This summer, we are returning to Cadogan Hall for a sizzling evening of choral music to mark 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Our repertoire will be drawn from LGBT composers and performers as well as music that has been meaningful to these communities.
Entitled ‘From Queer to Eternity’ – Songs of Struggle and Celebration, the evening will cover music from a rich variety of styles and genres including artists such as Leonard Bernstein, Dusty Springfield, Queen, Erasure, Joan Armatrading, Mika, Radiohead, George Michael, Lady Gaga and Christine and the Queens. Classical numbers will include a rousing chorus by Handel and a moving spiritual by Michael Tippett.
Special guests
We are delighted to be sharing the stage with two special guest choirs: Out Aloud from Sheffield, and – to highlight the work being done around the world on legalising homosexuality, as part of a year-long exchange project – we will also be joined by Rainbow Voices Mumbai, India’s first LGBT choir.
Prepare to come on a musical journey with the Pink Singers: from hidden to visible… from shame to pride… from Queer to Eternity.
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Free World AIDS Day Concert this Thursday
This Thursday, 1 December, we’ll be performing a concert at St John on Bethnal Green to mark World AIDS day. We’ll be joined by George Green’s School Choir and Trudy Howson, LGBT Poet Laureate.
Doors Open 6.45pm for a 7pm start, and admission is FREE!
This concert is funded by Tower Hamlets Council in conjunction with ELOP and Positive East. We’ll be singing a sneak preview of songs you can hear in our January concert, SING!
Click here for the Facebook event details.
We're looking for new sopranos and altos!
Calling all sopranos and altos!
Do you love to sing? Would you like to be part of the Europe’s longest-running LGBT choir? Then consider joining the Pink Singers!
The audition list is now open for our new season starting in September. Fill in the form to sign up for an audition or email joining@pinksingers.co.uk to find out more.
Unfortunately auditions for tenors and basses are closed for the winter season, but check back later this year to apply to audition for next season, which begins in February 2017.
Rainbow Singers Across Borders
On 11 October 2015, the Rainbow Singers Across Borders, a choir made up of LGBT asylum seekers based in Croydon, visited the Pink Singers at our rehearsal for National Hate Crime Awareness Week.
We exchanged songs, then sang and danced together, learning about the challenges they face but realizing that we have so much in common.
Two choirs, one message: stop hate crime.
For more information on Rainbow Singers Across Borders please visit:
http://www.rainbowsacrossborders.org.uk
Timeline datestamp: 11 October 2015
Pink Nuptials!
September saw us celebrate not one, but TWO Pinkie weddings! Congratulations and lots and lots of love to tenors Hsien & Simon, and alto Jess and soprano Rachel and thank you for allowing us to share your respective special days!
