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Monday 2nd May 2022 SH (Editor)

Are you looking to try something new in 2022?

“How about coming to our choir?” asks Emma Smallwood. We are the Stoke Gifford Gospel choir, part of the Bristol choir Gospel Generation Community Choir (GGCC). We meet fortnightly on Tuesday evenings from 7.30pm to 9pm in the St Michael’s Centre, North Road.

Friday 26th November 2021 SH (Editor)

Local gospel choir sings on

It has been such a joy to have the Stoke Gifford Gospel Choir back rehearsing… in person! (writes Emma Smallwood of Gospel Generation Community Choir). A number of Christmas performances are planned for the coming weeks, including in Broadmead and The Galleries on Saturday 4th December.

Photo showing several members of the choir rehearsing via the Zoom videoconferencing app.

Friday 18th September 2020 SH (Editor)

Keep singing: How to keep a choir going during a pandemic!

Members of Gospel Generation Community Choir (GGCC) kept singing through lockdown by holding rehearsals through the Zoom videoconferencing app. They have also done a recording as a choir in which they were joined by members of three other choirs in the GGCC national network.

Photo showing some members of Stoke Gifford gospel choir singing during a performance.

Sunday 21st October 2018 SH (Editor)

Fortnightly gospel choir sessions in Stoke Gifford

By Emma Smallwood, choir leader. Did you enjoy the Royal Wedding gospel choir? Do you like to sing along to the radio in your car? Do you love to sing in the shower? Do you think you might like to have a go at singing in a community gospel choir? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then