The St Michael's Community Gospel Choir

 The St Michael’s Community Gospel Choir meet to rehearse in the church every Monday evening at 7pm and welcomes new members. No audition or previous experience is required. The Choir has performed at festivals around London. They especially love singing in Sunday services in HMP Wandsworth. The choir sing on the last Sunday of every month at the St Michael's Sunday 10am service.

The Choir is directed by Cecelia Wickham-Anderson who has  experience as a singer incorporating Gospel, Spirituals, Jazz, African and Caribbean genres into her repertoire, and is an accomplished workshop leader. Her passion for singing initially developed through singing with her family. Rooted in the black church, she began piano lessons, aged 9, playing for church services, and accompanying various groups and soloists in her early teens.
CeCelia has performed with various celebrities such as Mick Hucknell, Jules Holland, and Willard White and more recently Ray Charles, Take 6 and Wynton Marsalis with the Lincoln Jazz Centre Orchestra. She has performed at various Royal and Parliamentary events, in the presence of members of the Royal Family including Princess Diana and the Queen, President Clinton and Tony Blair, in such venues as the Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Halls, the opening of the Dome, Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Observance Day, The Royal Albert Hall and The Royal Opera House, Australia. She has also provided backing vocals for some well known Gospel artists such as Vicki Winans, Alvin Slaughter and Helen Baylor, and has made several television and radio appearances with Black Voices and the London Adventist Chorale.
In April 2000 CeCelia joined Black Voices singing tenor and bass. Black Voices, a female acappella quintet, “is one of the most solid and leading performance and teaching companies in the UK, sharing acappella, primarily from Africa but also throughout the Diaspora. The company, while inspired by Sweet Honey in the Rock, Mahalia Jackson, Take Six to name a few, has, since inception, forged its own dynamic way of distilling and representing black music from an African, Caribbean, Black British perspective.
Grounded in the black church, the group presents acappella, both sacred and secular, which challenges, is captivating and entertaining. From Gospel to spirituals, Caribbean to African, jazz and blues”. The Guardian
CeCelia is the Music Director for 3 other community choirs throughout the UK. She has recently been nominated for Best Musical Director for the Black Theatre Awards for “Jamaica Love.”

If you'd like to try the choir, come to a Wednesday rehearsal or email Cecelia here