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This year, FestiveLea is happening in St. John’s Church, Southdown, Harpenden. Join us on Thursday 19th December for the usual mix of Christmas songs and popular carols. More information and tickets

After a lovely weekend in Yorkshire singing the services in Beverley Minster, we are now working on the repertoire for our next concert, A Ceremony of Carols in St. Lawrence Church Bovingdon on Saturday 30th November. Tickets are now on sale.

At the end of June we are performing a beautiful concert of French and German Romantic music in St. Leonard’s Church, accompanied by pianist Greg May. Tickets are now on sale. More information

On 16th March, we are performing Handel’s Dixit Dominus alongside Arvo Pärt’s Salve Regina in the Lady Chapel of St Albans Cathedral. Tickets are now on sale, from the cathedral box office. More information

After our successful Found in Translation concert last night, during which we performed the world premiere of Kim Porter’s Der Fluss, we are now starting rehearsals for FestiveLea! at the Eric Morecambe Centre on Thursday 21 December. Tickets are available directly from the EMC.

We are excited to be singing in the beautifully atmospheric Palladian Church in Ayot St Lawrence on 1st July. Tickets are now on sale for our performance of Rachmaninov’s Liturgy of St John Chrysostom – including a drink and strawberries beforehand. Book online

Tickets are now on sale for Choral Discoveries: Jesu, Meine Freude – our concert on 18th March in St. Albans Cathedral. A gorgeous programme of Bach, Tavener, Bortniansky and Nystedt. Watch the trailer and get your tickets.

2023 is looking like a fabulous year for the Lea Singers. March sees our second Choral Discoveries concert, in the Lady Chapel of St Albans Cathedral (tickets are on sale now). Then in July we make our first ever visit to the Palladian Church in Ayot St Lawrence for some Rachmaninov and later that month are off to Wales to sing a weekend’s services at St David’s Cathedral. We are already planning our 2023/24 season, and will share our autumn and Christmas plans as soon as we can.

Our raffle at December’s FestiveLea concert in the EMC raised an amazing £960 for the Harpenden Trust. Thank you so much to our audience for being so generous and well done to the lucky winners of the hampers.

If you would like to audition for the Lea Singers, we currently have vacancies for lower voices and interns. More information

Next March sees the second of our Choral Discoveries concerts, this time in the beautiful Lady Chapel of St Albans Cathedral. With works by Bach, Bortniansky, Nystedt and Tavener this is an hour of music to take you somewhere new. Find out more

If you are thinking of joining us for our Charity Christmas Concert in Harpenden on 22nd December, please don’t delay booking your tickets – this is proving very popular. Come and support the Harpenden Trust.

Finally, thank you to our generous audience at Our Lady of Lourdes in November. The retiring collection raised a magnificent £370 for Harpenden Child Contact Centre.