Meet The 2024 Choirs
We Are The Voice Children's Choir
We Are The Voice is a children’s environmental choir. Winning hearts and minds with haunting, rousing melodies and luscious, layered harmonies, the choir hopes to inspire positive environmental change one song at a time.
All the choir’s material is original, and since its formation in 2019, the choir has performed from The Houses of Parliament to COP26 in Glasgow, Hampton Court Flower Shows, Music Festivals, brought their I AM THE EARTH show to theatres and the iconic Disneyland stage in Paris.
They have also performed at environmental award ceremonies, themselves winning a coveted Green Apple Award.
The Big Choir
The Big Choir was formed in 2016, specifically to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
To date we have donated £260,000 to the Francis Crick Institute in Kings Cross, for research into all cancers. We are a no audition, community choir and we have a lot of fun! We currently have two groups, one in Barnet, and another in St Albans, both 100 strong and all singing in beautiful harmony.
We sing anything from Rock, to pop, gospel and country. Our members often come to us with no previous experience, but soon become hooked and love being part of our warm choir family.
We love to perform and have had some lovely bookings over the years.
The Big Choir is a place for anyone who just loves to sing. We have made so many wonderful memories over the years, and managed to keep everyone singing throughout the dark times of the Pandemic.
We hope you’ll enjoy our offering at Choir Blast! We’re so excited to be joining everyone on the day.
MbM Contemporary Gospel Choirs
Learning uplifting songs with meaningful lyrics - including originals by inspiring award-winning Founder and Choir Leader, Emily Bollon, MbM host weekly choir rehearsals in Godalming, Guildford, Merrow, Woking and even virtually from the comfort of your own home!
Free from auditions and sheet music, MbM delight in embracing those who feel they can't sing into this incredible community, and together enjoy the transformation that singing together brings.
Connect with MbM on socials at @motivationbymusic and ask about thier free taster sessions!
Tongue & Groove
Winners of the 2021 Community Choir Festival, Tongue & Groove are an amateur choir that teams a professional Musical Director from theatre with talented and dedicated amateur performers.
We are all about engaging with the audience and putting on a good show.
Born in 2017 from a love of performing, Tongue & Groove is a Southeast London vocal
group that is all about engaging with the audience and putting on a good show.
One of our singers describes Tuesday night rehearsals as being “Super-food for my mental health”.
We are thrilled to have been invited to sing at ChoirBLAST!
Guildford Rock Choir
Rock Choir is the UK’s leading contemporary award-winning choir experience offering local weekly rehearsals, performances, and life-affirming events to more than 400 towns and communities across the UK.
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Rock Choir was created by singer and musician, Caroline Redman Lusher and remains a family-run organisation originating in Farnham, Surrey in 2005.
The choirs have been run for the past 16 years by Thomas George and performed in a number high profile performances both locally and across the whole of the UK raising in excess of £300,000 for charity in that time.
Kudos Gospel Choir
After winning the BBC’s Songs of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year 2024, Kudos is looking forward to inspiring new audiences near and far.
Kudos Gospel Choir is a vibrant and passionate musical collective that exudes the joy and power of gospel music.
Formed in November 2019, just four months before the onset of global lockdowns, Kudos Gospel Choir has persevered and has had the privilege of uplifting people through some of their most challenging times.
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Backstage At
The Meath
The Meath Backstage Choir is the vocal group created at The Meath Epilepsy Charity. This joyously effervescent choir brings the people supported by The Meath Epilepsy Charity together each week to sing their favourite songs while signing in Makaton. The Choir have performed at Meath events, St Clement Danes Church in London and have even surprised local shoppers with a supermarket flash mob! These performers will have you on your feet but also will pull at your heartstrings. A choir not to be missed!
Cora
Much like their namesake, Cora, the Goddess of Spring, The Cora Quartet’s harmonies will lift your spirits and bring a little extra joy to your day. With soulful passion, their four warm voices blend flawlessly in reimagined versions of your favourite jazz standards, contemporary pieces and original arrangements. The full female line-up invites you to get your feet tapping and hands clapping to their melodious performances. This professional quartet will blend beautifully into your day.
Guildford Jazz Choir
This choir brings the old and the new together, singing jazz classics to contemporary hits. A youthful group of people who know how to have fun while performing their hearts out. Led by Phoebe Gaydon and accompanied by Atalia Welch, these performers will get you dancing and singing along.
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Little Town Choir
Born out of friendship & a love of music, Little Town Choir has evolved from 12 to nearly 80 strong over the past 2 years.
Lead by Hannah Holley (Musical Director) & Rebbie Wellwood-Green (Co-Founder), LTC brings banging songs, big community & even bigger heart - the best kind of alchemy.
Striving to create an experience that feels as good as it sounds, LTC is a musical sanctuary for one & all… and all from the Little Town of Petersfield.
A Capella
A Cappella is a small choir from Edenbridge, formed at the new Millenium. We started out as a group of mums and teenagers and have gradually blossomed into a satisfying blend of harmony for upper voices, covering a wide range of genres from folk to contemporary.
We enjoy singing at local community events and special occasions and have developed a reputation for specially themed and seasonal programmes. As our repertoire has grown, we have been privileged to perform at prestigious historical venues and this year were thrilled to be among the choirs entertaining Christmas visitors to the Tower of London.
Music Kids
Music Kids is a fun-singing group for children from 5+ to teenagers, meeting at
Godalming United Church Fridays from 6-6.45pm in term time.
They sing a huge variety of songs from short verses to songs from the musicals
performing at Care Homes, the Godalming Bandstand, Garden Parties, the Pepperpot and Godalming United Church
services, conducted by our MD Dr. James Turner.
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They are always looking for new members!
Choir Leader Meet-Up Choir
In 2018, local choir leader Polly Murray set up Choir Leader Meet-Up as she recognised a need to get together with other community choir leaders to talk all-things-choir.
The group grew quickly and they met leaders from further afield, but it was during the Pandemic that it really came into its own. They enjoyed regular support meetings on Zoom, making global friendships along the way.
Since then, they continue to meet in-person at their new home, the Lightbox in Woking.
They couldn't resist forming a choir of leaders and so the 'Choir Leader Meet-Up Choir' now exists purely for ChoirBLAST!
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Choir Leader Meet-Up Choir is sponsored by ChoirCommunity
Guildford Vox Community Choir
Guildford Vox is a popular community choir who meet on Monday evenings at St. Mary’s Church, Quarry Street, Guildford.
Their repertoire consists of contemporary and traditional songs from the British Isles and around the world. They learn by call and response and sing rich, unaccompanied harmonies.
Soundbytes
Soundbytes is Ashtead's community choir, set up in 2009 by its founder and musical director, Hazel Hannam. It now boasts a membership of around 45 singers from Ashtead and beyond.
At the end of each term the singers put on a FREE concert to not only showcase to friends and family what they've been
working on during the term, but also raises money for local
charities. So far this has totalled over £32,000.
Their repertoire is drawn from mainly pop but will also include
songs from the worlds of jazz and folk, in 3- and 4-part
harmony. Singing; it’s a matter of Life and Breath!
Godalming Community Gospel Choir
GCGC is a community gospel choir based in Godalming. We sing a range of contemporary and traditional gospel from the UK and USA, and we love performing at concerts, charity events, prisons and weddings.
We are a true community choir,
open to all and our choir members come from all walks of life, faith and no faith.
We welcome new members to come along to one of our Taster evenings at the beginning of each term.
There’s no need to read music, just a desire to sing gospel.
In Accord
In Accord is a Guildford based ladies a cappella group. Its aim is to develop singing craft at
both individual and group level. They have a high standard of singing, but also enjoy having
fun when rehearsing and performing!
They can adapt to perform at any venue or function, and tailor the programme to the needs of the audience. They often include a demonstration of how their harmonies are formed, and encourage everyone to sing along.
Their Musical Director is Sue Lampard. If you’d like us to perform or are interested in
joining, please get in touch.
Wholenotes Community Choirs
Wholenotes Community Choirs are for those with social anxiety, a learning disability and/or autism.
The choirs rehearse at Guildford United Reformed Church and Camberley Theatre.
The choirs are for anyone aged 18+ who can attend with their carer or independently.
Wholenotes is a not-for-profit organisation set up and run by Alison Wrigley to enable the members to make friends, develop interpersonal skills, feel a sense of achievement and to help raise self-esteem and confidence through the power of singing and music.
Archway Choir
Archway Choirs are three non-auditioned community choirs from East Sussex; operating since 2009 and comprising two CCs and one GC. We perform and collaborate together a few times a year.
Our strength is our connection to each other. There are songs and arrangements in our repertoire that speak directly to the human experience. When we perform SATB arrangements with dramatic and emotional ranges that speak of love, loss and the battle of life, we are truly at our best. It allows us to join together in a poignant union celebrating the community we have all built and that we are so very proud of.
"In my heart, and as the person looking at every single face and leading them forward when we perform, there is something unique and transcendent that happens when we perform motivational and unifying songs together. That’s who we are. We are safe enough together to surrender our souls in the shared experience of singing with, and for, love and peace." - Jane Reeves
ToC Voices
ToC Voices sing uplifting and meaningful pop songs with beautiful harmonies specially arranged by our very talented choir leader, Emily Bollon of Motivation by Music.
Our members are cancer patients, carers, supporters and survivors with unique stories.
Together, we are thriving and embracing the benefits that singing brings to both physical and mental health, and... we sound amazing!!
ToC Voices is fully funded by Guildford-based immunotherapy charity, Topic of Cancer and love to welcome new members!
Earthly Voices
Earthly Voices is a community choir that meets on Thursday evenings in Cobham, Surrey.
They sing mainly unaccompanied and have an eclectic repertoire including pop, folk, classical and world music. There are no auditions to join, just enthusiasm for singing and a willingness to try something new. Rehearsals are fun, occasionally uproarious, and led by the very talented Emily Leather.
Earthly Voices describe themselves as a caring community where friendship and the joy of music binds them together. They are always up for a bit of fun, and are looking forward to sharing their music with you.
Ready Singer One
Have you ever heard your favourite songs from Skyrim, Pokémon, Persona 5 etc... sung in glorious 6-part harmony?
Ready Singer One, London's nerdiest choir, shall make your dreams come true. Embark in a performance of Video Game iconic songs, sung by a 40-person-strong group.
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Ready Singer One is the only choir in the UK to exclusively sing songs from video games and Film. Their energetic performances have delighted audiences in various places such as the Science Museum, Comic Con, and on BBC Radio.
They can't wait to sing (and shout, at times, in Dragon Language) for you!
Surrey Fringe Chorus
The Guildford Barbershop Harmony Club (AKA Surrey Fringe), is one of the first Barbershop Clubs to be formed in the UK, and has been running for nearly 40 years.
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The Surrey Fringe is a group of male four-part harmony singers. We teach people to sing, we perform at public and private functions, and participate in local music festivals. We have competed at the British Association of Barbershop Singers conventions.
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Support for local charities is another of our priorities. Each year the members nominate a charity or charities to receive surplus funds from our Concerts and ‘singouts’.
Shefford Community Choir
Established through a rousing community carol sing-along, the Shefford Community Choir (Central Bedfordshire) celebrates its first year of fostering joy and connection through song.
Founded by local musicians, the choir provides a welcoming space for singers of all abilities. Here they can rediscover old favorites, refine their vocal skills, and build lasting friendships, all while experiencing the well-documented mental health benefits of singing. Their repertoire brings warmth to care homes, enlivens community events, and adds spirit to festive occasions.
The choir has even hosted inclusive pub singalongs, demonstrating the unifying power of music. Celebrating their first year, the Shefford Community Choir embraces every performance opportunity, eager to share their passion for music and its positive impact on the community.
Natural Voices Choir
Natural Voices Choirs' are funky, inclusive community choir, taking the stuffiness out of choirs!
All original vocal arrangements by founder Lizzy Renihan, (former West End performer) uplifting pop, soul, jazz and anthems. Choirs in Woodford, Walthamstow, Ibiza and The Isle Of Mull!
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Their credits include: The Jenny Barnett Show on BBC Radio and BBC3's 'Don't Tell The Bride'. Lucy Worsley’s BBC Christmas Carol Odyssey, Hugh Jackman Concert 02 Arena,
Take That Tour-Milton Keynes & 02 . BBC PROMS 2019. Part of ‘The Nest’ soundscape by Erland Cooper.
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They love sharing their uplifting sound with their crowds and getting everyone feeling happy.
Bloom Choir
Bloom Choir are a collective of singers from East London and Essex.
Formed in 2023, they rehearse once a week, singing everything from Pop, Soul, House and Musical Theatre.
With Community at its core, Bloom Choir sing at charity events and most recently, became first place prize winners at the Stratford and East London music festival.
Bloom Choir are inspired by uplifting music with positive lyrics and they aim to uplift audiences whenever they perform.
No Strings Attached
No Strings Attached are a five-piece a cappella group based in Cuckfield, West Sussex. They first took shape as a six-piece folk a cappella group in 2012 and performed together for the first time at Crawley Folk & Beer Festival that same summer.
With just a couple of line-up changes since then, they have performed on over 150 occasions throughout Sussex and occasionally beyond.
Nearly all of their arrangements - mainly of pop/contemporary classics but with a handful of folk and other genres - are developed by the group as a whole during rehearsal, or even after the rehearsal, in the pub!
No-one conducts, anyone can take the lead and they all revel in the sheer enjoyment of singing in harmony.
Harmony Community Choir
Harmony Community Choir was born out of the pandemic to bring people and communities back together.
We aren’t run as a business but as a safe space for people to come, express themselves and be uplifted by the power of music and singing together.
Our strap line is: ‘A pocketful of joy’ and we focus on the connection between each other, not perfection. During our two years together we have helped raise money for local community projects and had a whole lot of fun during the process.
Wey Community Gospel Choir
We are a Community Gospel Choir who are passionate about connecting people through singing. We believe music has a great power to unite, to create as sense of community and to boost our wellbeing. We offer opportunities to grow as a singer, at the same ti as welcoming all abilities. The choir is a place to develop your individual skills, as well as somewhere to embrace the joy of singing in a group.
Most of our repertoire is gospel music, although we do incorporate other styles that share an uplifting feel. There are no auditions and no need to be able to read music. We teach to all ages and abilities. We have performed in a variety of setting, which include public concerts, private functions, weddings, churches, prisons, residential homes and schools.
We are fully inclusive and our members come from all backgrounds and religious persuasions (or none). As a community we have a great social life including trips and activities. We suspect several of our members join for our weekly after rehearsal trip to the pub alone!
Blend Choir
The first Blend Choir was set up in January 2013 to give local singers a place to go once a week to sing, socialise and have fun. There are now five Blend Choirs and over 170 members.
The choirs have enjoyed performing at various events including The Olivier Awards, West End Live, Disneyland Paris, The Ideal Home Show, The London A Cappella Festival & many more. Each year, our choirs come together to perform summer & Christmas concerts for friends, family & followers of our groups.
There is no pressure to sing solo lines or even perform. Some members prefer to come along each week and sing without taking part in the concerts and events. There are NO auditions, no sheet music and everyone is welcome. We cover a whole range of musical styles from Musical Theatre & Disney to Motown & Pop favourites (old & current).
Landmark Show Choir
The Landmark Show Choir is in its 12th year and we are excited to perform for the first time at ChoirBLAST.
More than just a choir, we are a real community, a place to make friends as well as sing together.
Sessions are fun and inclusive, learning uplifting popular songs mainly from the classic 70s and 80s era with easy harmonies for all levels. We perform regularly, often helping raise funds for charity.
Full Circle Vocal Group
Full Circle Vocal Group was set up in 2009 by Polly Murray because of her love of music. They started off at a small community cafe, tripled in size, and now call Farnham Maltings their home. Now in its 15th year, the choir, with some original members, has performed at many events in the town - Vic Cracknell's open mics, Birdworld and their famous friends and family concerts, raising money for charity along the way.
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Polly was nominated by two members of her choir and won the Services to Farnham Award for her outstanding contribution to Farnham through music.
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Community has always been at the heart of everything they do, and they'd love to welcome new members.
Sevenoaks Sings
Sevenoaks Sings is a proud and passionate, not-for-profit community choir that brings together people of all ages and backgrounds.
Run by their members, they hold a really warm and friendly place that has true community spirit in its heart - and are as much about building beautiful friendships as beautiful harmonies.
Musical Director Philly Lopez is the dynamic powerhouse who brings energy and vitality to the choir’s rehearsals and repertoire. Philly has a string of professional credits to her name, and has worked with some of the best in the business.
Their repertoire includes contemporary pop and rock, folk, soul and Gospel.
South of Broadway
South of Broadway, the jazz vocal harmony group from West London, was first formed in 2009 when a group of jazz singing friends noticed a distinct lack of multi-harmony vocal groups in the West London jazz scene.
After plotting for a while and some impromptu performances, the group was born – taking their name from the rehearsal space they first used, south of Hammersmith Broadway.
After a hiatus during the pandemic, they have reformed, and performed in a number of top venues in London, including selling out at The Pheasantry Pizza Express jazz club in Chelsea, performing to fund raise for the Ukraine, and more.
Village Voices
Village Voices an unauditioned community women’s choir that has grown from the initial 12 members, many of whom still sing with them, to a flourishing organisation of around 85 women.
They have been together for 19 years and have sung in the Royal Albert Hall as well as prestigious venues in Paris, Prague, Belgium, Vienna, Italy and Bratislava. Their members come from villages and towns around Seer Green in Buckinghamshire, and they enjoy singing a wide range of repertoire from blues to Bach, and gospel to Gershwin. Over the years they have raised many thousands of pounds for local charities through their major end of season concert in the autumn.
Seer Green Singers
Seer Green Singers formed in 2013, and is based near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire.
They are a community men’s choir that is a little different to the conventional male voice choir.
They have performed in many local venues, sung at the South Bank, in Hull as part of the City of Culture 2017 celebrations, and in 2019 performed in the International Festival of Male Voice Choirs in Cornwall. Last autumn they traveled to Yorkshire to sing alongside the Leyburn Community Choir and Leyburn Brass Band.
They sing a wide range of repertoire, and take pride in their enthusiastic and committed performances.
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St John's Community Choir
We are a non-profit community organisation set up to provide a place where people
of all ages and abilities can join together to enjoy singing. We rehearse at St John’s
Memorial hall in Woking, Surrey
We sing music from around the world, English folk songs and contemporary arrangements of some old favourites. We formed in 2014 and currently have around 35 active members. We perform several times each year at charity events, local fetes, pubs, nursing homes, Christmas light events, joint concerts with other community choirs.
A highlight for us was performing at the Community Choir Festival in Stratford upon Avon.
The Choir is conducted by the amazing Laura Davies. Laura has a passion for music
from around the world and strongly believes that everyone can sing and make music,
and that music encourages confidence and communication. Laura has a sense of
humour that is simply infectious, our rehearsals always contain a lot of laughter, as
well as lots of singing!
Surrey Harmony
Surrey Harmony has been established for over 25 years and is a women’s chorus
based in Coulsdon, Surrey.
The chorus is part of the global barbershop organisation,
Sweet Adelines International.
Surrey Harmony is a group of friendly, fun-loving women who meet each week to
enjoy the pleasure of singing four-part a cappella in the barbershop style.
We sing
for fun, to entertain and in competition.
Academix
Academix are a contemporary a cappella vocal band based in Woking. They sing close harmony pop and jazz classics from the 1930s to the present day. Anita, Cate and Cat form an engaging trio of female voices, backed by the beatboxing, body percussion and bass groove of Jonathan and Neil. Since 2014 they have performed at the Guildford Fringe, the Brandenburg Fringe in London, across the south east.
Cascade Chorus
Cascade Chorus was founded in 2002, with a group of around 30 local women.
Our ages range from 22-75 with different backgrounds but we all have the same passion for singing. Singing brings us together, helping us to make new friends, learn new songs and have lots of fun along the way.
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We are Barbershop singers which means there is no backing music, we just use our voices. The chorus is split into four singing parts. Tenors sing the high harmony, Leads sing the main melody, Baritones weave around the main melody and the Basses sing the low harmony.