THE countdown continues to Honley Male Voice Choir’s annual Subscribers’ Concert in Huddersfield Town Hall – which will mark the final farewell for the choir’s musical director Alan Jenkins and accompanist John Oldfield.

The concert, next Saturday, December 13. will be the last for the two musicians who between them have 60 years service with the choir. John Oldfield has been with them for 40 years and Alan Jenkins 20.

So the festive occasion will be tinged with sadness, but the choir is determined to pull out all the stops to make this a memorable evening.

For the fourth successive year guests for the evening are the Cory Band from South Wales, who won the European Championship earlier this year and finished third in the British Open and third in the British National championships.

Keith Roberts will officially take up the position of Honley Male Voice Choir’s musical director from January 1 next year. Keith, 36, is choral director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds and since 2001 has been working as a freelance musician – singer, teacher, conductor and composer.

Born in Dartford in Kent, he was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral from 1980 to 1985 and spent three years at King’s College, Cambridge, where he ran the college choir and orchestra.

TICKETS: costing £13.50 balcony, £11 area and £7 gallery, can be obtained from the Kirklees Information Office, Albion Street, Huddersfield. Tel 01484-223200