Sing in the City Aw Blacks at the Galleries
Here is a chance to see the Sing in the City Aw Blacks with Kirsty Baird and Annette Hanley at the Scottish Galleries. It is totally free to come along.
We have raised over £100,000 for charity and community
We reached that magical number! This has to be one of the things we are most proud of. It is a really big deal and a really big number to reach. The business and the members have donated large amounts of money to our Sing in the City Dreampot and this then gets donated to…
Why men should join a choir
It’s true, most of our members are women but all of our night time choirs have men as members and most of our daytime choirs do as well. Men are very much cherished members and tend to get invited to sing more often at the shows to boost male sections in the choirs with less…
Sing in the City raised over £5k for the Brain Tumour charity
Around 60 members of Sing in the City signed up to walk in the Twilight walk on Sunday 7th October. It was a 10k walk around Edinburgh and the weather was pretty miserable however, they all had a great day walking, chatting, meeting new friends and socialising with old friends. Some members walked and remembered…
£400 donated to Fairway Fife take grand total to over £93k
We collected £369 at our Sing in the City Cloud 9 show on Friday 7th September. We always have a random object in the bucket and this show it was an elastic band. Our Sing in the City Dreampot took the amount up to £400 and this will be getting sent out to Fairway…
Sing in the City celebrate World Cup Week – £650 shared between 13 charities
The amount of money we can raise for charity is amazing. When people come together for community and social reasons, fantastic things happen. We are sending another £650 to 13 charities this week. We got every member to write their chosen charity on a piece of paper and 2 members from each choir were drawn…
Kirsty meets Clare Grogan from Altered Images
Kirsty Baird (MD) and members of Sing in the City had a day out at the Lets Rock 80’s festical on the 23rd June in Dalkeith country park. Clare Grogan was one of the acts. It’s the second time Kirsty has seen Clare perform as she went to the Midge Ure gig at the Edinburgh…
Guest of honour / Motivational Speaker Inverkeithing HS
Kirsty was delighted to be asked to be the guest of honour and motivational speaker at Inverkeithing High School on Thursday 21st June. She was invited through by Emma Clark, the duputy Head teacher. Kirsty gave a 10 minute talk and then handed out the awards to the pupils. ‘I was slightly envious of all…
Donating £600 to Simpsons special care babies
After the Sing in the City Aw Blacks show we collected for Simpsons special care Babies unit in Edinburgh and No Limits sports centre in Livingston. Annette Hanley (MD) and Elaine Dove (manager) were invited up to Simpsons to hand over the cheque for £600. Dr Ben Stenson is the This takes our grand charity…
Our new charity amount is over £90k
One of our latest fundraising was for SAMH. April is our Birthday month, so we all our choirs took part in a school sports day themed week. We had hula hoop competitions, dressed up and had a cake bake week. We raised £1400 for this charity. After this we moved on to getting our 6…
Sing in the City Aw Blacks
This will be the Sing in the City Aw Blacks second visit to the Festival Theatre with the Hanley & the Baird band. The Aw Blacks are Kirsty Baird’s first choir and has 49 members. Some of the members go back as far as 2010 and are the original members that came from Kirsty’s council…
Sing in the City Staff Panto – Chieferella
This is our first Sing in the City staff panto. It is the brain child of Claire Miller who I am guessing is the Director (meaning we are actually going to let her boss us around). It has been written by Claire Miller and Carol Baines and all the actors (for want of a better…
