Any fun singing/choirs we can join around here?

[rgutsell]

we are looking to join a group of adult singers or a choir, for people with no experience.

It will need to be fun and probably not "classical"!

Any ideas or suggestions?

R Gutsell

[buggie]

If your free during the day, there's hummy mummies which run East Dulwich sessions on Monday & Fridays (there is a hummy daddy at the Brockley group - more daddies welcome!)

Otherwise, might be worth looking into Nunhead Community choir, think they meet on a Thurs night at Ivydale School.

[MrsR]

Raise the Roof choir at Horniman Museum. Tuesday or Thursday 7pm - 9pm. Courses start this week ?85 for ten weeks. No audition and you do not need to read music.

[sallyfran]

Nunhead Community Choir sounds just what you are after. Come along to try at 8pm on Thursdays at Ivydale School. You can drop in and pay as you go, or sign up for a term if you prefer. Really friendly, good mix of ages and backgrounds, a good number of men (not always the case in community choirs). Currently singing Elvis (I Can't Help Falling in Love With You) and a Bob Marley mash-up. Other recent numbers include Imagine, One Day Like This (Elbow), Lazing on a Sunny Afternoon.

[Sue]

Dulwich Folk Choir meets upstairs at the EDT on a Tuesday night at 7pm, led by the lovely Aimee Leonard.

Mix of well known songs like "Down to the River to Pray" and "Bright Morning Stars", plus things like "Sally Free and Easy" plus traditional songs from Orkney, where Aimee comes from.

And usually some of the choir continue afterwards (without Aimee!) with an Alt Choir singing whatever comes to mind - Beatles, Kinks, obscure stuff from the musos in the choir :))

Also a good number of men, who sometimes outnumber the women :)

Also no audition and no need to read music, in fact there isn't any music, all learned by ear.

It's pay per session, ?4.

Spoilt for choice for choirs round here, it seems!

ETA: You may have seen/heard us at the Dulwich Festival Fair on Goose Green, or at the Crystal Palace Street Party, or at the Christmas Fair in Nutbrook (?) Road last year.

[caz]

Note-Orious, we're a very social community choir that meets 8 - 10 Monday nights upstairs at the EDT. We sing a mix of pop, rock,indie and show tunes. No audition needed and we are 50/50ish men and women. Have a look at our website www.note-orious.co.uk and on YouTube( Note-Orious Dulwich Choir) to see what we do.

[Coach Beth]

Goose Green Community Choir is a very friendly and informal choir. Many of us have never sung in a choir before and many of us do not read music. We are led my local musician Dan Maitland and we do a pop/folk arrangements. We are currently working on Lean on Me, a special arragement of the tune by Dan. We meet on Tuesdays 6:30 - 7:50pm at Goose Green Primary School. We then go to the pub afterwards for post-choir drink and social. Message me if you are interested! Cost is on a sliding scale: ?20 waged for 6 weeks or ?12 low or unwaged.

[Rita E]

Dulwich Rock Choir has recently moved to the Copleston Centre(church), Copleston Road,SE15 4AN. The acoustics are fantastic and we have great fun as well as learning some fabulous songs. We have just finished learning Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars and the harmonies are gorgeous!

We meet on Mondays from 8-9.30pm, no audition required and no need to read music. Why not come along tonight or next Monday for a free taster session? Contact rockchoir.com to book or just turn up.

We will be singing several of our songs on Sunday 6th October at 3pm at West Norwood Feast outside St Luke's Church, West Norwood SE27 OHS. Do come along and check us out. You will be most welcome.

I hope you find what you are looking for. Singing in a choir is definitely good for the soul:-)

[rgutsell]

Excellent list. Thanks for the replies.

We can't make Monday eve's (we go to ceroc dancing). We think we will try the Goose green choir next tuesday.

What is it about the EDT then; two choirs on consecutive days. Must be all that real ale. Lubricates that vocal chords.

Might I suggest that this thread is kept going? It's a valuable resource about a specific subject.

Yours Thankfully

R Gutsell

[Coach Beth]

Yes, indeed it is a great resource!

And tonight in the pub, we in the Goose Green Community Choir have decided that we would like to invite all the other choirs in East Dulwich to participate in 'The Great East Dulwich Choir Off' - we would like to have a fun, friendly evening of singing - each choir to sing a song or two AND then, having decided and circulated a song to our choirs prior to the evening, we can all sing together on one number. We would like to also use the evening as a chance to raise money for charity - in particular the Motor Neurone Disease Association for whom I do fundraising for at the moment.

I shall be PM'ing all the choirs in this thread - we are thinking Feb/March 2014. Possibly EDT upstairs if we can all fit! I'll be in touch shortly but if organisers of other choirs are interested, do get in touch through sending me a PM.

[Sue]

Thought Dan mentioned The Ivy House, Beth?

It would be lovely to hold such a community-based evening in London's first community-owned pub, and the Nunhead choirs could be involved as well?

It would also mean money from drinks bought went to The Ivy House rather than the EDT .....

Also, there's a proper stage! And a piano (if any of the choirs use one .....)

The Dulwich Folk Choir is presently learning songs connected with knitting, for a knitting-singing evening to be held in Dulwich Park! Aimee is teaching the knitters the songs as well!

Edited to add a link to The Ivy House website:

http://www.ivyhousenunhead.com/