Scottish Community Song Groups

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.

What's on this website...

What is a Community Song Group?

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...

What groups currently meet in Scotland?

Search our listings for a group in your council area or near you ...

or if you know the name of the group you want, go straight to its details.

Search for song group, then click on button >>>> Angus Folk, Kirriemuir Bracklinn Singers, Callander Dundee Rep Women's Singing Group, Dundee Eurydice, Glasgow The Feral Choir, Castle Douglas Forres Big Choir, Forres Gaelic Song Group, Nairn Gilmerton Singers, Edinburgh Harmonise, Edinburgh The Jammies, Edinburgh Just Singin', Birnam Kippen Wee Sing, Kippen The Liltin' Lassies, Dunblane Music Classes Project - Scots Song Class, Inverness One Voice, Clovenfords (by Galashiels) Protest In Harmony, Edinburgh Scots Music Group - Linten Adie, Edinburgh North Isles Group, Shetland Sangschule, Linlithgow Sangstream, Edinburgh Scots Music Group - Absolute Beginners, Edinburgh Scots Music Group - Singing for Fun, Edinburgh Scots Music Group - All Together Now, Edinburgh Scots Music Group - Traditional Singing, Edinburgh Scottish Culture and Traditions Association, Aberdeen Singing For Pleasure Group, Inverness Singin' Stirling, Stirling Vocal Moves, Aberdeen VoiceHouse, Edinburgh Voice Howff, Auchtermuchty Wildfire Women's Choir, Edinburgh

New facility! Find your area on the map, and see which areas round about have community song groups.

News headlines!

What's going on in the community song group scene. Read our current and archived news headlines.

What big events for singers are coming up?

Look out for events giving you the opportunity to meet with others who enjoy singing with big groups...

Read about past events.

Some information, pictures and reviews of events where singers have recently met together in Scotland ...

Links to other interesting sites related to Community Song Groups in Scotland.

Other organisations and individuals who have an interest in this developing field...

Tell us about your group or any activities that you are planning.
We can't do this without help from you...

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.

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