Recent Activities

Alnwick Gardens - Sunday 18th December

This was our last Christmas performance.  It's always an enjoyable venue and it looked stunning in the winter sunlight - although most of us had chilly fingers and toes, at times.  A great way to finish the year.

Happy Christmas to everyone who participated in any of our seasonal events and thanks from all of us to Gilly, for finding us such lovely music and helping us to do it justice - at least  some of the time.

Linskill Centre - Friday 16th December

A smaller number came to share some Christmas songs with the Linskill Theatre Group.  It was an informal occasion and a lot of fun.

Cullercoats Church Hall - Wednesday 14th December

Whitley Women here included impromptu ukeleles, tambourines and a whistle.

Cullercoats Community Centre - Tuesday 13th December

It was a wild and windy night outside, so we were glad to be inside.   

The sound of the choir was bigger than the audience!  We must have done some things right, because they have asked us back next year.

The Concourse at the Sage - Sunday 11th December

It was great to have a room to warm up in.

So many choir members supported this event that it was a squash to fit us all in!

This year, some intrepid people learned how to do signed singing, for 'Silent Night' and 'O Christmas Tree'.  Can you tell what they are saying?

North Shields Victorian Market - Saturday 10th December

Despite the very cold and rather noisy conditions (funfair music and enthusiastic children), Whitley Women managed to put on a rousing performance.

Whitley Bay St Nicholas Fair - Saturday 3rd December

 A slight mix-up over times turned into a good thing.  Singing in the shopping precinct was warmer and we could hear each other better.  It also meant that lots of people passing through had to pause till the end of a song.

We did sing outside, later, and it was distinctly chilly.  One or two songs turned into a race. I don't know which part of the choir won, but those of us watching Gilly were rewarded with some impromptu moves, and we had to stifle the giggles.

Ridley Hall Residential Weekend - 8th/9th October

This year we had a different format for our residential.  On Saturday, there were 3 workshops: Bell plates, ukeleles and folk singing, which ran 3 times each, so that everyone could go to all of them.  The evening was packed too, with learning the Time Warp, a Beetle drive, Zumba, Call my Bluff and a few performances.  Even so, there was time to relax and chat - a very important part of the weekend.

                                                                                                                 Bell plates

Only one photo of the Time Warp - we needed video to do it justice!

Call my Bluff had a celebrity panel (Z-list), in which Linda's teeth played a starring role.  If you weren't there, ask someone who was.

Seaton Delaval Hall Community Allotments - Saturday 10th September

A group from the choir, suitably dressed, performed a version of 'English Country Garden' (special allotment lyrics by Gill Reed) at the opening of the community kitchen garden.