Develop
skills
During 2010 seven choirs from around the UK will run free
6-week courses to teach people in their local communities
to sing.
Participants will be taught the basics of singing, including
how to look after the voice and sing in harmony through
to performance skills and rhythm and voice development
across a range of different styles of music from rock
and pop through to the classics. They will not only learn
to sing with confidence and discover the joy of group
singing, but also secure the huge health benefits that
singing provides and meet new people.
Towards the end of the singing courses the participants
will be invited to attend their nearest Choir of the Year
Area Selection day, and may find themselves performing
on the stage of one of the UK's major music venues, alongside
some of the 200 singing groups taking part in the competition!
Learn to Sing in being funded by Arts Council England
as part of the wider Choir of the Year 2010 activity and
is managed by our partners Making Music and the British
Association of Barbershop Singers (BABS).
This project follows from Making Music’s hugely
successful pilot 'Learn to Sing' course in Egham last
year, which resulted in 60 new members for Egham Choral
Society and a further 80 who joined a new beginners singing
group - which is still going strong!
More information about the partner organisations, and
a full press release can be found here.
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