Description: A group of eight singers based in the Craven area of North Yorkshire, who perform in and around the Yorkshire Dales, giving concerts often by invitation from fundraising charities and similar.
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We are a group of 8 singers and an accompanist, based in and around Settle in North Yorkshire, who perform a wide range of vocal music, some of it unaccompanied, drawing from much of the classical repertoire of 16th-20th centuries (and even into the 21st!), and in a lighter vein from the jazz-and swing-orientated music of the first half of the 20th century.
Octameron was formed in 1996, although many members of the group have been singing together in one form or another for much longer than this. We have given a large number of concerts in our area over the years, often by invitation from fund-raising charities and similar.
Our aim is to make sure that our concerts include something for everybody. With this in mind we have an extensive and varied repertoire which includes music by such composers as Purcell, Tallis, Mozart, Bach, Byrd, Gabrieli and Vivaldi, together with Kern, Gershwin and Cole Porter. Gilbert & Sullivan and songs from the shows also feature in our concerts which include solo items as well as duets and trios and even, in appropriate circumstances, a barbershop quartet. We believe we can put together a programme