Our last song is an original carol written by the incomparable composer and arranger, Chris Hoban. Chris has written many of Show Of Hands’ big hits including, ‘Lily and the Rose’ which he wrote for Miranda Sykes and The Lost Sound. We’ve performed this t...  moreOur last song is an original carol written by the incomparable composer and arranger, Chris Hoban. Chris has written many of Show Of Hands’ big hits including, ‘Lily and the Rose’ which he wrote for Miranda Sykes and The Lost Sound. We’ve performed this together with Show Of Hands, at their 25thAnniversary concert in The Royal Albert Hall in 2017. Chris explains the background of ‘Though We Lie Underground’ for us: I first came across the stories surrounding the curious tradition of West Country miners singing carols underground when listening to a recording of Alan Lomax’s extraordinary live BBC 1957 broadcast “Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year”, a feat of radio genius involving hundreds of performers and groups all over the country, seamlessly brought together for one scintillating hour. At one point, Lomax described how the miners of Devon and Cornwall would celebrate Christmas underground in an almost pagan fashion: they would select the largest lump of tin ore they could handle, set it up in...    less

[This article is a summary of a series that was first posted on my blog Chorus of aproval] Step 1 - Write it! A friend and I have written a Christmas song for Choir. It all started from a throw away comment by a Choir member just befor...

The Major Minors Children's Choir were awarded the HVCS Children's Chorus Cup in the Hutt Valley Performing Arts Society Open Choir Category competition held on Wednesday 17 July 2013 in Lower Hutt,  New Zealand. We did it! We bet last year's scor...

  LEARN HOW YOU CAN STAND A CHANCE TO WIN UP TO SGD $25,000! Event: 12th International Choral Festival Orientale Concentus, Singapore 2019 Date: 29 July - 1 August 2019 (4 Days) Location: Singapore Orientale Concentus, conceptualized in ...

Recorded live from AfterGlow's concert "Pandemic & Racism: What's Going On." Concert location: First Presbyterian Church, Oakland, CA Date: August 7, 2022 Swen Ervin, Creative Director Arnold Lee, Music Director Video Direction: Omid Zoufonoun

Vocals from Muzaria featuring soloist Libbie Chiverton, singing How Far I'll Go from Moana, on the Muzaria album Stage & Screen. www.darrenbartlett.co.uk Copyright DMB MUSIC 2000-2020 www.muzaria.com

The combined Choirs of Warwickshire Young Voices join forces in a Virtual performance this moving piece - learned, performed and recorded in under an hour at each rehearsal - to support One Day One Choir and also begin their support for the work of Save ...  moreThe combined Choirs of Warwickshire Young Voices join forces in a Virtual performance this moving piece - learned, performed and recorded in under an hour at each rehearsal - to support One Day One Choir and also begin their support for the work of Save the Children as WYV's charity of the year 2015. https://www.justgiving.com/Warwickshire-Young-Voices/  

Cover of the 80's classic song "Keeping the Dream alive" from the German group "Münchener Freiheit" in a new multivocal arrangement. This "Lockdown Session" was made with every voice on separate recordings during the Covid-19 lockdown.