Building on the great success of the previous Sing Birmingham! and Sing Warwick! workshops,  the 2023 workshop at King's Norton, Birmingham is again brought to you by Immanuel's Ground in collaboration with the West Gallery Music Association, and with the help of the Diocese of Birmingham and the Royal School of Church Music.

This is a Workshop of
West  Gallery Music and Carols
and is open to both
singers and instrumentalists
who would like to spend a day singing and playing
this uniquely English form of music, coming from an era which has
consistently been ignored by ecclesiastical  historians!

As well as favourites from this genre of 18th- and 19th-century church music, the Workshop will include settings of psalms and anthems written by both town and country composers, including some from the many local church composers widely connected with the Midlands.

The music is best suited to strings, flutes, concertinas (ie non-chordal instruments), woodwind, and light brass. Heavy Eb instruments such as tubas and euphoniums are a little out of character, but Serpents and other bass instruments welcome!! It would be helpful to know well beforehand if transposed  music is required.

The Workshop will be held in

The Church of St Nicolas King's Norton Birmingham, B38 8RU

Map to get there
(Google Maps)

  from
10.00 am   to   4.30 pm
Doors open from 9.30 am for coffee and setting up, etc.
Cost £10.00 to include music and light refreshments

For lunch, local hostelries available nearby at lunchtime, which
may have to be booked in advance,
or bring your own lunch to eat in the church.

To allow for printing of music, etc.,
please download and complete an Application Form 
and return it by Wednesday 25 October, together with a cheque made payable to Immanuel’s Ground Quire for £10 p.p. to
Sheila Macadam
30 Eynsham Road, Botley, Oxford OX2 9BP.
Alternatively,
BACS payments welcome, please email shelwin8@tiscali.co.uk
 or call 01865 865773 for details.
(Cheques will not be presented until Monday 30^th October.)

PARKING
Parking is difficult!!
Parking is pay and display at the Bull’s Head on The Green,
or in Miry Lane (the churchyard lane), and
NOT in the highway outside the church..

*** WARNING ***
Do not turn right out of Miry Lane in your car as you leave the Church
if you want to celebrate Christmas on earth!