What I’ve learnt from 20 years of creating scratch choirs

🫧 Open on Bubbles Twenty years ago, Warwick Folk Festival asked me to create a community choir as part of its education outreach programme. Singing Safari, Warwick 2007 I was reluctant to use the word “choir” because I thought it might put some people off. So I used a thesaurus and came up with “Singing Safari”. This is the story of that project. The idea was simple: create a choir from scratch and have it perform six weeks later at the Warwick Folk Festival . We met for six weekly two-hour rehearsals and l