Choir


Nicki

Welcome to the website and blog of Off Centre.

Off Centre was a choir based in Chichester, West Sussex. Unfortunately, with great sadness it was decided to close the choir in early 2019

Our Director of Music was Nicki Bennison. Nicki was the music specialist and a class teacher at Central Junior School in Chichester. In 1990 her school choir, (Central Singers), won the televised 'Sainsbury's Choir of the Year' competition. Consequently, both BBC and ITV made programmes about the choir and Nicki's methods of teaching singing.


The Choir

The Off Centre choir began in January 1989 under the directorship of Nicki. The primary aim of the choir was always to entertain and to sing any style - hence its' motto: "We sing anything, to anyone, anywhere (locally!)" - raising money for a wide variety of charities. For example, we sang sacred and secular, serious and light-hearted, classical and popular pieces.

Wednesday 19 April 2017

Sea of Songs 1st April 2017

The concert in the new Selsey Lifeboat Station was a huge success, raising £1675 for the Selsey Lifeboat.

The venue (not built for choral singing - but for housing the new Selsey Lifeboat) proved to have a lovely acoustic.  Feedback we received from members of the audience was very positive and we have been invited back to sing again in the future.

Source: Sue Lintott

We sang our usual mix of songs, ranging from "I do like to be beside the seaside" to a mix of traditional folk songs and spirituals.  Audience participation was also encouraged as they joined us for some of the songs. As we were singing for the lifeboat, we ended with "Eternal Father".
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