Recent events and news
What has Lauderdale Community Choir been getting up to?
Breath of Life – Singing for Lung Health
On 5 May 2024 we held a collaborative concert to raise awareness of singing for lung health. Together with The Warblers and The Cheyne Gang, both established singing for lung health charities, and Castle Chorus, whose MD is a trained singing for lung health song...
A Woman’s Voice – A Winter Concert, Earlston High School
With the introduction of a spring concert in April, 2019 was the first year that our choir had attempted two major concerts within a 9 month period – so James’s decision to create a programme of pieces composed or arranged by women was an even braver one! At its heart...
10 Head to the Big Apple
In November 2018 a motley group from Lauderdale Community Choir set off for the Big Apple to sing in the Carnegie Hall, no less! We had to raise our game! Our designated ‘leader’, Emma, had undertaken a huge amount of organisation and liaison with DCINY* in order to...
Reflections on our trip to Berlin
A chance ‘find’ on social media had alerted me to the opportunity to be part of a 2000 strong chorus coming together to perform Sir Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man in Berlin. This music was written as a Mass for Peace which embraces many religions and was originally...