News
Christmas CDs now available!
The CD of our 2012 concert is now available - we will be selling them for £7 each at our concerts or you can contact
with your postal address and a cheque for £8.50 (to include P&P). The recording includes some well known carols, such as 'Kings come riding', 'I saw three ships' and 'Ding Dong merrily on high' but also includes carols specially composed by Lis Bayford and Les Roberts
Summer Concerts
Our next concerts will be in June:
A Taste of Summer with Cantiana
Celebrating Doddington's connection with the Croft family - for many years part of the famous Port and Sherry dynasty.
The concert has a summer feel, and will feature songs by The Beatles, The Beach
Boyx, Eric Clapton, Phil Spector, traditional Jamaican and many others. Tickets
£7 includes sherry and cake (non-alcoholic beverages available). Tickets
available from Doddington Garage or by calling Lis Bayford on 01795 886392. The CDs will be on sale! Hope to see you there or at the Faversham Festival concert (same programme). Look out for publicity about this event and more around the town.
Christmas Concerts
This year we premiered new carol compositions by Lis Bayford and Lis Bayford/Les Roberts along with a selection of carols from different ages and styles. In between the carols were readings and solo performances by choir members and musical guests and traditional carols for the audience to sing too. Newnham Church was festively lit with candles and there was mulled wine and mince pies galore. The Church was full, and it definitely finished off our 10th anniversary year in style. We raised £500 for the Fynvola Foundation in Faversham.
Faversham Festival
The concert as part of the Faversham Festival - performed at St Mary's Parish Church in Faversham at 7.30pm on Tuesday 21st June 2011
was a great success - the first time we have sung at St Mary's and we were wowed by it.
The accoustics are fabulous, the Church itself is a star..and we had a great audience!
So thank you to all who attended, we had a great time and we hope to do it again next year
- plans are already being made for the second Faversham Festival, and we have a slot on Tuesday June 19th at 7.30pm again at St Mary's.
Happy Birthday Cantiana Choir!
Cantiana Choir is 10 years old this year. To celebrate, we held a 10th Anniversary Concert on Saturday 28th May at the Avenue Theatre, Sittingbourne. We sang a selection of our favourites, including anthems by Rutter, folk-inspired ballads, gospel songs and pop - quite a variety! There were also solo items from members of the choir and Chrysalis, musical pieces and readings - and there was cake! 
Thank you to all who attended, including the Mayor of Sittingbourne - you were a great audience and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
Joined up singing
We have joined the Making Music network - the largest umbrella arts organisation in the UK, supporting nearly 3,000 amateur and voluntary music groups, including choirs, orchestras, music promoters, samba bands, festivals, handbell ringers, barbershop groups, brass bands, folk groups and many others.
Cantiana who?
Cantiana Choir welcomes adults of any age, creed or class who enjoy singing and like to perform in fund-raising concerts. We perform a Christmas programme in December, always at Newnham Church on the 22nd of December and often at other Churches and venues. We perform lighter music at other times of the year, mainly during the Summer, but we occasionally have a Spring show. The choir is affiliated to the Kingsdown and Creekside cluster of churches and enjoys singing for weddings and occasional special services. One aim of the Choir is to raise money for good causes, especially local ones. Last year we raised over £1600 for charitable causes.
The membership of the Choir is limited to 30, and currently we are just under that number. Members come from around the Newnham and Doddington area, Eastling, Wormshill, Faversham, Sittingbourne and even as far as Thanet. Rehearsals take place on Monday evenings (7.45 - 9.45) weekly in term time at Newnham Village Hall. There is a nominal membership fee to cover the rental costs of the village hall, payable termly.
Cantiana is a member of the Swale Arts Forum 
Membership
We are always interested to hear from anyone who interested in joining us, although at present we are limiting our recruiting to men - sopranos and altos are on a waiting list. The ability to read music, whilst obviously an advantage, is not essential. Please contact Lis if you are interested in joining us. We rehearse weekly on Monday evenings at Newnham Village Hall, 7.45 start - see our schedule for a list of commitments
We offer a wedding service to couples needing a choir in any of the 5 Benefice Churches: Doddington, Newnham, Lynsted, Wychling and Norton. We also sing at other locations, depending on distance and availability - contact Lis for more info.