1st February 2025 - Coaching with Emma Shanks At the beginning of February we kicked off our Convention journey with another fabulous day...

As we start 2025 we take a look back at last year and recap on last month specifically. We managed to cram quite a few events into...

12th October 2024 Saturday dawned bright and early and the Belles arrived at Portholme Church to start setting up for our Anniversary...

The Abbey Belles were founded in April 1994 so this year marks our 30th anniversary! We've had a great start to the year with a fantastic...

Abbey Belles attended the Barbershop of IBeria Association (BIBA) Annual Convention in April. It's been a week since we got back from...

8th March 2024 We are lucky to share our singing and hobby with many inspirational women who all work together to support each other...

Joseph Rowntree Theatre 27th February 2024 We swapped our usual Tuesday night rehearsal venue for a rather grander affair this week -...

3rd and 4th February at Stableside at York Racecourse By Debra Finn The arrival of the Belle’s and the ensuing setting up of the room to...

9th December 2023 Well the rains came down and the floods came up but that didn’t stop the Belles from their Christmas Safari to Care...

17th October 2023 By Sueperb With just ten days left before the start of LABBS Convention 2023, the Abbey Belles Chorus were feeling...

Cleethorpes Music Festival - 17th June 2023 By Catrina Webb It's hard to believe that it was nearly 6 weeks ago that we had our trip to...

By Gill Swan One of our favourite songs is titled "The Climb" and it was our opening number at the York Community Choir Festival, hosted...

Written by Kyra There was a sad start to the year with the news of Anne Thompson's death. She was a significant part of the chorus for...

A Recap by Catrina Webb After months of planning, organisation and effort from many people, our concert finally took place on 17th...

4th September 2022 The Belles took the opportunity to solidify all our learning and coaching from Emma Shanks over the last few weeks by...

By Amy Crampton Unless you are not on Facebook, you will be fully aware that the Belles are putting on a concert in Selby Abbey on 17th...

13th August 2022 By Geraldine The Abbey Belles met outside Selby Abbey on Saturday 13th August at 10am – early because it was due to be...

Tickets for our concert are now available directly from Selby Abbey, or via our website. Please check out our events page here for...

We are putting on a charity concert in Selby Abbey on 17th September in aid of the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal - more information on...

18th June 2022 Last weekend saw the Belles travelling to Cleethorpes for our first competition since 2019. It was a fabulous day,...