About the festival

Sing Away CIC wanted to bring back a community choir festival to the Midlands and we were thrilled to achieve this in May of 2023.

It was so successful we are overjoyed to do it all again. This time we are spreading the festival over two days to allow more choirs to attend. Please choose your preferred day in the booking information.

The song leaders for the day are Bruce Knight, Carl Hodson, Sarah Masters and Louise Blackburn. They are all exceptionally experienced choir leaders, and workshop leaders working within the Natural Voice Network style.

We plan to teach a range of songs throughout the day from a range of different genres. During the lunch break there will be opportunities for choirs to busk and share some of their repertoire. After learning so many glorious songs we will have an informal concert where choirs can share a song on stage in the glorious town hall should they wish. Performing in the concert is optional and choirs who don't want to perform won't be disadvantaged in the application process.

We will finish the day with one last sing together of some of the songs we have learnt during the day. We can promise the day with be heart-warming, joyous and a celebration of singing and community. All

The planned timetable for the day is as follows (this is obviously subject to change but it won’t differ much)

From 9.30am Registration

10am – 11.15am Welcome, Warm Up and Session 1
Break

11.35am – 12.35pm Session 2
Lunch Break

1.30 -2.30pm Session 3
Break and Rehearsals for Choir Concert

3.15pm Concert

4-15pm Final collective singing session.

Bruce Knight, Carl Hodson, Sarah Masters and Louise Blackburn are all highly experienced choir leaders working across the East and West Midlands. Everything at the festival will be taught by ear in a call and response style.