Bathgate Concert Orchestra ( BCO ) is a voluntary organisation of amateur and professional musicians based in West Lothian in Scotland. The Orchestra meets every Friday in Bathgate for rehearsal, fun and sometimes, musical performance. The Orchestra likes to perform accessible, local concerts, throughout the region to encourage wider participation and audience development.

The Orchestra enjoyed a membership of 28 full-time members and 21 guest musicians in the last season. This gave the opportunity to rehearse and perform a wide selection of popular show music, light classics and even two very successful celebrations of Handel’s ‘Messiah’. This programme of concerts also included several Christmas carol services and a special show for the elderly and disabled.

The membership of the BCO is from a wide spectrum of the whole of West Lothian and its neighbouring regions and its policy of open access has attracted a balance of age groups with 12 students and 11 concessionary members. Members of the Bathgate Concert Orchestra travel from Livingston, Linlithgow, Mid-Calder, West-Calder, Fauldhouse, as far as  Falkirk and Kincardine. Car sharing and lifts may be arranged to help members with travelling to rehearse or perform with the BCO.

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