{"id":15638,"date":"2025-05-09T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/?p=15638"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:22:10","slug":"may-update-from-annie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/may-update-from-annie\/","title":{"rendered":"May update from Annie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-bottom\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 54%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear friends, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greetings from Annie.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favourite roles within CMM for the last fifteen years has been as musical director for CMM Choir.\u00a0 Since February we have been learning and rehearsing Roger\u2019s latest musical ZAC \u2013 and on Sunday 11 May we have the first of our <strong>seven<\/strong> local productions.\u00a0 Do come and see this uplifting musical \u2013 dates and venues are below.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Website-Event-Template-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15640 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Website-Event-Template-6.png 790w, https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Website-Event-Template-6-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Website-Event-Template-6-768x676.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Would you like to come and sing with us?\u00a0 CMM Choir is open to anyone who enjoys singing and fellowship, and the opportunity to share the good news through music.\u00a0 There is no need for you to audition, and you don\u2019t need to be able to read music, as we have words copies available. \u00a0We meet on Monday evenings at Harborne Baptist Church and on Tuesday evenings at Christ Church, Ward End.\u00a0 And if you would like to hear more about CMM Choir, do listen to the <strong>Heart &amp; Soul programme<\/strong> broadcast on <strong>2 October 2024<\/strong> (via the CMM website \u2018Heart &amp; Soul\u2019 archive), celebrating our 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary in 2020 (delayed somewhat by the pandemic!) and featuring favourite Roger Jones songs from the musicals chosen by past conductors and current choir members.\u00a0 And we hope to see you at one of our ZAC performances in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annie x<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>CMM Choir Dates 2025 &#8211; ZAC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Sunday 11th May &#8211; 6.00pm- Longbridge<br>Extra Care Village, Austin Way, Longbridge, B45 8TD<br>(parking freely available on central reservation of Bristol Road South)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Thursday 22nd May &#8211; 7.00pm- Harborne<br>St John&#8217;s Church, High Street, Harborne, B17 0ED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Sunday 25th May &#8211; 4.00pm- Edgbaston<br>Hagley Rd Extra Care Village, 322-336 Hagley Rd, B17 8BH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Saturday 31st May &#8211; 4.00pm- New Town<br>Pannel Croft Retirement Village, Hospital Street, B19 2XU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Saturday 21st June &#8211; 4.00pm- Donisthorpe<br>St John&#8217;s Church, 46a Church St, Donisthorpe, DE12 7PY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Sunday 29th June &#8211; 6.00pm- Kinver<br>Kinver Methodist Church, Enville Road, Kinver, DY7 6BU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Sunday 6th July &#8211; 4.00pm- Castle Bromwich<br>St Clement&#8217;s Church, Green Lane, Castle Bromwich, B36 0BA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>CMM Music Weeks 2025<\/strong><br><br>30th March-5th April<br>Beechwood Court, Conwy, North Wales&nbsp;<br>01492 593 405<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">2nd-9th August<br>Thornleigh, Grange-over-the Sands, Cumbria&nbsp;<br>015395 32733<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">16th-23rd August<br>Scargill House, North Yorks\u00a0<br>01756 760500 27th-31st October<br><br>The Pleasaunce, Overstrand, Norfolk\u00a0<br>01263 579 212<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/476969340_1052265143612085_5379181808470268768_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/476969340_1052265143612085_5379181808470268768_n-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/476969340_1052265143612085_5379181808470268768_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/476969340_1052265143612085_5379181808470268768_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/476969340_1052265143612085_5379181808470268768_n-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/476969340_1052265143612085_5379181808470268768_n.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, Greetings from Annie.\u00a0 One of my favourite roles within CMM for the last fifteen years has been as musical director for CMM Choir.\u00a0 Since February we have been learning and rehearsing Roger\u2019s latest musical ZAC \u2013 and on Sunday 11 May we have the first of our seven local productions.\u00a0 Do come and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cmm-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmm.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}