b'MusicThe Garrowby Singers is the Benefice churchSignificant services in which the choir choir. The choir is well established, having beenparticipates include an Advent procession, in existence for over 20 years. Members arebased on that in York Minster, the Good Friday drawn from all five parishes, and beyond. TheseCross of Christ and Remembrance Sunday.members share a love of singingand for eachThe choir feels privileged to offer additional other.Practices are held weekly, at Bugthorpemusic to further enhance services.CofE Primary School.A variety of hymn books are used across the The choir sings at the main festivals of theBenefice including Hymns Old and New, Hymns church year, and more besidesincluding theAncient and Modern, English Hymnal and York Community Choir Festival. When invited,Hundred Hymns for Today. We are fortunate the choir also sings at baptisms, weddingsto have an organist to accompany all services and funerals.In addition, the choir performsand one of the congregation plays the guitar two fundraising concerts each yearone atand sings devotional songs during communion Christmas and one in the summer. A localas well as supporting Family Service worship. charity is identified to benefit from fundraisingFamily worship also includes the children by way efforts at each summer concert and the fundsof tambourines, triangles and so on, which they raised at the Christmas concert are donated toenjoy and adds to the joy of worship.the Benefice. Such a range of events allows the choir to perform a wide variety of pieces.Daphne Smithson - Organist StRuth Beckett - Organist at All Saints,Anna Sargeant - Musician - St Ediths Marys Full Sutton and St AndrewsKirby Underdale and St Marys SkirpenbeckBugthorpe.Page 19'