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The Reverend Richard says:
“I am delighted to support Northampton Philharmonic Choir, which for more than a century has been turning people out to sing for the benefit of themselves and others. As a former chorister I know very well how singing in a choir can be one of the most rewarding of corporate enterprises. Indeed, I have sometimes thought that hitting the elusive sweet spot, when all are together in perfect harmony, is an intimation in this life of the kingdom of heaven. Thanks to everyone who makes it possible, and to you for your continuing suppport.
“To paraphrase an expression from a different performance art, in which my efforts presaged not heaven but another place, keeeeeeep singing!”
The Reverend Richard Coles is a Church of England priest in the quintessentially English village of Finedon, Northamptonshire, where two of his ancestors were Vicars in the seventeenth century. However, in complete contrast, more than a quarter of a century ago Richard was the instrumentalist half of pop band The Communards, together with Jimmy Somerville.
In 1990, after attending a mass at St Alban's, Richard was suddenly inspired with a new found faith. He returned to Anglicanism in 2001 and then in 2005 was ordained into the Anglican priesthood.
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