Choir Invisible – Something to sing about!

On Saturday 7th November Choir Invisible takes to the stage in the glorious setting of St Mary’s Church, Melton in a very special concert to raise funds for Archbishop Tutu’s work for peace.
Is there something in the water? Are all the world’s best singers living in the East Midlands? Our region is home to some of the best choirs in the world! As well as our very own, Harlaxton-based, soul-gospel choir ‘Choir Invisible’, there is Mansfield’s ‘Cantamus’ girl’s choir, and, in Nottingham, two of Europe’s premier barbershop choruses, ‘Grand Central Chorus’ and ‘The Lace City Singers’. This region really does seem to have a lot to shout/sing about!
Choir Invisible, having performed at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, as finalists in the BBC Choir of the Year Competition, following TV appearances on BBC1 and Channel 4, after two concerts at London’s Royal Festival Hall, and after singing to a delighted Archbishop Desmond Tutu* last year, are finally to be heard on home ground! Singers and audiences find the choir’s unique soul-gospel repertoire addictive! Choir Invisible has no less than 92 singers aged 15 to 70, many of whom travel from Melton to weekly rehearsals at Harlaxton Manor, joining other men and women from as far away as Peterborough, Leicester, Retford, Mansfield and Nottingham to sing the rich, unaccompanied harmonies of their music. Expect the heart songs of South Africa, the low-down, dirty blues of the Deep South and the inspiration of classic gospel – alongside subversive acapella funk and sweet soul music.
Director Sally Brown comments, “We’re not just any choir,  we’re home-grown, natural-born singers!  And we have some really wonderful news to announce later in the year, a very great honour for us and for the region, which will be anounced at our Southwell Minster concert on 4th December.”
* Check out the moment Choir Invisible met Archbishop Desmond Tutu on YouTube! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbB0dk-yS8