Latest: Christmas rehearsals underway, first performance 8th Dec
Music Makers of Milton Keynes are a community choir with an emphasis on singing for fun ... mixing up a range of styles and sounds.
We are a welcoming bunch, with a range of backgrounds, ages, experience and a blend of multi-part harmonies - whether accompanied or a cappella.
We don't require audition and mainly perform group numbers from customised arrangements.
We perform at local events, collaborate with other musical groups, take bookings for sessions and hold our own concerts.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS: We've now switched over to festive prep from November. Come along if carolling and festive tunes are your thing! Our first session will be for The Parks Trust - see poster for Sun 8th Dec. We're also due at The Cock Hotel in Stony on Mon 9th Dec for a special dinner event.
2025 will mark our 40th year - so watch this space for more, later that year!
Come see us - our events page has more information on dates, venues and collaborations.
We hope to be at more local events and sessions, with some private booked events, and the festive season pub gatherings at The Cock Hotel Stony Stratford, Shoulder of Mutton, Calverton and The White Hart, Grafton Regis.
We mix up finessing current repertoire with future practice, familiar and new pieces again for the next season and beyond, welcoming newcomers any time - always a good time to try out and join up!
Our collaborations usually take place locally to MK. Lifts can be arranged with members if needed.
Check our Events Calendar to keep up to date with our rehearsal slots, future engagements, and for venue information. We're coming up to 40 years of performing, so more to come on this.
RECENT EVENTS:
MMMK completed our set of contemporary repertoire for 2024 with a reprise at Magdalen House, Stony Stratford on 12th Oct, before retiring much of that music in favour of the festive season, and new pieces coming up in 2025.
MMMK continued our theme of supporting other charity events, and performed at The Cock Hotel in Stony Straford on 21st July, in aid of Macmillan - with a lovely afternoon tea in their courtyard.
MMMK were welcomed back to Freeman Memorial Methodist Church in Bletchley for our summer concert on 22nd June, quickly followed by The Bean in Stony for the Open Gardens on 23rd June. We also returned to Kents Hill nursing home on 6th July by invitation, all very well received, with thanks.
MMMK were back at StonyLive! 2024, with two sets 1st & 6th June, with the Stony Riverside Fair in between on 2nd June. Earlier, we gave a rousing start to our new 2024 repertoire in a Spring Concert for St. Mary's Church, Shenley, enjoyed by all!
MMMK have taken part in local events in Stony Stratford and MK, along with some performances for community groups - as part of Stony Live! 2023, and the Stony Stratford Autumn Fayre. We also concluded the year with rousing sing-along festive performances at many events, private and public - much enjoyed by all involved!
MMMK enjoy our festive commitments, including a Christmas Concert on 10th Dec 2022 back at St.Mary & St.Giles Church in Stony Stratford. Our last rehearsal of 2022 also doubled as a sing-along gathering in The Shoulder of Mutton, Calverton on 15th Dec. Some members also joined other local groups for their seasonal collaborations too. Earlier on, we held our successful and rousing Autumn 2022 concert on 8th Oct at the Freeman Memorial Methodist Church in Bletchley.
MMMK re-started post-lockdowns in 2021, and undertook a more scaled-back Christmas period, with some festive pub sing-a-long sessions. We had to miss our usual fixtures for Stony Live! 2020 and in 2021 while under restrictions. In 2022, we offered an Open Evening on the 9th June 2022 and followed this up with some busking on 11th June by the lychgate on Stony High Street. Following some great feedback, we'll do similar again!
NOTABLE PAST EVENTS:
MMMK concluded our earlier joint commitments in 2019 - our annual concert with Brackley Wind Ensemble was preceded with choir members joining Wolverton Light Orchestra for their Christmas Concert. We'd like to thank our previous long-standing music director Brian Dipple for all his efforts on our behalf - vocally, in partnerships, collaborations, and especially with the trips abroad. In particular, our Summer 2019 tour in Germany Rhine & Moselle was a success, with a number of local events beforehand - including variations on our set list with BWE in Westbury.
In our 30th year, we performed jointly with BWE - in Sulgrave Manor prior to our Belgium Tour over Summer 2016, in Ypres, Menin Gate, Bruges and Ghent cathedrals. In the anniversary run-up, we reprised and joined forces with Wendy Kitching's dancers, for a 'Summertime Spectacular' in a return to Stantonbury Theatre in June 2015.
We are planning around our 2024/25 commitments; if you have an occasion or collaboration in mind, please do get in touch.
We always welcome new members, without audition; entertaining Milton Keynes since 1985. While we are based in Stony Stratford, we regularly reach wider audiences. We are also very interested in joining in with local events as part of our community ethos.
Would you like to join in?
If you would like to join and sing with us, you are very welcome to come along to a rehearsal. We will be delighted to see you. Our rehearsals page has more detail on timings and location. First rehearsal is free, approximately £5 per session afterward.
Rehearsal facilities: the Stony Stratford Methodist Hall is heated, with suitable conveniences, but we are asking all members and visitors to bring their own refreshments rather than using communal facilities for the time being. Please bring a mask or other face covering when moving through indoor spaces, if concerned.
Find out about the events we have planned; a gallery and footage from past performances, and some more information about the group and earlier history. MMMK have been entertaining Milton Keynes since 1985.
We rehearse most Thursdays from 7:30pm at the Methodist Hall, Silver Street, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes. MK11 1JS
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