IT will be a new-look Braintree Male Voice Choir that takes to the stage next month.

For their Spring Showcase concert on Saturday, April 6, at the St Peter ad Vincula Church, Coggeshall, they will be wearing their new uniform of charcoal grey suits and red bow ties for the first time.

It will be a departure from their original blazers, first brown and latterly navy blue, that they have worn since the choir was formed in 1971.

The suits will also be on show when the choir travel to London later in the month to entertain the Weaver’s Guild in front of the Lord Mayor of London, following an invitation from Richard Humphries, a member of the choir, who is this year’s Upper Bailiff of the Weaver’s Guild.

The choir’s guests at the concert in Coggeshall are the Swing Express Big Band.

The show will include a wide variety of songs, ranging from Wagner’s Pilgrims’ Chorus and Puccini’s Nessun Dorma to Irving Berlin’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band and the Four Seasons’ Rag Doll.

The band include Glenn Miller’s Tuxedo Junction and American Patrol, Rodgers and Hart’s The Lady Is A Tramp and Ray Charles’ Hallelujah I Love Her So.

Tickets cost £12, or £10 for concessions, and are available from Joscelyne Estate Agents, in Bank Street, Braintree, or by phone 01787 463848.