The Southbank Centre's Winter Festival takes place from 1st - 23rd December and Voicelab is inviting your choir to come and sing. Posted: Fri 26th September 2014 | Read More
A research team at York University is asking for help in unravelling the mysteries of how choral singing affects the vocal health of singers. Posted: Tue 09th September 2014 | Read More
The second City of Derry International Choral Festival takes place this October and organisers are now welcoming applications to participate in a practical conducting workshop as part of the festival’s choral symposium activities. Posted: Tue 09th September 2014 | Read More
We're delighted that our app WellRehearsed, developed as a joint initiative between abcd and Making Music, is now available to download from both the Google and Apple stores. The app will allow us to compile weekly, anonymous statistics on safe group music-making.
abcd has worked alongside colleagues at Making Music, Singing Network UK, ABO and ISM to write to Professor Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, and Dr Jenny Harries OBE at Public Health England regarding the guidance for amateur choirs in England at Step 3.
Our new campaign page is up and running! We've been working with our partner organisations to shape a response to the recent and unexpected guidance for choirs in England which single out amateur singing.
Updated performing arts guidance has now been published. Guidance for non-professionals is at section 2.4. Sadly this only seems to allow for a single group of up to 6 singers indoors. We'll post again after consulting and reading in more detail.
We're sorry we have no further updates on performing arts guidance for England from 17 May. Updated guidance has now been published for worship and for community facilities and like everyone, we are very concerned to see the wording.
