Author: Henry Foster

My singing 'career ' began in my local church in Burton upon Trent but lapsed when moving around the country with my NHS career, until I joined a mixed voice choir in Stockton on Tees. After about four years in this choir I heard of a new Barbershop Chorus which was forming in Middlesbrough and just one evening there as a guest converted me in 1983 to this wonderful music genre. I was learning to play the organ at that time and coincidentally found that one of the pieces I was playing was Wild Irish Rose, so even on my first night I ended up singing in quartet with this pole cat song ! My final career move was to Dudley in 1987 when I was delighted to join a much larger and better organised chorus with Anvil, and was part of the successful Chorus which secured the Bronze Medal at the Harrogate Convention in 1988. I cannot recall when I took over from Geoff Robinson as the Baritone Section Leader but I must have been in that position for about 25 years at the time of writing in 2019. I try to keep the Club moving forward as a member of the Music Team and am keen to see more public promotion of the Chorus and better recruitment initiatives.