Love Pop Choir Festive Programme 2023 Weeks 1 & 2

Weeks 1 & 2 features the Ilkley Cosmic Shopping & Social evening, Bradford Ice Carnival, Farsley Christmas Market, Ripon Cathedral and the Ilkley Light Switch On. 

Photo Credit: Craig Denton

Published On:

Monday, 27 November 2023 10:00

Love Pop Choirs Ilkley & Otley  
Ilkley Cosmic Christmas Shopping & Social Evening 
17th November 2023

Kicking off with the first gig of the festive season, Love Pop Choir's Ilkley and Otley groups came together to sing at the Clarke Foley Centre in Ilkley. 

A cosy shopping evening with stalls and a candle making workshop raising funds for the Clarke Foley Centre, a charity providing facilities for recreational, educational and a wide range of other leisure pursuits.  

Our ladies gave a fantastic performance entertaining the audience to a beautiful mix of Christmas favourites as they browsed the stalls.

One gig down, only another 22 to go! 

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Love Pop Choir - All choirs
The Bradford Ice Carnival
18th November 2023

What a fabulous event for Love Pop Choir!  

Despite the rainy weather the Bradford Ice Carnival attracted the crowds all keen to see the beautiful ice sculptures, enjoy the funfair and of course listen to the musical entertainment.   

Ladies representing all of our groups enjoyed this event led by Shane, our Saltaire Choir Director. Our talented ladies entertained the audience with Autumn and Christmas favourites such as California Dreamin' and Fairytale of New York with each song receiving rapturous applause from the crowd. 

Such a fun event to get the Christmas season well and truly underway.

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Love Pop Choirs Farsley & Cookridge 
Sunny Bank Mills Christmas Market, Farsley
24th November 2023

Photo Credit: Craig Denton

Our fabulous new Farsley group gave a wonderful performance at their very first gig!

Supported by some of our lovely Cookridge ladies, the audience were treated to 2 separate performances at the Farsley Christmas Market in Sunnybank Mills. Such a beautiful venue with lots of festive stalls and wafts of mulled wine in the air, it was a real treat to sing there.

New Choir Director Joanne did a great job, leading her ladies through the set list with songs such as Let it Snow and Winter Wonderland bringing a real Christmassy feel to the event.

What an amazing achievement as the group has only been together for a few weeks, here's to many more gigs for Love Pop Choir Farsley.

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Video Credit: Craig Denton

Love Pop Choir - All Choirs 
Ripon Cathedral Christmas Fair 
25th November 2023


Photo credit: Craig Denton

Performing at Ripon Cathedral has to be one of the highlights for Love Pop Choir.

We had an incredible day singing in this stunning location with the most amazing acoustics.

Ladies representing all seven of our groups joined us here and our fabulous Choir Director, Lauren, led us through a stunning yet varied set which the audience loved. The sound was heard all around as our performance was broadcast throughout the entire Cathedral. O Holy Night, Hallelujah and new choir favourite Carol of the Bells sounded especially beautiful with some people saying it moved them to tears, what a compliment.

Our awesome photographer, Craig Denton, has taken so many wonderful photographs and our families and friends captured so many videos of the day that we have created a separate Ripon Cathedral Special news article for you to enjoy.

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The event raised a staggering ÂŁ41,472 for the Cathedral and brought lots of tourism to Ripon, what an incredible achievement!

We have already been booked to sing here again next year, giving even more ladies the opportunity to experience this event.

Love Pop Choirs Ilkley & Otley 
Ilkley Christmas Lights Switch On
25th November 2023

Our talented Ilkley & Otley groups gave a wonderful performance at the Ilkley Lights Switch On.

Some of our dedicated ladies had to rush here after performing at Ripon Cathedral so a very busy but fabulous day of singing for them. We also had our amazing Roundhay Choir Director, Georgia, stepping in to lead the choir, so big thanks to her.

A Christmas market, Santa switching on the lights and of course Love Pop Choir entertaining the crowds with Christmas favourites such as Winter Wonderland, Let it Snow made for a very festive afternoon. 

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