by John Granger | Nov 19, 2020
St John’s Choir in Lockdown2020 During the past nine months, the St John’s choir has become a virtual choir, recording hymns and anthems for use in our services and also a virtual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols for Christmas 2020. All nineteen recordings have...
by John Granger | Jun 1, 2020
The St John’s Choir came together virtually in May to record the lovely hymn ‘Breath on me breathe of God’. Through the use of modern technology and with the invaluable help of Choirmaster John Granger and technical help from Canon David Neill we...
by John Granger | Dec 25, 2019
What a wonderful service as we look towards Christmas Day and the birth of Jesus. The church looked wonderful in candlelight; the floral displays were beautiful, a congregation of over 200 holding their candles as the choir processed in to Once in Royal David’s...
by John Granger | Dec 19, 2019
On Saturday 7th December, the church choir joined forces with Cantorion Sanctaidd for an afternoon of festive music and a little bit of fun! Cantorion Sanctaidd is a small, local choir performing non-secular music in venues around the greater Gwent area, and the idea...
by John Granger | Oct 13, 2019
Well, weren’t we lucky with the weather!! That was the general sentiment from everyone who enjoyed (?) a whole day in Oakwood. It had rained for most of the journey to West Wales and we had torrential rain for much of the journey home. Yet we saw not a drop of...