Our Current Concert Programme
Enjoy an Evening of Great Music
We normally present 2, and occasionally 3 concerts per Season. Just scroll down to find out the details and how to book your seats. These are in addition to singing events like our "Come and Sing Workshop" (all welcome) event, which you can also find below.
Wincanton Together - Sat 11 Apr 2026
The Clare Langridge memorial concert
An Evening of Music and Performance from some of Wincanton's Performance based Groups and Guest Acts.
Time & Venue:
7:30 pm in The Main Hall, King Arthur's School
The Wincanton Choral Society is pleased to join this event organized by Wincanton Rokit Choir to raise funds in support of the Cardiac Risk in the Young Charity (www.c-r-y.org.uk).
We shall be performing during the first half of the programme, and shall be singing a selection of pieces from Sir Karl Jenkins popular Mass for Peace, which will form the backbone of our Spring Concert on the 18th May 2026.
Please support this worthwhile charity
Tickets only cost £10
Why not get yous now?
Spring Concert - Sun 17 May 2026
Venue:
The Sports Hall, King Arthur's School
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ "Dona nobis pacem" is a powerful cantata composed in 1936 as a heartfelt plea for peace in an era of rising international tensions and looming war. Written for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed chorus, and large orchestra, the work weaves together texts from the Latin Mass, poems by Walt Whitman, Biblical passages, and a political speech to portray the horrors of conflict and humanity’s yearning for reconciliation. The recurring phrase *“Dona nobis pacem”* (“Grant us peace”) serves as both a musical and emotional anchor throughout the piece.
The Armed Man : Mass for Peace - Karl Jenkins
The Armed Man is a mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins (1999) commissioned for the Millennium and dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis. It is subtitled A Mass for Peace” — a choral and orchestral work that blends the traditional Catholic Mass with texts from many cultures, religions, and historical sources. Beyond Latin liturgical texts (Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei), it includes the medieval French folk‐song L’homme armé, the Islamic Call to Prayer, excerpts from the Mahābhārata, poems by Rudyard Kipling, Tennyson, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, and other texts.
The piece traces a journey from the build-up to war, through conflict and destruction, to mourning and, finally, hope and peace. It opens with the sound of marching feet, a military atmosphere, and the L’homme armé theme. Then comes the Call to Prayer and the Kyrie, followed by cries, laments and scenes of horror. But it ends with a more peaceful outlook, both musically (major key, serene chorale) and textually.
Premiered in April 2000 at the Royal Albert Hall, It quickly became one of Jenkins’s most popular works,.
