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# Swan Singers

Wells, Somerset

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- [Floral in Wells](https://swansingers.com/2026/05/14/floral-in-wells/) - Tickets for our repeat concert in Wells are now on sale. Join us on Sunday 21 June at 3pm in St Cuthbert's Church. Refreshments will be available, including a summer treat of Pimms! Follow the QR code or click this link to book now.
- [Floral Choral](https://swansingers.com/2026/04/28/floral-choral/) - A musical celebration of flowers and plants featuring roses from Gjeilo, du Caurray and Howells, lilies from Chilcott, Palestrina and assorted garden-related pieces from, among others, Hensel, Holst, Lane and Pearsall. All in all, a feast for the senses! Tickets for our performance on Saturday 13 June at The Bennet Centre in Frome are now available
- [Jesu Meine Freude](https://swansingers.com/2026/02/03/jesu-meine-freude/) - Bach's sublime motet along with Victoria's 'Tenebrae Responses for Maundy Thursday' and Sarah MacDonald's 'Crux Fidelis'; magnificent Lenten music in this afternoon concert at St Laurence's Church, East Harptree. Tickets are now available via the QR code in the poster below, or follow this link.
- [Carols & Cakes 14 December](https://swansingers.com/2025/11/25/carols-cakes-14-december/) - Don your festive jumper, and loosen your belt for our annual Christmas choral romp through seasonal music and epic post-concert refreshments! This year we return to the lovely parish church at Dinder near Wells on Sunday 14 December at 3pm and we'll be celebrating a number of composers with Significant Birthdays this year. Tickets are a
- [Where Words End Tickets](https://swansingers.com/2025/10/28/where-words-end-tickets/) - St Thomas' Church Wells - Saturday 8 November, 7pm We are looking forward to the final concert in our busy autumn season - Where Words End. As for our tour concerts, this programme is built around suggestions from members of the choir for music which heals, consoles and inspires. Tickets are available now - click
- [Tickets for Falmouth Concert](https://swansingers.com/2025/09/19/tickets-for-falmouth-concert/) - Tickets are now on sale for our concert in Falmouth, Cornwall on Saturday 1 November. Click or scan the QR code below to book right now! Join the Swans on tour at All Saints Parish Church, Killigrew St, Falmouth TR11 3PN, 7.30pm. With thanks to The Poly for their box office services. While you're there,
- [New Term & Cornwall Tour!](https://swansingers.com/2025/08/27/new-term-cornwall-tour/) - We're excited to announce that our next performances will be as part of our tour to Cornwall (but don't worry - there's also a repeat performance in Wells!) On Thursday 30 October we'll be singing evensong at Truro Cathedral, a service which will be particularly spectacular as we'll be sharing the space with artist Luke
- [Where Words End - Wells Concert](https://swansingers.com/2025/08/27/where-words-end-wells-concert/) - If you can't join us in Cornwall - or even if you can! - don't miss the repeat performance of our Falmouth concert, back on home turf in Wells. Saturday 8th November, St Thomas' Church, WellsTickets will be available shortly.
- [Coming Soon!](https://swansingers.com/2025/06/25/coming-soon/) - 'Dixit Dominus' and more - Saturday 5 July Have you got your tickets yet? It's less than two weeks until our summer concert. Rehearsals have flown by, and the choir is raring to go. Join us for Handel's energising 'Dixit Dominus' with companion pieces by Buxtehude and Purcell. Doors will open at St Cuthbert's Church
- [Booking Now Open!](https://swansingers.com/2025/03/06/booking-now-open/) - In the Footsteps of Alexander - Saturday 3 May Tickets are now on sale for our concert on 3 May at St Thomas' church in Wells. With music by composers from Stanford to Tavener, Holst to Esenvalds, this fascinating programme will explore the lands conquered by Alexander the Great. Tickets are available from our Trybooking page,
- [Booking Opens Soon!](https://swansingers.com/2025/02/03/booking-opens-soon/) - In the Footsteps of Alexander - Sat 3 May - St Thomas' Church Wells, 7pm Alexander the Great lived for only 33 years yet, from the age of 20 when he succeeded his father Philip II to the throne of the ancient kingdom of Macedon in 336BC, he expanded his empire further and further east
- [Coming Up! Concert for Evolve Music](https://swansingers.com/2025/01/14/coming-up-concert-for-evolve-music/) - Saturday 25 January 2025 at 7pm, St Thomas' Church, Wells Featuring music from our summer 2024 concert, join us for a choral pilgrimage from England, France, the Basque Country and Portugal to Santiago de Compostela including music by Victoria, Lobo, Philips, Vivanco and Debussy. Tickets are available via Eventbrite, click here. The Musical Roads to
- [Musical Relations - This Weekend!](https://swansingers.com/2024/11/12/musical-relations-this-weekend/) - Saturday 16 November at 19:30, St Michael's Without, Broad Street, Bath We're delighted to be joining our friends at Cappella Nova to showcase music by Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn) and Clara Schumann alongside their brother and husband and to bring their stories into the foreground. Both extremely skilled composers and performers, their music deserves to be
- [Come and Sing!](https://swansingers.com/2024/09/15/breaking-news/) - Have you booked your tickets for our Come and Sing day with Bob Chilcott? Join us on Saturday 2nd November at St John’s Church, Glastonbury (BA6 9DR) from 9.30 to 4.30. Tickets are £25, or £15 for accompanied under 18s and those in full-time education. Music hire is included in the ticket price. Repertoire on the
- [We're Back!](https://swansingers.com/2024/09/05/were-back/) - First rehearsal of the term and lots of new music to learn. Looking forward to singing music by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn and Clara and Robert Schumann with Cappella Nova - Bath in November. It's great to be singing together again.
- [We’re recruiting!](https://swansingers.com/2024/09/04/were-recruiting/) - We currently have vacancies in our tenor and 2nd bass sections. Ability to read music is a requirement and we welcome both experienced choral singers and those wishing to explore the chamber choir repertoire in more detail. Please email info@swansingers.com for more information.
- [Tickets Now Available!](https://swansingers.com/2024/05/21/tickets-now-available/) - Tickets are now on sale for our next concert - The Musical Roads to Compostela at St John's Church in Frome on Sunday 7 July. They're available to buy in person at the Cheese and Grain in Frome, on the Frome Festival website or by scanning the QR code on the poster.
- [Going Nuts in May](https://swansingers.com/2024/05/13/going-nuts-in-may/) - The Swan Singers and Friends Go Nuts in May 8:30am May 1st Ebbor Gorge. The annual outing of the Nuts in May Singers (Swan Singers and friends) was another triumph of musical optimism over slightly dreary weather as we walked and madrigalled our way from Deerleap Car Park to the top of Ebbor Gorge. There were
- [Swans Unmuted](https://swansingers.com/2021/10/04/swans-unmuted/) - Our first outing since COVID-19 struck and prevented us gathering to rehearse, at St. Cuthbert's Church in Wells, on September the 18th, was an emotive occasion. The programme had been voted on by choir members from material which we had been able to access in a Zoom moderated home karaoke fashion. In addition, our conductor
- [Nuts in May](https://swansingers.com/2021/05/08/nuts-in-may/) - After last year's prohibition of a real trip down and up Ebbor Gorge for madrigals, coffee and cake, a socially distanced small-group version took place in 2021. A chance find of a willow statue provided this photo opportunity - too good to be missed!
- [Nothing daunted..](https://swansingers.com/2020/12/15/nothing-daunted/) - Despite COVID restrictions the Swans have continued to sing together via Zoom. Of late we have been rehearsing items for our virtual choir concert in place of our traditional Carols and Cake Concert. The Christmas spirit was very much in evidence during our final rehearsal, as the screenshot shows!
- [Wells Bishop's Palace 14th December 2019](https://swansingers.com/2019/12/07/wells-bishops-palace-14th-december-2019/) - The Swan Singers will be at the Bishop's Palace in Wells on Saturday 14th December as part of the Christmas celebrations 'Christmas at the Palace'. Between 12.00 noon and 12.45 pm we will be in the Bishop's Chapel performing some wonderful sacred Christmas music by composers old and new. At 1.15 pm the singers will
- [Swans on tour Yorkshire!](https://swansingers.com/2018/05/28/swans-on-tour-yorkshire/) - Swans On Tour Yorkshire 2018!! Monday 28th May - Carlisle Cathedral (evensong) Skempton - Preces and Responses Howells - Magnificat and Nunc 'Collegium Regale' Howells - Like as the Hart Wednesday 30th May - Giggleswick School Chapel Bainton - And I Saw a New Heaven Blow - Salvator Mundi Byrd - Sing Joyfully Finzi - Lo the
- [Faire is the Heaven](https://swansingers.com/2018/07/15/faire-is-the-heaven/)
- [Carols and Cakes](https://swansingers.com/2018/12/16/carols-and-cakes-2/)
- [May Day Madrigals!](https://swansingers.com/2018/05/04/may-day-madrigals/) - So what do you do on 1st May? Well, climb Ebbor Gorge and sing madrigals of course!
- [‘Carols and Cakes’ at St Thomas Church](https://swansingers.com/2017/12/10/carols-and-cakes/) - Sunday 10 December 2017 3pm St Thomas’ Church, Wells ‘Carols and Cakes’ Our annual afternoon concert of seasonal fare both edible and choral! The Swan Singers and the children of Wells Cathedral Song Squad join forces for some Christmas jollity and audience carols. Our programme: Bethlehem Down The Three Kings O Magnum (Victoria) Away in
- [Farmborough Church, Three Towers Festival](https://swansingers.com/2018/04/29/farmborough-church-three-towers-festival/) - Sunday 29 April 2018 Farmborough Concert as part of the Three Towers Festival. www.threetowersfestival.org Our programme: Hear my Prayer, O Lord (Purcell) Beati Quorum Via (Stanford) O Clap your Hands (Gibbons) Like as the Hart (Howells) Locquebantur Variis Linguis (Tallis) Lo the Full Final Sacrifice (Finzi) Faire is the Heaven (Harris) Bluebird (Stanford) Amazing Grace
- [Christmas at Bishop's Palace, Wells](https://swansingers.com/2017/12/16/christmas-at-bishops-palace-wells/) - Saturday 16 December 2017 Bishop’s Palace, Wells The Swan Singers gathered in the Chapel of the Bishop’s Palace and round the piano in the Long Gallery for festive music as part of the Christmas at the Palace festival. bishopspalace.org.uk
- [From Luther to Bach](https://swansingers.com/2017/10/25/from-luther-to-bach/) - The German Reformation Marking the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 39 Articles, a survey of choral music in Germany from the 16th to 18th centuries including works by Calvisius, Praetorius, Luther and J S Bach.
- [May 2017](https://swansingers.com/2017/05/13/may-2017/) - A concert celebrating the life and work of Ella Fitzgerald
- [July 2014 - our first concert!](https://swansingers.com/2014/07/11/july-2014-our-first-concert/) - This was our first concert, before we found our name.
- [December 2014](https://swansingers.com/2014/12/17/december-2014/) - Our Christmas concert, as the newly named Swan Singers!
- [July 2015](https://swansingers.com/2015/07/19/july-2015/) - Under the Greenwood Tree
- [March 2016](https://swansingers.com/2016/03/19/march-2016/) - Music for Lent
- [November 2016](https://swansingers.com/2016/11/19/november-2016/) - Music celebrating Mary
- [December 2016](https://swansingers.com/2016/12/19/december-2016/) - Carols and cakes, with the Song Squad

## Pages

- [Welcome to the Swan Singers](https://swansingers.com/) - Based in the beautiful city of Wells in Somerset, the Swan Singers are a group of local singers who perform repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. Our concerts blend the familiar with new discoveries.
- [Future concerts](https://swansingers.com/future-concerts/) - We can help you with tickets - just email info@swansingers.com.See below for our 2026 Concert Diary. Coming up in June - celebrate summer with the Swan Singers. Featuring roses from Gjeilo, du Caurray and Howells, lilies from Chilcott, Palestrina and assorted garden-related pieces from, among others, Hensel, Holst, Lane and Pearsall. All in all, a
- [Past Concerts](https://swansingers.com/past-concerts/) - Browse the Swans Singers' back catalogue here.
- [Music Library](https://swansingers.com/music-library/) - The Swan Singers have an interesting library of music sets which is available on loan to other choirs. Please contact info@swansingers.com for the list of works, availability and hire details.
- [Contact](https://swansingers.com/contact/) - You can email us on info@swansingers.com We also use facebook - like our page to keep up to date with what we do.
- [Our conductor](https://swansingers.com/our-conductor/) - Tricia Rees-Jones was born and brought up in Yorkshire where she studied piano and viola before being appointed a Choral Scholar at Royal Holloway College, London which fuelled her passion for choral singing. She sang with a number of London-based chamber choirs including the Joyful Company of Singers with whom she enjoyed performing throughout Europe
- [Given the uncertainties caused by COVID-19, future plans have yet to evolve.](https://swansingers.com/given-the-uncertainties-caused-by-covid-19-future-plans-have-yet-to-evolve/) - Please check back for details.
- [2020](https://swansingers.com/sample-page/) - Our planned Spring Concert had to be cancelled due to Lockdown. We are presently working on material for a Christmas event, which may yet be required to be online. Be sure to check back here for details.
- [2020](https://swansingers.com/2020-2/) - Our Spring concert was postponed due to Lockdown I, and subsequent hopes of performing it in November were quashed by Lockdown II. Virtual gatherings and singing were maintained as best they could be, thanks in large part to our indefatigable director. Work is now in hand on a Virtual Christmas Concert. Check back for details
- [Postponed until November due to Covid-19](https://swansingers.com/313-2/)
- [Northern Lights](https://swansingers.com/northern-lights/)
- [Carols and Cake 2019](https://swansingers.com/carols-and-cake-2019/)

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