COVID-19 / Coronavirus Update

We are hoping to return to live rehearsals in February, for January we are going to return to Zoom rehearsals to keep everyone safe

We did get 9 choirs back late 2021 we rehearsed with social distancing and mask wearing every other precautions.

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The last couple of years have undoubtedly been hard for us individuals, families and businesses.  Sing in the City moved everything online during lockdown, provided additional classes and activities (book club, guitar lessons, art lessons, dance classes etc) and eventually managed to get back to live rehearsals in August 2021.  This is the time of year where we all want to start new things and have new resolutions.  Make friends, get back to socialising, sing, make music, improve mental health.  We can help you with all that in 2022.

To keep everyone safe and to avoid being closed down with COVID, we are going to return to zoom rehearsals for the month of January and hopefully return to room rehearsals around February.We will still have rehearsals at night and during the day.  We provide assisted choir places for members who are on lower income (please ask).  Our aim to make singing and music as accessible for everyone as possible.  At Sing in the City we consider ourselves to be more than a choir.  If you are looking for a friendly, fun, inclusive choir with a family feel, then come and take a FREE trial.  Join the choir that during a pandemic, had a No. 3 hit single, raised over £14,000 (raised over £144,000 in total) for charities and donated 59 Alexa speakers to Scottish Carehomes  and started our own radio station Chief Radio

Join us now to take part in the Usher Hall show on June the 19th 2022 with the Hanley and the Baird band.

We are chasing dreams, making memories and have music, social, community and friendship at the heart of everything that we do.  We are very proud to have created an environment where age and ability are irrelevant but don’t take our word for it, come and speak to our team, our members and see for yourself.  You can join a choir in many locations, have a look at our choir pages.

We have a concession price for members who are over 65. Our attention to music, social, community and charity is second to none.  

SMILE – By Kirsty Baird, performed by Hanley and the Baird and Sing in the City.

https://www.facebook.com/hanleyandbaird/videos/850253288684173/?t=77

Choirs

Let's get back to singing

We kept singing right through lockdown, we sang online and kept everyone together and engaged with lots of new classes from drawing to painting, from guitar lessons to our book club.

We managed to get 9 choirs back to room rehearsals late 2021 and hope to do that from February 2022 but for January we will return to zoom rehearsals to keep members safe and choirs running. 

Join now and don't be put off with online rehearsing, it's been a godsend.  You will have the 2 Directors and manager singing harmonies while you take part and learn.  Zoom does work when we returned to rehearsals in Aug 2021 members did know their parts.

What is our ethos?

Prior to COVID19 we used to have 18 choirs and over 1000 members.  Once we have spoken to all our venues we will know which choir can open up again and when.  

There is no audition process unless you are interested in the Sing in the City Aw Blacks.  

” We aim to provide a safe, warm, welcoming and inclusive rehearsal space  for members to sing at a level they choose”

outdoor rehearsal 3We appreciate that different members join a choir for various reasons, health reasons, to make friends, to have a hobby, to sing, to perform.  It dosn't matter why you join because we pride ourselves on providing something for everyone.  We put a lot of focus on community, social and charity and you have nothing to lose by taking a FREE trial night or morning with us.  We truly aim to be much 'more than a choir'

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Events

Sing in the City 10th Birthday at the Usher Hall

Sunday
19th
June 		20.00
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22.00
Lothian Road
EH1 2EA
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What's Happening

Audition for our Sing in the City Aw Blacks

The Aw Blacks (their name comes from the fact they wear the black T Shirts and a Scottish mickey take of the All Blacks Rugby team) This is the only auditioned group at Sing in the City. They still take…  Read more

COMMUNITY GROUP GUITAR CLASS

Have you ever wanted to learn how to play the guitar? During the pandemic Kirsty Baird tried various things to keep her members engaged and one of them was a group guitar class. She taught them online and watched as…  Read more

UKCISA singing workshop

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Outside singing rehearsals started

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Sing in the City and Chief Radio Daunder for Cancer Research UK

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Sing in the City founder Kirsty recalls time her mum talked down a gunman at one of her gigs

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Kirsty Baird awarded the British Empire Medal

2020 has been a year that nobody is going to forget in a hurry but what better way to end it than being awarded with a BEM? So yes it's true, when Kirsty first receive and email saying that she…  Read more

Sign the Chief Radio station petition to save the Scottish Chart

In July 2020 our Director Kirsty Baird started her own radio station. www.chiefradio.com One of the reasons Kirsty Baird set up Chief Radio was because she wanted a platform to feature and focus on the Scottish Chart. It seemed nobody…  Read more

Sing in the City – Virtual Haloween

If we had been at actual choir rehearsals this week as opposed to our Zoom rehearsals. This would be a fundraising week for us. We would get members to dress up, make cakes, other members would buy them and a…  Read more

Join a Zoom choir now?

What is a zoom choir? That is a really good question and basically it is the only tip of choir or singing that is allowed just now. So you are in the safety of your own home. You are muted…  Read more

Quarantine did not stop us singing or giving

We will be sending a cheque for £5900 to SAMH in the next couple of weeks. This money was raised during COVID19 quarantine when Sing in the City members, friend and family not only put the Hanley and the Baird…  Read more

I’m coming out – of Lock Down

Kirsty's COVID19 experience in a podcast I have never tried doing a podcast before, I didn't really know what a podcast was but with a new Radio Station launching on the 27th July I decided to play with the software…  Read more