You're not sure you have the confidence or the skills to join a traditional choir
You like folk music from different traditions.
Why not consider joining a community song group?
Groups specialising in 'Singing for Fun' have been popping up all over Scotland since the early 1990s. Offering a warm welcome to new singers, whatever their level of confidence, and offering a range of ways of learning songs without needing to read music, these groups are an essential part of the contemporary Scottish musical scene. Normally singing songs in Scots and English, such groups enjoy songs not just from Scotland but from across the world.
If you are particularly interested in Gaelic song, find out more about classes and activities organised by Feisean nan Gaidheal. If you live near the English border, and would like to find similar community song groups in Northumbria, Tyneside, Teeside and County Durham, contact 20,000 Voices.
Community Song Groups first developed as we now know them in
Scotland in the 1990s. Bringing people together who share a joy of singing,
and who wish to combine this with a love of traditional song, seems a simple
concept. Today, it seems surprising that it took so long to come about...
We are gradually getting together a comprehensive listing of what groups meet and where, that will make it easy to locate a group near you, and will encourage shared pleasure between groups in the joy of singing. Thank you for visiting, and come back often.
