{"id":61,"date":"2025-10-05T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T10:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borgue.org\/kirkcudbrightchoralsociety.org\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:30:22","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/borgue.org\/kirkcudbrightchoralsociety.org\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Toward the end of the 19th<\/sup> century several choral groups were meeting in the Kirkcudbright area, but according to the \u201cKirkcudbrightshire Advertiser\u201d for Friday, the 28th<\/sup> of October 1892, the previous Monday evening, at their weekly practice, the Kirkcudbright Musical Society <\/em>formally constituted itself by the election of officials and a committee. In 1900 the name seems to have altered its name to the Kirkcudbright Choral Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following February the group gave its first concert with orchestra! With the exception of a brief break during the First World War, the Choral Society has continued unabated to this day. The repertoire has changed and evolved over the years from song medleys and instrumental tunes, to many years of very popular light operas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gallery below shows some of the operas that we performed from the 1950s to the 1980s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n