Pielarks is a small community folk choir that meets in North Kingston every Monday morning. We're a friendly and sociable bunch, and the meetings are informal and light-hearted, though we take our singing seriously!

Repertoire

We sing traditional folk songs in harmony – rousing shanties and maritime songs, romantic ballads, pastoral and drinking songs, wassails, and songs of toil and trouble. Occasionally, we rise to the challenge of singing songs not in English.

Activities

We sing at local street parties, fairs and festivals, and in singarounds at folk clubs and in pubs. We have sung at events at the Rose Theatre, at a Canbury Bandstand summer concert, at joint concerts with other choirs and joint events with local Morris sides, and in a local nursing home and a club for people with dementia and their carers. Sometimes, when we perform at more formal events, we dress up as nineteenth-century agricultural workers.