Virtual Quires

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With Cheerful Voice

A virtual choir and band. It began during the first covid lockdown, using the name “Lockdown Gallery Quire”, and as covid recedes has changed to its new name. It is a non-audition choir open to any singer and any acoustic instrument, and a new piece is performed each month. Guide track videos are sent out, and every participant records themselves singing or playing to a common guide track. These are then combined to produce a single rendition. We have completed well over 30 pieces, of which more than half are West Gallery, and the rest are classic hymns, usually from the later Victorian period. One of the aims of the choir is to introduce West Gallery music to wider circles, and so far well over a thousand recordings have been submitted from more than one hundred individuals, a good half of whom are not from West Gallery quires.

Previous pieces can be heard here

Contact: Phil Price email