The Folk Choir

16/09/2024

Check this out - the best Spooky video ever, from their very recent show at Fairport's Cropredy Convention, UK.

17/06/2024

This is the next big adventure....so I made a postcard! Do you feel like singing in France next year?

02/03/2024

This! Is happening in 13 days' time. If you're still in the vicinity after Cobargo Folk Festival, come and join us and sing, eat, walk, laugh and sing!

29/04/2022

Nicole has decided that she is no longer able to continue running Folk Choir and is stepping down as leader. She has been in conversation with a few people to see if there is a way for the choir to continue so we await the outcome.

I'm sure I speak for every choir member, current and past, when I say how much we appreciate the ten years of dedication Nicole has given Folk Choir. We wish her easier times ahead and much happiness in her future endeavours.

05/03/2022

Folk Choristers, I have disabled posting to this page, hopefully temporarily. There appears to have been a mass scam attack on a lot of music community pages so I'm hoping that disabling posts will help protect us.
As always, if you receive a post with a suspicious link, don't click it!(Mal)

17/01/2022

Due to the ongoing uncertainties surrounding singing and Covid Nicole has decided to furlough the choir for this term. All being well we will resume on 28th April.

Until then sing whenever and wherever you can safely. Stay healthy!

14/10/2021

Congratulations to our wonderful leader Nicole Murray. The Folk Alliance Australia's 2021 Australian Folk Music Awards recognised Nic's achievements with two awards last night.

In the category Community/Cultural Project of the Year, Nicole won in recognition of the massive contribution she made during the 2020 lock-down, creating the choir song tracks and warm-up exercises which were shared world-wide.

Cloudstreet and the Little Cloud Orchestra won the category Traditional Folk Music Album of the Year. Cloudstreet is of course Nicole, John Thompson and Emma Nixon, and Rebecca Wright was an orchestra member.

Folk Choir, with a couple of Morningsong members, had a party night while watching the awards ceremony via You Tube projected on a screen. So exciting!

15/07/2021

The Folk Choir starts a new term tonight!

Venue: Red Hill Community Sports Club, Fulcher Road, Red Hill. Doors open/registration from 7pm, start at 7.15pm and finish around 8.45pm

09/07/2021

Folk Choir will resume on 15th July with Nicole Murray resuming her position waving her arms around in front of us.
The full term is $135, or $18 per night casual which should be pre-paid on-line.

Covid rules have to be observed of course.
The new Qld Government rule requires us to all check in using the Check In Qld app.
We will be starting this term while there is still mandated mask-wearing. Please wear a mask into the room and until you are seated.
Nicole's group email contains more details. If you haven't received this and believe that you should be on the email list please let us know. (After checking that it hasn't gone to your junk/spam folder by mistake).
See you there!

18/06/2021

A big thank you to Rebecca Wright for leading us through our term of fun but productive singing. We revised old favourites such as Stand by the Shore, and Chì mi na Mòrbheanna, and continued to consolidate the beautiful song Crossing the Bar, which Erin had taught us in the previous term.
Choir members showed their creative sides too. Ray and Vicki adapted Fred Small's The Hug Song, often performed by Bec and Donald, to represent covid times. "I wanna hug" has sadly become "Ye cannae hug". Graham answered "Sumer is a cumen in" with "Winter is a coming in ....(let's all sing boo hoo)".

Nicole Murray will resume control of the conductor's baton next term, starting on 15th July. See you there!

30/04/2021

Something for the instrumentalists in Folk Choir. If you missed Monique and Lucy's wonderful weekend workshop last month you now have another chance to learn some lively tunes with them.

🎻ANNOUNCEMENT🎻 We are thoroughly delighted to bring you a series of winter workshops! Stay toasty this winter by learning some truly toe-tapping tunes with us. We'll be diving back into some of the favourite topics and traditions from the string camp, with a slow class followed by a fast class each time. You can come to all five sessions or pick and choose the ones you're most interested in. We look forward to seeing you there!

https://treefolkmusic.wordpress.com/upcoming-events/winter-workshops/

05/04/2021

After all the chocolate and a peaceful break, we will be resuming choir for a new term.

I'm very excited to announce that this term's guest conductor is the fabulous Rebecca Wright, well-known cellist and singer from Gone Molly, who also plays in The Ceilidh Clan, has toured with Cloudstreet and plays in a duo with her husband Donald McKay. Get ready for Bec's beautiful repertoire of folk, traditional Scottish, and chorus songs! Pop the term dates in your diary.

Term Two Dates
Thursday 22 April - 24 June. (10 weeks)