IN recent years television programmes focusing on choirs have boosted the ranks and popularity of choral singing up and down the country.

The Swindon Male Voice Choir boasts 55 members led by the Director of Music, Max Brockman-More, and supported by Kate Lock, Deputy Director of Music and Victoria Burton, the choir’s accompanist.

On Saturday, June 25, the singers will welcome the Romsey Male Choir as their guests for a summer concert in the Immanuel Church Hall, Upham Road, Swindon.

The Swindon choir have regularly travelled to the South Coast to support the Romsey choir including a performance in the famous Winchester Cathedral with five other male choirs.

Last year Swindon Male Voice Choir headed off to the warm shores of Jersey, touring the island and singing songs from their varied repertoire including Song of the Jolly Roger when there was a debut star performance from a parrot during their concert in the Glass Church.

The choir has notched up various competition successes at the Cheltenham Choral Festival, Cardigan Eisteddfod, North Wales Choral Festival and Essex Male Voice Choir Competition.

During the concert the choirs will combine to make a choir of some 90 voices.

The concert begins at 7.30pm, and tickets are £7.50 from 01793 531710. - Flicky Harrison