Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2025
For the whole month of August, Sing in the City will be taking part in the 75th Anniversary show of The Edinburgh Military Tattoo. We have invited all 1000 members, over 26 performances to join us in the experience of a lifetime. Kirsty Baird has always told her members to dream big, and dreams don’t…
First rehearsal at Edinburgh Castle with the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
In July 2025 all the hard work pulling 900 people together to perform at the Tattoo came to fruition. We all stood together at the amazing Edinburgh Castle, on the expertly put up seats. In a few days time we were going to have to time our run up the esplanade steps to get into…
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’…
Over £3000 worth of pet food donated to the Edinburgh Cat and Dog home
When the cat and dog home announced that they were running short of food for their pet food bank, Aw Black and staff members Lesley Day asked if we could help. So we put out a call to action, anyone wanting to donate some cat or dog food please bring something to choir. Members did…
£200 donated to the Scottish Wildlife Trust
Sometimes we just donate money to charity for the sake of it. Who doesn’t like animals and want them to be safe and well? Scottish Wildlife trust is Scotland’s leading nature conservation charity, established in 1964 to protect Scotland’s wildlife and restore ecosystems. It manages over 100 wildlife reserves (covering >17,000 hectares), champions conservation policy,…
Remember When singalong sessions
We started our Music in the Community project in 2023. Our carehome visits with our Remember When singalong sessions were part of that. We provided one a month free of charge and plan to do 2 a month in 2024 all funded by our sister CIC (Community Interest Company) Chief Radio. It’s not a concert,…
Sing in the City singing for Cancer Research
Having busked twice in the summer Sing in the City were in the mood to busk more. So when Cancer Research asked us to get involved in their Shine Night walk of course we said yes. We love a random event and standing in the cold and the dark at the foot of Arthur Seat…
Sing in the City performing at the Mound as part of Edinburgh Fringe
The weather stayed pretty perfect for a busk and just as well as 400+ members of Sing in the City choirs from across Edinburgh, Fife and the Lothians came together to sing their set. Annette Hanley standing high on the mound steps next to some members of the public and Kirsty Baird down at the…
Care Home Singalong
Kirsty Baird our Director has taken choirs to sing in care homes many times however, this new community project see her taking a small group of around 5 members and a guitar and she provides the singalong. This way nobody has to just sit and listen, the focus is on the residents taking part in…
Remember When, Dementia Choir
Our sister company Chief Radio is going to be raising money to start a Dementia / Alzheimers choir and what ever we raise, up to our target Creative Scotland will match. 1 in 3 people born in the UK this year will develop dementia in their lifetime. There are 944,000 people with dementia in the…
Sing in the City Pensioners Party 2022
Our first pensioners party since the pandemic took place 25th November 2022. We had 60 guests from 6 carehomes come to a local church and we provide food and drink and singing and dancing and of course a game of bingo. Volunteers from Sing in the City came to help and took roles that included…
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 and Chief Radio Daunder for Cancer Research UK
This April Cancer Research UK organise their virtual Race for life. Can you help us support them? We encouraged our members to set their own distance and Daunder. While they daundered they could raise money and think and remember people who had lost their cancer challenge and also support those going through it right now.…
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.…
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 Follow the Rainbows single at the No.3 position in the Scottish charts but also put…
