ENCHANT have been singing regularly together for 5 years. Originally set up to offer choral music at friends’ weddings, we have now expanded our membership and repertoire to perform at many different events and venues. In recent years, we have won the Bromsgrove Talent Fest, performed at Artsfest, led music for a weekend at Gloucester Cathedral, performed the Duruflé requiem at St Paul’s in the Jewellery Quarter, and raised valuable funds for a variety of charities. We have also premièred several new works by our leader and accompanist, John Barber.
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By Matthew
– 1st September, 2009
We had another lovely evening at St Paul’s in the Jewellery Quarter, performing a special concert for the Birmingham Book Group. The group has been in existence since the eighteenth century, so is a real part of Birmingham’s history. We performed music including the madrigal ‘Fair Phyllis’, Purcell’s setting of ‘If Music Be the Food of Love’, Vaughan Williams’ ‘Linden Lea’ and brought things up-to-date with our own John Barber’s arrangements of ‘Rule the World’ and ‘We Have All the Time in the World’.
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By Vicky
– 22nd July, 2011
We had a great evening at Great Barr Methodist Church, where we had been invited back after a concert there 2 years ago. We were joined by baritone Martin Evans and barbershop group The Harmonics. It was great to perform with them again, and particularly to do some joint pieces – Gwahoddiad and You Raise Me Up.
We tested out a few new pieces – Rule the World and Who Wants to Live Forever? which seemed to go down well. I think they will become popular items in repertoire. Now, all systems go for the wedding on Saturday, at which we will be singing 4 pieces, all new this year, and 3 specially arranged for us by John Barber.
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By Vicky
– 11th July, 2011
We’ve got a busy few weeks coming up, with concerts on 9th and 27th July, as well as singing at a wedding, and a booking from the Birmingham Book Society. Details of the concerts are on the gigs page.
This means learning a lot of new repertoire, including several new arrangements by our conductor, John Barber. We really like them; hope you will too!
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By Vicky
– 29th June, 2011
Enchant are going to be performing at Artsfest this year. You can see us at 6pm in the Industrial Gallery of Birmingham Art Gallery, performing some of our favourite pieces.
Artsfest is Birmingham’s annual arts festival, and it’s all free! http://www.artsfest.org.uk/
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By Vicky
– 31st August, 2010
We had another successful joint concert with the Harmonics at Holy Name Church Great Barr.
We tried out a couple of new pieces – a beautiful arrangement of Billy Joel’s Lullabye and a version of You Raise Me Up, which John Barber arranged for us to sing jointly with the Harmonics.
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By Vicky
– 24th May, 2010
Enchant performed at this competition at the Artrix, Bromsgrove. Other talent included Little Dave, Spirals Dance Academy, and The Garage Band. We were joint winners along with Little Dave 
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By Matthew
– 12th September, 2009
