Welcome to the Herts & Soul Community Choir
The Choir that Rocks the Herts & Essex Community!
Since the beginning of lockdown, our Herts & Soulsters have proudly been ‘virchearsing’ online together every Friday.
Here’s our virtual take on Coldplay’s Viva La Vida (long live life) – our celebration of life and overcoming the challenges that it sometimes confronts us with.
Anyone who has attended a Herts and Soul concert will know that the combination of musical performance, story-telling and laughter all adds to a fantastic evening out – Herts and Essex Observer
Based in Bishop’s Stortford, East Herts, The Herts and Soul Community Choir is one of the largest, upbeat and most popular Community Choirs in the UK.
Billed by the regional press as ‘The Choir that Rocks the Community!’, membership is available at low cost for anybody who loves or wants to learn to sing across a variety of genres – pop, rock, soul, jazz, folk, traditional, musical theatre and light choral music.
Under the dynamic and skilfully-pitched musical direction of Susie Savage and Peter Clayton, Herts and Soul offers ‘Soulsters’ a platform to sing in an encouraging, lively environment whilst also contributing to the local community through fundraising concerts, accompanied by our very own in-house Vastly Ace Band.
With a truly inclusive ‘no audition, no requirement to read music’ philosophy, our aim is to encourage individual singers of all ages, confidence levels and abilities to experience how our ‘Soulster effect’ can hone their potential and direct it towards making a positive impact in their lives.
“Singing in a group connects you to something outside normal day to day affairs. Our Soulsters can vouch for the affirming experiences, flourishing friendships and sense of wellbeing that can be shared together through singing,” says choir founder Chris Humphreys, “to pool such a powerful collective energy and channel it into such well-attended concerts, whilst also fundraising for local community causes, is the icing on our choral cake”
We rehearse every Friday evening from 7.15pm-9.30pm at the Herts & Essex High School, Warwick Road, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, CM23 5NJ.
Why not come and experience the Soulster sizzle yourself? And in the meantime, please have a look below at some video snippets of Herts and Soul ‘rocking the Herts and Essex community’ with our friends from Cambridge’s fabulous Umbrella Big Band…
Herts & Soul by Numbers
Our Core Values
Treat others how you wish to be treated
Give more to the community than you wish to receive
Always look for the good
Singing is the prescription for all ills – cheaper than therapy, healthier than drinking and more fun than working out