Category: News
AW BLACKS DOUBLE BUSK
The Sing in the City Aw Blacks hadn’t busked in Edinburgh city centre for many years. With busking spaces in short supply, and only one space usually allocated to us, we decided to turn this into a fantastic opportunity for all our members to come together for one big busk. This year, we were lucky…
DOUBLE BUSK DAY DURING EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE
Busking days can be unpredictable, especially when you’re in the capital during Festival time! So, coordinating 600 members of Sing In The City is no mean feat. With our fantastic team behind us, we successfully brought our singers together to perform at the Ross Bandstand Theatre in front of hundreds of people, before packing up…
New Choir Starting in Bannockburn
Bannockburn… we’re coming to sing with you! We are thrilled to announce the launch of a brand new Sing in the City choir in Stirling – Bannockburn, starting this August! Have you always loved singing in the car, in the shower, or at concerts but never had the confidence to join a choir? This is your chance…
Food Festival at the Helix
At very short notice, the Kelpies team invited Hanley and the Baird to perform, followed by Sing in the City. Despite the limited time to prepare, more than 100 singers from across our choirs came together to take to the stage near the iconic Kelpies. With the sun shining overhead, we spent the day doing…
£1500 raised by Sing in the City members during our World Cup Party week
Of course we supported Scotland at the World Cup but more than that, we had a fundraiser and all the money going to our newly rebranded and named CIC sister company Hanley and the Baird Dreampot. We baked cakes, had a cuppa and played football games all week and yes we selected heat wave week…
No Scotland No Party Mash Up
Scotland getting into a World Cup is an amazing achievement not just for the team but for the whole country. We are world renowned for being the fun underdog but this year we are officially part of it. Our Directors, Hanley and the Baird have recorded a mashup of some of the fans favourite songs.…
Kirsty Baird providing a workshop for CAMHS nurses
Kirsty Baird recently delivered a bespoke workshop for nurses working within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) at the Royal Infirmary. Drawing on her extensive experience in music, performance, leadership, and wellbeing, Kirsty led an engaging and interactive session designed to explore the positive impact that music, creativity, and connection can have on mental…
Our new sister CIC company, Hanley and the Baird Dreampot
We have had our Dreampot for as long as Sing in the City has been in existence. After 15 years we decided to make it more official. So now we proudly announce our new Dreampot. We created Hanley and the Baird Dreampot because music and creativity should be for everyone, not just those who can afford it,…
Sunshine on Leith performance for Hibernian Football Club
We were asked to revisit this song by the Proclaimers for an independent Filmer. Sunshine on Leith performed by Sing in the City Aw Blacks and a few invited guests from our other choirs. It was filmed in the stunning Mansfield Traquair centre with amazing acoustics. We consider ourselves to be one of the best…
Our yearly Pensioners Christmas Party
Every year for 15 years we have provided a local pensioners party. We have built up a fantastic relationship with care homes in Edinburgh and their carers book buses and taxis to bring their residents to a Sing in the City hired hall where we give them a cracking good party. We provide, tea and…
Scots band share hilarious song
On Hogmanay Hanley and the Baird were meant to be in the Princes Street Gardens with friends celebrating a new year while listening to Texas, Sharleen Spiteri and Callum Beattie. Obviously the weather put end to that plan. So before they went out to meet friends they took 10 minutes to record ‘A sh*te Hogmanay’…
Hanley and the Baird New single out now. The Motorway Song
The Directors of Sing in the City Annette Hanley and Kirsty Baird were singer songwriters before the were choir leaders. Their first song went into the download charts at No. 27 on fanbase buying only. They a very proud of this song and think it is one of their best songs they have written. Our…
UKCISA singing workshop
I think most people possibly have zoom fatigue by now? However, Sing in the City provide zooms that are like no other. UKCISA asked for a zoom choir workshop to end their conference. Now we had worked with them in 2018 when we provided them with a ‘conference choir’. We worked with them for a…
Outside singing rehearsals started
Our online choirs have been amazing and zoom has helped us to keep people connected and singing from the safety of their own homes but there is nothing like singing with our friends. So at long last we waited till the end of June 2021 and arranged 6 outdoor sessions in Edinburgh, Lothians and Fife…
Sing in the City founder Kirsty recalls time her mum talked down a gunman at one of her gigs
Edinburgh Evening New story Our Director made it to the front page and had a double page spread after she spoke to Liam Rudden at the Evening News after receiving her BEM. She started singing professionally in bars at the tender age of 17 in bars in Leith that were never short of interesting stories.…
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 would be in the New Years Honours list, she thought it was a wind up.…
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 and practising mixing and talking. What would I talk about? The obvious choice was the…
STV interview with Kirsty Baird – Follow the Rainbows
STV interviewed Kirsty Baird on the 26th April about Hanley and the Baird’s top 10 single Follow the Rainbows that had been inspired by the members of Sing in the City and all the proceeds to the song is going to SAMH. The single (with no radio airplay) went right in at number 3 of…
