Watchet Community Choir is the greatest fun.

When Pete “the Poet” Stevenson and Graham Kennedy formed the choir, they invited everyone to join, no matter how badly they sang - 25 people turned up, discovered they could sing and performed for the first time at Queen Caturn’s night in 2016.

This year the choir, now 63 strong, returned for the event. It was a foul night, the wind swept the rain horizontally and it even snowed, but the singers lit up the square with smiles and laughter as they carolled happily through a programme of old favourites and a new song, Daughters of Watchet, written by local folk singer Angie Hardy.  

This choir creates joy and good humour, mostly because Pete the Poet’s enthusiastic conducting is so infectious. People love being in it, from school kids to the very old, which is why a little stream of people, some on their zimmer frames, others driving their wheeled chariots, all head toward Watchet Community Centre for Monday night choir practice at 7.30pm.

Come and hear the choir over Christmas and the New Year. It will be performing at Macmillan’s Light up a Life carol service at St Decuman’s Church, 6.30-7.30pm on December 12, Watchet Boat Museum 6-7pm on December 15, Watchet Royal British Legion Club 3-4pm pm on December 17, Watchet Methodist Church 7-8pm on December 18, Ingrams Meadow Singalong 6.30-7pm on December 20, the West Somerset Hotel 7.30-9pm on December 22 and at Pebbles from 8pm on Christmas Eve. Better still- come and join in!

Sam Westmacott, Watchet.