Celebrations all round as the chorus celebrate winning gold at the Sweet Adelines Region 31 competition in Newcastle.

Glenn Chaney, Director of Lace City Chorus, is delighted that the chorus will now compete in the world championship in St Louis in Missouri.

He said:  “I couldn't be more proud of the chorus, not only for the championship winning performance but also for the way every singer committed to the preparation. It is a huge privilege to direct this amazing group of fabulous women.”

At the national championship, the women performed ‘I have dreamed’ from hit musical The King and I and jazz hit ‘I Got Rhythm’ composed by George Gershwin which incorporated colourful choreography including director Glenn being dragged across the floor.

On Saturday 11th March we were thrilled to be part of the very first National Signing Choir Competition.

This wasn’t our first experience of signing musicians. Last October we organised a concert with local music groups and one of our guest acts was Radcliffe Community Signing Choir. The finale of the evening was to be Elbow’s One Day Like This and all of our guests would join in. In the weeks leading up to the concert we rehearsed with the choir and learnt the signs for the chorus of One Day Like This. It was more challenging than learning choreography! As we watched the signing choir perform that night we were in awe of the emotion and feeling that went into each song.

We love taking our music to all sorts of audiences and we're really looking forward to this event.

Southwell is well known as a centre of high quality music. If you've ever had the pleasure of attending an event at the Minster you'll know what I mean. The Southwell Music Festival is a fairly recent addition to the musical calendar but it's a great chance to experience all sorts of classical music and there is something for everyone. Check out the link at the end of this post.

Whilst our typical repertoire doesn't include much classical music (hence we're in the Fringe) we have been brushing up on a couple of old favourites!