WE left the town hall to the strains of Thank you for the Music and those are my sentiments exactly.

This was another fantastic evening of song, provided by our local songsters and their special guest, Charles Ngandwe, who won television's Stars In Your Eyes as Paul Robeson.

Mr Ngandwe has such a rich voice, and friendly personality. He treated us to a selection of songs, from Without a Song, I Believe and Sea Fever, to a terrific Memory from Cats, John Denver's Perhaps Love, Solitaire and Danny Boy.

The audience clamoured for more, and simply would not let him leave the stage without singing Ol' Man River.

The men in red were in good voice, from gentle items such as Nacht by Schubert to the exuberant Zadok The Priest, where Maureen Bowkett played the difficult accompaniment superbly.

The programme also included a superb rendition of My Way.

The choir dedicated Prayer of the Children, written about the young who died in the former Yugoslavia, to the children of Beslan, where the Russian school children were massacred earlier this year.

The poignant words brought a tear to many an eye.

We were told the centenary concert in Birmingham raised around £10,000, from which donations have gone to Wyre Forest Mind, Grand Order of Water Rats (as compere Roy Hudd had declined a fee) and three local health centres.

The choir have never sung Rhythm of Life better than on Saturday, and they obviously enjoyed the "fun" items such as De Animals and This Old Man. This brilliant concert ended with an Abba medley. I look forward to the next KMC concert, on December 10 and 11, and hope Mr Ngandwe will visit again soon.

VJS