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Choirs & projects
Chaps Choir
Singing men from London
'Chaps Choir is a large male singing gang; say goodbye to the male voice choir most would recognise.
Bellow Fellows
Male Voice Community Choir
'Bellow Fellows meets regularly in central London. There are no auditions and everything is taught by ear.
Harmony Live
Day workshop open to all
Harmony Live is day long singing workshop open to everyone and run by a small group of experienced singing leaders.
In-reach work
Choirs Beating
Time
I work as a leader for Choirs Beating Time, a charity that brings group singing into prisons.
- PRESSRadio/TV interviews and articles about my work
ITV News
Men singing & Chaps Choir
2016 | 4 min
BBC Radio Suffolk
Getting everyone - especially men - singing + Chaps Choir promo
2018 | 8 min
BBC Radio Humberside
How to get everyone - especially men - singing / Spooky Men
2017 | 10 min
The Independent
'...It's also the best way to meet new people. But what if you hate group activities? Simmy Richman joined the Chaps Choir for two rehearsals, and one potentially life-changing performance'
The Sunday Telegraph
'What happened to the snarling cynical Julia Llewellyn of old? Answer: She joined a choir'
CHAPS CHOIR PRESS
Indscene mention - Wilderness 2016 review
'...Chaps Choir, an all-male 50 piece choir of hotties & 'lumbersexuals' performed chart-bothering crowd-favourites that raised the hairs on the back of everyones necks.'
Drowned In Sound mention - Citadel 2016 review
'Our day starts with the bandstand and Chaps Choir, a horde of...singing men from Islington that produce a winning, lifting sound that drifts bucolically through the trees...their set a brief but sweaty whirl of headdress and rhythm'
CHART - notes to consider - 'When The Men Sing, The Silence Ends' by Alexander Mayor; photos by Matt Veal
'Away from the football pitch or the pub at closing time, men aren’t big singers. Somehow, from school age onwards, singing, that free musical instrument most of us carry around all day, gets knocked out of men. Social pressure, emotional restraint, whatever it is, it stops men from singing in public or joining choirs. In 2013, one singing tutor in North London decided to see if this sad social state of affairs could be overturned and Chaps Choir was born. Writer and musician Alexander Mayor reflects on the surprises of joining a choir, and the strange journey men go on once they decide to sing.'
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POSITIVE NEWS - 'Rewriting The Man Code' by Lucy Purdy
“Singing in a choir is powerful because, unlike in sport, you don’t have to win to succeed,” says the choir’s founder Dominic Stichbury. “To succeed, you have to become part of the group.”
