A GROUP of Canadian singers will be gathering this evening at St Mary & St Melor church, Amesbury for a concert featuring songs from the First World War.
The show will bring together 56 performers from Toronto, Kingston and Cobourg for the North Lakeshore Chorus, a choral tribute to the soldiers of the First Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Around 33,000 Canadians sailed to Plymouth in October 1914 before boarding trains bound for Amesbury. From the town they marched to training camps on Salisbury Plain.
They will be playing tonight at 7.30pm in collaboration with the Amesbury Church Choir and the Winterslow Singers. The Vice Lord Lieutentant of Wiltshire, council members and senior military officers as well as members of the Royal British Legion will be present. There will be refreshments a retiring collection.
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