From joining the choir to musical collaborations and community partnerships, we’re always happy to hear from people who share our love of music.
Contact our chair, Nick Craney:
We are proud to have shared our music, supported local causes, and built connections across our community through our work with the following organisations and groups:
- Proud to Support These Charities
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BUST: www.bustbristol.co.uk
BUST (Breast-cancer Unit Support Trust) is a Bristol-based charity that raises funds to support the Bristol Breast Care Centre.
Since 1991, it has helped provide state-of-the-art equipment, fund pioneering treatments and improve care for people affected by breast cancer across the region.
BUST is pleased to support the important work of the excellent Bristol Breast Care Centre by raising money to support innovation and the purchase of new technology, such as state-of-the-art scanners, before it is available through the NHS.
Mindsong: www.mindsong.org.uk
Mindsong is a Gloucestershire based UK charity that uses the power of music to improve the lives of people living with dementia and other health conditions.
Through music therapy, singing groups and community programmes, it brings joy, reduces isolation and supports both participants and their families.
- Musical Friends and Collaborators
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Frampton Shantymen: www.framptonshantymen.co.uk
The Frampton Shantymen formed in 2012, having discovered that shanties are one of the quickest ways to get an entire pub singing along.
Since then, the group has grown in size, repertoire and reputation. We regularly sing around the region and wider afield, entertaining crowds at events ranging from national folk and shanty festivals to local pubs; village fetes to weddings.
We also have an outreach group encouraging singing at local primary schools.
We seek to bring the soaring harmonies of our male voice choir background to bear on the more rough and ready shanty, with an emphasis on the audience having fun.
For us, shanty singing is a great way to bring people together in the joy of making music.
We may or may not achieve historical accuracy but if you feel better at the end of the evening than you did at the start then we've achieved our aim.
Ken's Ukes: sites.google.com/site/kenukesbristol/home
To join the group you must be or become a member of the Yate & Sodbury District U3A.
