whether you’d like to give us a try. (You don’t need to read music or have experience of singing in a choir). We’d love to see you👍
And don’t forget, we have an Open Evening with cake and a cuppa and a chance to find out more about us on 24th September at St John Church, Barry Island at 7 – 8.30pm.
5th September 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA
What a great return to rehearsals on Wednesday. It was so good to be back and to welcome a few new faces. If you’re looking for a new hobby now the summer is drawing to a close, and maybe your children have returned to school, college or Uni, why not give us a try? There’s no need to read music – we can help you learn your part very easily, even in the comfort of your own home (or car if you’re a little shy). Just come along on any Wednesday evening to St John’s Church, Barry Island at 7pm – 8.30pm, when you’re welcome to just sit and listen or join in the singing as you feel comfortable; OR if you prefer, come to our Open Evening on 24th September to find out more about us and enjoy some free homemade cake🍰 🍰.
2nd September 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA
So we’re back! Back to start a new term with fresh music to learn. Come and join us on 3rd September 2025 at St John Church, Barry Island at 7pm – 8.30pm. No obligations, just give us a try.
19th August 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA
Don’t miss out! Last chance to hear our summer 2025 repertoire as the sunshine and singing continue on Barry Island😎 on Sunday 24th August. Coming to the end of a busy summer, and Barry Community Choir is singing once more in support of the wonderful RNLI. See and hear us at 1.30pm and why not enjoy a homemade cake at the same time? 🎶🍰
18th June 2025
NEWS
The summer is here! Our concert publicity has been launched and tickets are now on sale.
Enjoy “Blue Skies over Barry Island” on Saturday 19th July 2025 at 6pm with Barry Community Choir and our guest performers PODyS (Penarth Operatic & Dramatic Society – youth section).
The ticket price of £8 includes admission, a hamper raffle (over 18’s only) and refreshments after the concert. Under 14’s go free. Buy your ticket at the door or via the QR code below (will take you to our concert tickets on TryBooking.com/UK)
A £1 raffle will also be held (you can buy as many tickets as you like) and will be drawn in the interval.
All proceeds go to support the choir in its community-focussed performances.
Join us at St John Church, Barry Island for a 6pm concert start. Doors will open at 5.30pm.
See you there.
18th June 2025
(also posted on Social Media 15 June 2025 with link to Just Giving)
NEWS
Ali Shone is running the Cardiff Half Marathon on 5th October 2025 to raise funds for Barry Community Choir.
You can sponsor Ali through Just Giving online at http://www.justgiving.com/page/ali-shone-12 or speak to a member of the choir who will have a manual sponsor form where you can add your name and sponsor Ali.
We are so grateful to Ali for offering to run this half marathon and raise funds for us. We wish her all the best with this huge effort.
5th June 2025
NEWS
Barry Community Choir is now a registered charitable cause on “Just Giving” – the online fundraising platform.
This means we are now available through Just Giving to any fundraisers wishing to nominate the choir as a beneficiary for their fundraising activities.
Donators can also select us as beneficiaries for their cash donations. Just Giving even deals with Gift Aid where donators select.
8 June 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA POST
At our AGM we drew the winning tickets for our Great Spring Raffle. Winners were notified and prizes presented. A great big to everyone who donated prizes and to everyone who bought a ticket. Funds we raise mean that we can keep our membership affordable whilst growing our repertoire, and most importantly, singing in the community, including where audiences are unable to donate to our costs of performing, or where we fundraise for other charities such as RNLI or Noah’s Ark Appeal – to name just two of our recent performances
3 June 2025
(with reminders posted 14th and 19th June 2025).
SOCIAL MEDIA POST
For a second year running we have been invited to perform (yes – we are good!) at Make Music Day Cymru Wales, part of the UK-wide festival of music. The event promises great music, great fun and great performers and is free. We will be onstage at 1pm. Come along, enjoy the music. It would be great to see you.
31 May 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA POST
Always great to get positive feedback from a performance – especially when we enjoyed ourselves so much. Thank you #RNLI. And even better to have helped raise much needed funds for our local RNLI. Thank you to everyone who donated. We’ll be back at RNLI, Barry Island in August.
24 May 2025
SOCIAL MEDIA POST
Barry Community Choir has been quietly evolving, refreshing and reinvigorating itself over recent years, especially after the ravages of COVID and measures which prevented any singing. The choir has very successfully risen up again and with fresh music to sing in a balanced mix of styles, with membership steadily increasing, and our sound being developed by professional coaching and support, our confidence has built and the results are just joyful, and will appeal to many audiences. A professional opera singer recently remarked “BCC has the best sound I have heard from a community choir”.
