7 - Gentlemen Songsters offer vocal support

Archived news release from 2007

 

 

If successful in the bid, which has been showcased this week on ITV, money will help reopen the vast caverns and underground canals in Dudley to create one of Europe’s largest underground attractions.

 

The Black Country Urban Park bid includes the creation of a major visitor and education attraction at Wren’s Nest National Nature Reserve. The work would include stabilising and refurbishing the Seven Sisters limestone mines and subterranean canal basin.  Visitors will travel underground by boat and rise to the surface by an inclined lift.  A new interpretation centre will explain how 420 million years of geology led to the Black Country becoming the ‘workshop of the world’.

 

And the 60 members of the songsters, who are based at Kingswinford Methodist Church in Stream Road, have backed the bid.

 

 

“We are all behind the bid and hope the Black Country is successful in winning the money. We will certainly all be voting and we hope everyone else in the region will do the same.”

 

Telephone lines are now open and all people need to do is call 0870 24 24 604 from landlines and mobiles to register their vote. Calls cost just 10p from a BT landline.

 

“The songsters have pledged their very vocal support which is great. We really need everyone in the borough and beyond to get on the phone and back the bid. I hope people will call from home, work and from their mobiles until voting closes next Monday.

 

“The next 72 hours are absolutely crucial and we need everyone to get on the phone and dial 0870 24 24 604.”

 

The Gentlemen Songsters Male Voice Choir will perform their final concert of their 50^th anniversary year on December 15 at Dudley Concert Hall from 7.30pm. People can get tickets for the Charity Christmas Concert, costing £8, by calling 01384 838863.

 

Meanwhile, volunteers will be out and about across the Black Country this weekend to spread the word and encourage people to vote.