Rock Choir, or any informal choir - do you?

My group is free!!

Fabulous, bravo.

The reality is, though, that our 'leader' is a young woman who has to earn a living. For now, no charge, as the local classical choir that disbanded last year, has awarded the money left in the kitty to the new choir to get it off the ground.

And premises have to be hired and heated.

I have sung in a rock choir, but I'm afraid I'm a perfectionist and prefer to sing classical works with people who know what they're doing. I can conduct if necessary and sight read.

If you really put your heart in it, an evening's singing is exhilarating and as good as going for a run, whatever the standard and whatever the repertoire.

JackyB

I have sung in a rock choir, but I'm afraid I'm a perfectionist and prefer to sing classical works with people who know what they're doing. I can conduct if necessary and sight read.

If you really put your heart in it, an evening's singing is exhilarating and as good as going for a run, whatever the standard and whatever the repertoire.

I think there is a place for both. I sing and have sung the classical repertoire with some crack choirs; but I also enjoy running my community choir. As you say it is exhilarating and I am delighted that these community choirs are taking off to give everyone a chance to enjoy singing whatever their standard. It is indeed very good for you! I know several people who have got over traumas in their lives and said that the singing helped them enormously.

We are lucky in that the village hall does not charge us for the hire, so I do not charge the singers anything.

Keep music live!!!

I sing in a local choir called Sing for Well-being. Always great fun and lots of laughs as well as singing. I did belong to Rock Choir for a few years but it was much more prescriptive and spent lots of the time learning parts so listening to others and not singing yourself. They do some amazing things but the small local choir is def for me. This year we’ve sung at a local outside Christmas event, did at Flash mob at the local Range, sang at a local church fair and tonight were singing - with lots of others - in a car park Carol singing session. Last year it was Lidl and we’ve often sung at care homes. You don’t have to be a great singer or read music - it’s just for fun!