The Madrigal Society

The Madrigal Society is a British association of amateur musicians, whose purpose is to sing madrigals. It may be the oldest club of its kind in existence in England. It was founded by the copyist John Immyns. Sir John Hawkins was an early member of the club and, in his "General History of the Science and Practice of Music" of 1776, gives the date of its foundation as 1741; the earliest documentary evidence dates from 1744.
In April 1940, due to The Blitz on London, the Society suspended its regular meetings, but resumed them in 1946, after the end of the Second World War.