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	<title>The Canterbury Gregorian Music Society</title>
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	<description>Promoting awareness and appreciation of Gregorian Chant</description>
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		<title>CGMS at the WCCM 2010 seminar in Canterbury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ 6 August 2010; 9:00 pm; ] Friday 6th August and Saturday 7th August
University of Kent at Canterbury
9pm for 9.30pm
The World Community for Christian Meditation is holding its annual seminar in Canterbury this year at The University of Kent. They are keen for us to provide some appropriate music during their proceedings. They have asked us to sing Compline on the Friday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2010/07/46/</link>
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		<title>Midsummer Chantness: 24th July at Greyfriars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ 24 July 2010; 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. ] Saturday 24th July  11.30-12.30
Greyfriars, Stour Street, Canterbury
We have been asked to run the little service commemorating St. Mildred which we did last year. It is very short, beginning with the Angelus at the traditional midday hour. This event forms part of the Parish festivities celebrating St. Mildred close to her feast day. We will have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2010/07/midsummer-chantness-24th-july-at-greyfriars/</link>
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		<title>Chant workshop on Saturday 1st May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ 1 May 2010; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] At St. Mildred's Church, Church Lane, Canterbury, CT1 2PP. Please arrive at 9.45 for a prompt 10am start!

This is a day long workshop for all levels of singer focusing on the different parts of sung Mass. The workshops will be led by Nick Gale, Director of Music at Southwark Cathedral so are a terriffic opportunity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2010/04/chant-workshop-on-saturday-1st-may/</link>
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		<title>Record labels just can&#8217;t kick the habit&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article on the BBC website today about Decca searching for the right group of nuns to hit the bigtime . According to one exec:
&#8220;When you hear the sound of nuns chanting, it&#8217;s like an immediate escape from the challenges, stresses, pace and noise of modern living. &#8220;
Decca is hoping to be as successful as this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2010/03/record-labels-just-cant-kick-the-habit/</link>
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		<title>Ascension Day Mass at St. Peters, Canterbury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ 13 May 2010; ] We will be singing Gregorian Chant Mass on the evening of Ascension Day in St. Peter's, one of Canterbury's mediaeval parish churches. Rev. Mark Ball has invited us to participate in this service. We hope to sing as much of the Ordinary of the Mass and the Propers as will fit in with Father Ball's [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2010/03/ascension-day-mass-at-st-peters-canterbury/</link>
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		<title>Chant but not as we know it!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A report on the Third CGMS Day of Chant by Helen Nattrass
A grey Saturday morning in January and our group gathered for the Byzantine Chant Day. Our teacher was Dr. Alexander Lingas, one of the leading Academics studying the music of the Eastern Christian Church. We began with a talk illustrating the antiquity of chant in the eastern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2010/02/chant-but-not-as-you-know-it/</link>
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		<title>Third CGMS Day of Chant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ 23 January 2010; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] Our third Day of Chant will focus on Byzantine Chant. The day will be led by Dr. Alexander Lingas, one of the leading academics in the field of Byzantine and Orthodox Chant. He is also a Cantor for the Orthodox Church as well as the founder and Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed choral ensemble [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2010/01/third-day-of-chant/</link>
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		<title>St. Thomas of Canterbury: Solemn Vespers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ 29 December 2009; 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] St. Thomas's Church Choir, assisted by other Parish choirs from Canterbury, sings Solemn Vespers in honour of St. Thomas of Canterbury in the Chapel or Our Lady Undercroft in Canterbury Cathedral. There is a lot of congregational singing of English psalm texts to Gregorian Chant. All are welcome.]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2009/11/st-thomas-of-canterbury-solemn-vespers/</link>
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		<title>Icons, inspiration and IPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 An icon of St Thomas of Canterbury made by Peter Murphy of Broadstairs, Kent. Part of the &#8216;Divine Dimensions&#8217; exhibition at St. Peters.
A report of CGMS Vespers at St. Peter&#8217;s, Oare by Helen Nattrass
As I approached St. Peter&#8217;s Church at Oare on Sunday 26th October, I felt as if I were ‘going to work&#8217; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2009/11/icons-inspiration-and-ipa/</link>
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		<title>Stick your Oare in!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ 25 October 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Vespers at St. Peter's church in Oare is rapidly approaching!

The service itself is at 6.30pm on 25th October at St. Peter's Church, Oare, nr. Faversham.

If you are interested in singing as part of the choir on the evening we are holding three practices to make sure that we can give a good account of ourselves.

We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gregoriansociety.org/index.php/2009/10/stick-your-oare-in/</link>
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