After a break of just over a month, we're back rehearsing. Some 40 Canton Chorus members got together on the evening of 1 March (St David's Day) to start on the programme for our summer concert, which is planned for 8 July.

For this, our acting music director Ben Teague has devised a varied programme featuring short works by Brahms, Bairstow, Durufle, Messiaen, Parry and Coleridge-Taylor, and concluding with Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs. Although we're almost back to our pre-pandemic numbers, new members are always welcome ...