de Merc - Commercial

Hiring Our Services and Joint Promotions

As well as promoting our own concerts, de Merc performs at other organisations’ events in a variety of ways. Here are some of the usual ones.

Music Societies who obviously have a vested interest in the interesting and unusual often approach us to perform at one of their meetings. We can chose an appropriate programme for them from our repertoire or they can discuss a theme to their own specifications with our Musical Director. We normally perform for a fee at these occasions.

Churches often have their own concert schedules and will either ask us to participate in this or to collaborate in a joint promotion usually to raise money for a project of their own. This has worked very well in small village churches who often do not have a choir in residence but really enjoy hosting a high quality concert for their parish. We frequently perform on a Saturday evening outside of our local area staying overnight in guest houses and then participating in the church services next morning. A hostelry with good food and real ale is particularly attractive to our singers and friends. We would normally share the net ticket sales with our partners in these joint ventures. We also enjoy singing evensong where churches do not have their own choir.

Weddings are subject to availability as many of our members sing in other church choirs and are therefore similarly engaged over the summer months. We can supply a small choir or quartet and the appropriate pieces for a wedding ceremony and again subject to availability, an organist or other musicians. We can discuss the fees for these occasions with you.

If you would like to discuss hiring the choir or barbershop group or promoting a joint concert, then

please contact: Adrian Jolliffe, our Musical Director on musical director@demerc.org.uk

or telephone Jane Fox, our secretary on 01279 428967

After-Dinner Entertainments are already much in demand for us to sing grace, entertain between courses, and after the meal is finished. We do however insist that diners listen to us during our short performances rather than talk amongst themselves. We have an extensive repertoire of light, amusing, and easy-listening pieces for both mixed and men’s voices (mainly barbershop). We would normally perform for a fee and hospitality.