At this time of the year the Wayside Serenaders jettison the geographic qualifier in their moniker for a more temporal one… which is a ridiculously pretentious way of saying we change our name from Wayside to Yuletide.

We were hoping to open our Christmas campaign – all donations go to Crisis! – last Sunday but the weather was perishingly cold with first snow and then rain, so, if all goes a little better, weatherise, we now hope to be in central Lichfield between about 10.30am and high noon of Sunday 10, Saturday 16 and Saturday 23 December. Market Street outside the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum and Bookshop is our first choice, other buskers and rough sleepers permitting.

Hope to see you there, and, as in previous years, you can be part of the Yuletide Serenaders Massed Choir… all you need do is stand with us and bellow lustily (songbooks provided).

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