Meet The Choirs
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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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.
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.
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.
MbM Contemporary Gospel Choirs
Motivation by Music Contemporary Gospel Choirs are inclusive of all abilities, believing that everyone deserves to experience the joy of singing together. Through connection, community, hard work and a willingness to say "yes!", we believe that excellence is possible. Founded and led by multi-award winning singer/songwriter, Choir Director and businesswoman, Emily Bollon, the choir enjoy learning songs with a rich lyrical content. Rehearsals, just like performances, are fun and engaging - full of laughter and precious moments of connection. MbM Merrow, MbM Woking, MbM Guildford and MbM At Home join together for ChoirBLAST.
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!
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
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.
St John's Community Choir
St John’s Community Choir are very excited to be part of the first ever Choir BLAST!
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.
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.
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.
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’.