What's New

May 2008

  Music for WGMA weekend at Ironbridge, May 2008. Click HERE

September 2007

  NEW CHOIR started in Bristol in September - see Bristol Harmony on Quires page for details.

June 2007

  NEW CD "Praise ye the Lord" from "London Gallery Quire" - click HERE for details.

March 2007

  New Article added : The Torrington Diaries.

February 2007

  MP3 files added to Resources pages - from CDs by "Purbeck Village Quire" - click HERE for details.

December 2006

  NEW CD "Christmas in Purbeck" from "Purbeck Village Quire" - click HERE for details.

December 2006

  HELP required in locating pre-1821 Missing Publications

November 2006

  New Article added: Church Music in NE Scotland in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

  Search facility added

  Book Re-issued - "The Music of the English Parish Church"

  New Articles added: Thomas Clark of Canterbury and Amram Taylor of Oxfordshire

October 2006

  Reports on York Church Crawl and on the WGMA presence at the Sidmouth Folk Week. Go to Articles page.

  New Book details added: The Church Gallery Minstrels of Old Sussex

September 2006

  Pictures added of Church Tours from various parts of the country. Go to Pictures page.

June 2006

  New Book details added: Ye Boundless Realms of Joy

  Details and Booking form for Autumn 2006 event at Ironbridge

April 2006

  New Article added: The "Real History" Wedding

March 2006

  New Articles added: John Fawcett of Bolton and Thomas Hawkes of Williton.

  New Book details added: Gallery Graces Old & New

  Introductory leaflets about West Gallery Music to download (PDF format)

  List of Workshop Leaders added.

February 2006

Index to music files on this website added. Link HERE (also link from Resources page)

January 2006

Booking form and details for May WGMA weekend at Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire added. Link HERE

December 2005

  NEW CD "Awake Ye Mortals All" from "The Gladly Solemn Sound" - click HERE for details.

  New Articles added: Prayer-book Churches and Decay in the English Church

  MP3 files added to "WG Favourites" CD page

November 2005

  MP3 files added to Resources pages - from CDs by Gladly Solemn Sound, Madding Crowd and Vital Spark.

October 2005

  New Articles added:

Rules for Singers and Uriah Davenport and the Psalm Singers of Rushton, Staffordshire
Image and music files added to article The Musicians of Rossendale
Reports on a Trafalgar Day Concert in 2000 and Rollo Woods' 80th Birthday.

  Gallery of Pictures from the WGMA weekend meeting at Ironbridge including music files.

  New Articles added: Reports on Jane Austen Fayre and Mid-Shires Quires' Day

September 2005

A makeover of the site with some sections rearranged as follows:

  Details of the Association moved to a new 'About Us' page.

  Rules of the Association moved from 'Articles' page and linked to the 'About Us' page.

  Pictures collected together in a 'Picture Gallery' page.

  Choir details have been reduced to brief descriptions and contact details as an increasing number of choirs have their own websites - links are given where known.

  The WGMA discussion forum and the WGMA mailing list details have been moved to the 'Links' page

  The Index to West Gallery, the quarterly Newsletter has been updated to issue no.35 (Autumn 2005) and can be accessed from the 'Publications' page.

  Organisations page has been subsumed into the 'Links' Page.

  Village Carols now has its own domain name and can be found HERE

  Articles - New articles have been added - William Knapp and Rev David Everard Ford. More articles to follow.

  The resources pages from Tony Singleton's website have been included in this site under 'Resources'.
These include books about the West Galley Period, anthologies of music, and recordings, as well a selection of literary references to the subject.

  The inclusion of this page which will be updated whenever significant change occurs.