InChorus puts the ‘hum’ in Northumbria
Posted by Sal Brown
Choir’s festival foray across the Border Last weekend Peebles choir InChorus continued with its mission, to take its own brand of contemporary Scottish Borders music to other audiences, by heading to England. This time the destination was just over the border at the Lindisfarne Festival. These Border Reivers did not go to rustle…
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InChorus InDublin InCredible
Posted by Sal Brown
When a choir member asked InChorus if they would consider travelling to Dublin to sing at her son’s wedding, the choir set about arranging a long weekend of music in the Emerald Isle around the event. Colin Macnab from West Linton was marrying Emma Jacob in her home town of Dun Laoghaire, and…
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Making Music in the Meadows
Posted by Sal Brown
After a three months performance break to allow the choir to learn new songs, update others – and make another video for YouTube, InChorus breezed onto the stage at the Meadows Festival in Edinburgh on Sunday (5th June) and wowed everyone. Among their new pieces was the Pointer Sister’s ‘Jump’ which certainly fired…
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Choirs in Sweet Harmony
Posted by Sal Brown
InChorus, the Eddleston Voices and the RingTones were delighted to be able to present cheques for £500 each to both Nomad Beat and Tweed Wheels as a result of donations collected at their ‘Sweet Singing in the Choirs’ concert last month. Representatives of both charities joined members of all the choirs for the…
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January 2016, Performing YMCA for the Village People
Posted by Sal Brown
Featured in The Peeblesshire News: Local choir InChorus recently performed at a charity concert to raise funds for YMCA Scotland. With ‘YMCA’ being the obvious choice for the finale, Angela Preston, fundraising manager at YMCA Scotland, contacted The Village People to ask for copyright permission – and was delighted that it was granted.…
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Happy Hour with InChorus: a review by Kate Turnbull, August 2015
Posted by Sal Brown
Music at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe can be an enlightening affair with acts swinging very much from the sublime to the ridiculous; but I’m thankful to say that ‘Happy Hour with InChorus’, which I had the pleasure of seeing on Thursday 27th August at a Greenside venue, sat very much in the former…
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InChorus InConcert InEden, June 2015
Posted by Sal Brown
Peebles choir, InChorus took part in the Eden Festival, near Moffat, on Sunday. Performing on the main stage there, the choir showcased for the first time the repertoire it has prepared for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. An extremely appreciative audience listened intently as the choir sang. At the end of the…
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Beat the Winter Blues Concert, January 2015: a Review by Nicky Rhodes
Posted by Sal Brown
On a bitterly cold Saturday evening, in a church besieged by tricky and pesky road works, something bordering on the miraculous happened. The inside of Peebles Old Parish Church was transported to a warm, sunny, and decidedly more light-hearted place. From the moment the multilayer-clad audience was greeted by a chap boasting scanty…
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