Our new Christmas venture
November 22, 2009 by Rob Westwood-Payne
Filed under Events, News
Cradley Heath Salvation Army Songsters are pleased to announce the details of their annual Christmas Carol event for 2009.
For the last ten years, the event has taken the form of a traditional candle-lit Festival of Lessons and Carols, following the form of the famous carol service from King’s College, Cambridge.
This year, the format of the event has changed. Instead, the event will be a concert, featuring a number of contemporary Christmas songs from the Songsters, an opportunity for the congregation to join in traditional Christmas carols and all interspersed with selected readings from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol’s themes of conversion and redemption seem appropriate for such an evening and it is hoped that listeners hearing the readings along with our music will pause to think how best to show the Christian values of kindness, generosity and compassion.
The Cradley Heath Christmas Carol concert takes place at The Salvation Army, Meredith Street, Cradley Heath, West Midlands B64 5EP on Sunday 13 December 2009 at 6:00pm. Admission is free and coffee and mince pies will be served at the conclusion of the evening.
We’d love you to join us!
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Rob Westwood-Payne grew up in The Salvation Army at Norwich Citadel. He left Norwich to study at the University of Warwick and became fully involved in the music centre there culminating in his conducting Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to a full house in Symphony Hall in Birmingham. He also transferred to The Salvation Army at Coventry City, where he became Songster Leader at the age of 21. He was made Songster Leader at Cradley Heath in April 1998 shortly before marrying Gail in the following October. He is a former leader of the West Midlands Divisional Youth Chorus and is currently Programme Director at the West Midlands Divisional Summer School for The Salvation Army. He is an Associate Solicitor in the Licensing Team of a national practice based in the south west.