Oldham Tuneless Choir invites you to join in and sing badly in 2024!

Oldham Tuneless Choir are inviting people to make it their New Year’s resolution to sing, even if they sound like a frog with a sore throat!

The choir welcomes those who love to sing but maybe lack the ability, confidence, or practice to sing in tune and are one of many Tuneless Choirs across the country which formed to promote singing for fun and wellbeing.

Singing in a choir has been shown to have a positive effect on people’s mental health as it releases endorphins, the ‘happy hormone.’

Gemma Cunliffe, Choir Manager, said: “It was my personal experience of singing, helping me through grief and depression, that led to me starting a tuneless choir in Oldham.

"It’s just incredible how doing something so simple can increase someone’s quality of life.”

The choir provides a friendly and relaxed atmosphere allowing people to ‘sing like no one is listening’, which is the Tuneless motto.

To celebrate the start of the New Year the choir are offering newcomers a free trial in the month of January.

This is the perfect opportunity to go along and see what the choir is all about without any pressure to
participate.

Choir Leader Jess Leavy begins sessions with fun warm ups then leads everyone through a playlist of Tuneless Classics such as ‘Amarillo’, ‘Jolene’ and ‘I will survive’.

Jess said: “Tuneless Choirs differ from more traditional choirs in that people aren’t divided into parts, so everyone sings the lead vocals at whatever pitch they can manage.”

The choir sing well known songs from across the decades as well as having themed sessions.

Upcoming themes are Songs from the musicals and Abba nights.

The choir meets every other Wednesday at Billingtons on Ascroft Street in Oldham, with doors opening at 7pm and singing from 7.15pm to 8.45pm.

The free trial is available on either session in January 2024 (January 17 or 31).

Further information is available by contacting Gemma on 07719 046374 or by e-mail at: oldham@tunelesschoir.com 

To join the choir as a member it costs £10 including registration.

It’s then £8 a session if you ‘pay as you go’ or there are termly discounted deals available.

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