The Choral Grapevine is a newsletter for choirs in the Western District of Victoria and South Eastern South Australia.
It was founded by June Roberts, who for many years led the Portland Singers and is a champion of choral music in the entire region.
The current editor is Helen Lyth.
Choirs in The Choral Grapevine network in 2015: Apollo Bay: Apollo Bay Community Choir Ballarat: Ballarat Choral Society, U3A Choristers Ballarat, Vox Barwon Heads: Barwon Heads Chorale Berri: Riverland Choral Group, Bordertown: Bordertown A Cappella Singers, Camperdown: Camperdown Uniting Church Choir, Casterton: Sacred Heart Church Choir, Cobden: Cobden Community Choir, Colac: Colac Chorale, Deans Marsh: Deans Marsh Singers, Drysdale: Coryule Chorus, The Bellarine Community Choir Geelong: acabellas, Bella Mama, Geelong (Bay City) Conchords, The Geelong Chorale, Geelong Harmony Chorus, Geelong Trades Hall Choir, Geelong Welsh Ladies Choir, Geelong Youth Choir, The Gesualdo Consort, Grace Notes, International Harvester Male Chorus, Sing Geelong, St Mary’s Basilica Choir, Geelong, St Pauls Church Choir, U3A Geelong Choir, St Lukes Uniting Church Choir, Windfire Chamber Choir, Wondrous Merry, Gisborne: The Gisborne Singers Hamilton: Footprints the Choir, Good Shepherd Choir, Hamilton Singers, Tabor Male Choir, Lavers Hill: Lavers Hill Choir, Millicent: Millicent Choral Society, Mt Gambier: Mayfair , Mount Gambier Choral Society, Mt Gambier Christ Church Anglican Choir, Naracoorte: Naracoorte Singers, Penola: Southern Heritage Singers, Port Fairy: Port Fairy St Johns Anglican Church Choir, Portland: Music Glenelg Inc., Portland Choral Group, St Stephens Anglican Church Choir, Queenscliff: Tides of Welcome, Warrnambool: Cantori, Red Tent Singers, Warrnambool Christ Church Choir, Merri Singers (formerly Warrnambool Mozart Choir), Warrnambool St Johns Presbyterian Choir
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The Choral Grapevine 
Hello there where is the choir at Camperdown in Victoria
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Hi Bridget
I don’t know of any choir in Camperdown. There is one in Colac, and several in Hamilton and Warrnambool.
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Hi Helen,
I thought this information about our coming “Let All Creation Rise” by Ken Stott may interest your readers. The Concert will be performed in Warrnambool on the 29th March at Christ Church Anglican Church Warrnambool at 3:00 and in Hamilton in the Hamilton Alexandra College on Sun 5th April 3:00.
Following the success of the premiere of local composer Ken Stott’s monumental Symphony of the Passion during last year’s Easter Arts Festival in Warrnambool, Ken has been invited to stage a full concert of his major choral and vocal works for the 2020 Easter Arts Festival. The Warrnambool performance will be on Sunday 29 March in the afternoon at Christ Church on Henna Street, and there will be a repeat performance in Hamilton on Sunday 5 April, again in the afternoon, at the Hamilton College Performing Arts Centre.
Three choirs will be taking part, including Cantori, the Hamilton Singers and the Merri Singers, with accompaniment by a chamber orchestra (led by the impressive Matthew Lim), organ and piano. The concert will feature movements from Ken’s well known Cantata, which has been performed a number of times since its launch in 2014, and several single choral works, including an anthem that was commissioned by the Lutheran Church of Singapore for their celebrations in 2017. Ken has also written a new joyous anthem specially written for this occasion and one that will lift the spirits. The concert will welcome several soloists, including Amy Williams from SA, local soprano Anita Senior, and the immensely talented Toby McKenzie, who is no stranger to the musical theatre scene in Victoria.
The concert will include several new works for solo voice or duet, including a beautiful arrangement of Psalm 19, translated and sung in French by Anita Senior. Toby McKenzie’s duet with Amy Williams promises to be one of the event’s highlights, as this new song forms part of a new musical that Ken is working on, relating the dramatic story of Alban, a Roman soldier in mediaeval Britain, who became England’s first martyr. All in all, these two events in Warrnambool and Hamilton will be a feast of music for the voice, and with the inimitable Craig Doherty on organ, the church roof may well take a good shaking!
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