Carol Singing in Hunshelf Parish

Although known as the Green Moor Carol Singers, the Singers are part of the Hunshelf Parish Council and thus part of the parish of Hunshelf. Hunshelf is a small rural parish on the western edge of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley. The tradition of singing local carols in the Hunshelf area goes back over 200 years.

Many people will know the titles of some of our carols although the words may differ. The tunes will be even less familiar as these were often written by local people and are peculiar to our area.

The parish council web site is being redesigned and in the new version a selection of our carols, in .pdf for the words and music and .mp3 for the various voices, will be included.

Rehearsals take place in the Providence Room, Green Moor Church, at 7:00 pm from early November and continue every Monday evening until just before Christmas Day. All are welcome to join. We are Singers, not a choir: we enjoy singing and that is the only requirement for new members.

The Singers support the efforts of the Wortley Top Forge by singing at the Christmas event. We also bolster the congregation at the Green Moor Methodist Church Carol Service just before Christmas, and we tour the parish on the last Monday before Christmas Day. The Parish Tour allows parishioners in Hunshelf to hear these traditional carols as they have been sung for many, many years outside in the streets. The Tour concludes with a visit to Underbank Hall where we are welcomed by the family and we sing a full repertoire.

Anyone interested can contact the Secretary via the Hunshelf Parish Council Clerk.

 

Tour of the Parish 2021

December 2021, the last sing of the night