About Wessex Women

A Women’s A Capella Choir Performing Songs from Around the World

How Wessex Women Began

 In 1992 at The Chard Festival of Women in Music an inspiring singing workshop was led by Sammy Hurden a Dorset based musician, composer and leader of her own a capella group. So enthused were the members of this workshop that they continued to sing together during the autumn and in 1993 Wessex Women was formed. The aims were

• to provide an opportunity for women to meet on a regular basis as a choir
• to develop their musical skills
• to research and arrange songs which had relevance to women’s lives, both past and present, with a view to sharing these through performance.

Wessex Women Now

 We sing a capella and perform our beautiful harmonies with love and joy.

We like to choose songs that have meaning for us as women and our repertoire includes folk songs, both old and contemporary, songs of protest, environmental songs, lullabies, songs of hope, songs from around the world and the occasional pop song.

Each year we introduce new songs, sometimes specifically composed for us, and/or arranged by our own members, creating something unique for our choir.

Where we perform

Wessex Women perform at a variety of events including festivals, charity fundraisers, local village and town events, and other recitals. We are available for performances across Devon, Dorset and Somerset.. We are a small group and perform with between eight and fourteen members depending on availability and requirements.

How to book our choir

If you would like us to perform at your event, however big or small, please contact us through our “Get in Touch” page. We normally charge a nominal fee to cover travel expenses

Any questions?

If you have any questions for us or would like some more information about what we do, please do send us a message through our Get in Touch page and we will respond to you as soon as we can. Meanwhile, you can see where we are performing next in our Performance Diary or you can listen to some of our song recordings at our Have a Listen page. Enjoy. We look forward to hearing from you.