Millhouse Green Male Voice Choir is a well established local choir with about 45 actively singing members, associated to the National Association of Choirs. We are based in Millhouse Green, a small village on the edge of the Pennine moors of South Yorkshire and have been singing together since 1967. We still have an original member singing with us today, in our top tenor section.
We practice at the Millhouse Green Institute on Monday nights at 7:30, and enjoy performing locally and nationally, and competing at festivals.
Each September we have an annual UK tour. We’ve been to many beautiful locations. In the past 5 years we’ve visited Liverpool, Brixham, Norwich, Coventry and the Lake District. Each tour is hosted by a Male Voice choir and concludes with a joint concert of joyous singing together.
2024: we performed both in Coventry Cathedral and outside in its ruins before enjoying a triple header concert with Rugby and Coventry Male Voice choirs.
2025: we went to the North East to sing with Sunderland and Hartlepool male voice choirs, as well as performing a lunchtime concert in Durham Catherdral.
More locally, our 24-25 season saw us perform with Thurlstone Brass Band, the Holme Valley Singers, Penistone Ladies Choir, the V&A Ensemble and the Dalesman Male Voice Choir. 2025 saw us returning to Eskdale festival where in 2024 we took third place in a very competitive male voice class, and this year won both the Male Voice category, and the Sea Shanty class.
Our team
Musical Director: Rachel Atkinson http://www.bannerdalemusic.com
Pianist: Philip Sutcliffe
Chairman: David Allaway
Deputy Chairman: Ray Hutchinson
Secretary: Richard Craven
President: Sue Christie
Section leads
Top tenor: Will Bisby
2nd Tenor: Ralph Shaw
Baritone: John O’Brian
Bass: Keith Bramhall
New members are welcome to pop by any week to have a listen, or to join us in singing. Although rehearsals begin at 7.30 there is tea and coffee available from 7pm each week. We’d love to see you!
There is no formal audition, but after a few weeks of coming along regularly to rehearsal we do a ‘voice check’ in with you, to make sure you are singing the correct notes, and that you are in the right team in our choir. This is important for your vocal support and to maintain the quality of singing we pride ourselves on in our performances!
Each team (TTBB) practices together outside of Monday nights, and supports one another with learning new music. Our section leads will help you! Everything we learn has audio tracks for you to work with individually too.
Once you are singing in the right voice team & you’ve been practicing with us regularly for around 4-6 months, our Musical Director will plan with you when you’re ready for your first performance with our choir in concert.
The choir has a busy diary of events (see the upcoming performances page on this website). We are also available for bookings for concerts and celebrations. If you would like tickets for a concert or would like to book the choir for your event please contact our Secretary Richard via email on mgmvc@hotmail.co.uk