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We are excited to announce Cambridge Timeline Choir’s summer concert: The Water is Wide – songs of shore, fen and tide.

The concert takes place from 7:30-9:30pm on Saturday 11th July at St Paul’s Church, Hills Road, Cambridge, and will take you on a musical voyage exploring water from the shoreline to the horizon.

From sailors’ stories and selkie tales to lovers’ laments and the forgotten voices of the fens, expect folk songs and poems alongside brand new choral works from acclaimed composers Alison Willis and Jonathan Brigg.

Tickets are available here.

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Thank you to everyone who came to our summer concert, SeedSpell, in July 2025!
It was a wonderful evening for Cambridge and Leith Hill Timeline Choirs, performing songs and readings from mankind’s centuries-old traditions of celebrating nature. The concert drew on themes of the evocation of remembered landscape, the symbolism of plants and herbs, and the freedom of birds in flight – on traditions of using nature to heal ourselves, and in return, our duty of careful stewardship of the natural world – and ideas about the fragility of our environment, and how we both define it and destroy it with human presence.
Two of the pieces we sang were commissioned by the choir for the University Library’s Curious Cures exhibition, which runs until December. You’ll also be able to hear them soon as part of the exhibition.
‘Flowers’, with music by composer Hannah Conway and librettist Hazel Gould, reinterpreted a C14th Anglo-Norman treatise on women’s reproductive health and menstruation, Sicom Aristotele Nous Dit (MS O.2.5 ff.123r-124v, at Trinity College Cambridge), which teaches women to use herbal remedies for ‘les flours des femmes’ – ‘the flowers of women’. The other, by composer Charlotte Baskerville, is a C15th ‘Charm Against Rats’ (from MS 457/395 f.1v, at Gonville & Caius College), invoking the Virgin Mary, St Gertrude, and St Nicasius to control nature at its most inconveniently exuberant!
Our next performance will be at Mill Road Winter Fair, Cambridge, on Saturday 6th December 2025.

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Exciting news! This Summer, the Cambridge and Leith Hill Timeline Choirs will be joining forces to create an evening of songs, charms and Earth magic: Seedspell on Saturday 12th July 2025.

Seedspell weaves music and words from across the ages into a powerful celebration of nature. From an 11th century charm to bless a barren field, to a modern day plea to preserve our rivers, our programme celebrates the ancient mysteries of the natural world, and our fragile position within it.  

We will also be singing two new commissions inspired by our collaboration with the Cambridge University Library’s Curious Cures exhibition. 

The concert takes place from 7:30-9:30 on 12th July at St Paul’s Church, Hills Road, Cambridge. 

Buy Tickets Here and on the door from 7pm

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It’s been an autumn term of mists and mellow fruitfulness…

Next chance to catch us singing is at the wonderful free celebration that is Mill Road Winter Fair!

Outside St Barnabas Church on Mill Road, Saturday 7th December, at 11am.

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The Cup of Poison

Folksongs of Foul Fiends and Dark Deeds!

Timeline Choir invite you to join us on Saturday 6th July at St Paul’s Church, Hills Road, for our summer concert: songs of foul fiends and dark deed across the centuries! Murder and misdeeds abound as we look at some of the darker sides of folksong, featuring poisonous relationships, gallows confessions and the song of Mad Tom of Bedlam. Not for the faint-hearted!

Find out more and get your tickets here.

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Although we are still only seeing intermittent sunshine we are looking forward to another summer term at Timeline Choir.

See you on on Thursdays at St Barnabas.

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Welcome back Timeliners! It was great to see you last Thursday. This term we will be finalising the programme for our concert ‘Pastime With Good Company‘ which is set for 3rd November in St Paul’s church, Hills road. The theme is eating and drinking songs! We look forward to seeing you in the coming weeks.