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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Millicent Choral Society has been entertaining the local community and beyond for the best part of five decades and their next performance is this weekend. Alongside special guest artists the South East Concert Band, the Millicent Choral Society are bringing Valentine\u2019s Day to May with a Love Songs Concert at the Millicent Civic & Arts Centre at 2.30pm this Sunday.<\/p>\n
Choir leader Michael Bleby said this weekend\u2019s performance will showcase a diverse range of music \u2013 including movie inspired ballads Elton John\u2019s Can You Feel The Love Tonight? from The Lion King and the Titanic\u2019s My Heart Will Go On, as well as time honoured classics including Three Coins in The Fountain, a Sinatra classic, and The Rose of Tralee, our of Ireland. The program also includes The Beatles song Yesterday, the John Denver-Placido Domingo collaboration Perhaps Love, Dean Martin\u2019s That\u2019s Amore and First of May, by the Bee Gees.<\/p>\n
There will also be an afternoon tea during interval. The Millicent Choral Society was formed in 1974 and has run continuously, performing at a variety of venues through the region and further afield. \u201cThere are so many good venues for singing in this region – the Uniting Church Hall, other churches, the Civic & Arts Centre,\u201d Michael said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have also done a couple of concerts in the Tantanoola Cave over the years and they have been hugely successful. The acoustics are like a cathedral and we have sold out concerts that can have 60 people seated in the stunning cave setting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The choir has hit the road as well at South Australian Choral Association events, as well as Victorian events, and they have joined forces with other choirs, including the Port Lincoln choir, at festival events.<\/p>\n
In its hey day, membership was around 30 singers and still now sits around the 15-20 mark.<\/p>\n
The Millicent Choral Society is a genuine community choir \u2013 no audition required \u2013 it is all about the enjoyment of singing.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest challenges for community choirs is sourcing an accompanist and the Millicent choir has made the move to backing tracks to ensure they can continue \u2013 even when their most recent accompanist left the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does present its challenges but it also gives you the opportunity to sing to a large orchestral backing track if that\u2019s what you want,\u201d Michael said. \u201cI work with a lady from Ireland that can source what I need and email me the MP3 file \u2013 that\u2019s been a big change.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group, as it always has, also performs a cappella.<\/p>\n
Tickets for this Sunday\u2019s Love Songs Concert is $20 for adults, $15 for concession and children (under 18) for $5, with tickets available at the door for cash only.<\/p>\n
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Millicent Choral Society & South East Concert Band presenting love songs across the ages to the stage The Millicent Choral Society has been entertaining the local community and beyond for the best part of five decades and their next performance is this weekend. Alongside special guest artists the South East Concert Band, the Millicent Choral […]<\/p>\n