Channel your love for, or discontent with, this world through powerful communal singing that feeds the fire in your belly.
This term has finished. Please find upcoming Fire Choir terms and events here.
Fire Choir is an open-to-all community choir dedicated to communal singing with political empowerment.
Fire Choir, run by The Nest Collective, was founded by folk musician Sam Lee and choir leaders Blythe Pepino, Alex Etchart, and Ben See out of a year-long fellowship at the Foundling Museum. The choir is a vehicle to take rabble-rousing, soul-lifting chants and hollers to the streets, the auditoria, the recording studio and beyond.
Singers will be tapping into the enormous and ancient international repertoire of songs rooted in social change and emancipation highlighting social and environmental injustice around the world.
Material includes folk songs, modern songs, anti-war songs, songs of resistance and struggle, the natural world, songs of love and lost worlds. A portion of the Fire Choir repertoire has been specially-commissioned by The Nest Collective creating new songs sung from the perspective of contemporary communities struggling for a louder voice in society. Writers include some of the UK’s best songwriters and composers Dizraeli, Martha Tilston, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and others.
Membership fee is for a term of 11 sessions of 2 hours each, each Monday from 7pm – 9pm at Kings Cross Baptist Church.
Term starts Monday September 20th 2021, and the last session is Monday 6th December. (Half-term: October 25th)
We are delighted to say that Virtual Fire Choir is back for this term!
We’ll be running these as ‘hybrid’ sessions, so if you can’t make it in person, or would simply just rather join us online, you can do so. Our sessions will run from 7pm-9pm (UK time) and we will send round the zoom link each week. You’ll be tuning in to a live link from our in-person rehearsals, and because we have multiple leaders someone will always be on-hand to make sure our online community are as much a priority as the in-person choir. You’ll get to sing along with the sound of the full choir, and get some focused teaching time too.
The weekly access email will be sent at 6pm each Monday before the session.
Sign up for the weekly Virtual Fire Choir email here
These online sessions are offered on a donation basis. Make your donations using the ticket window above.
Want to try out the in-person choir first? You’re welcome to join one session for free as a trial before committing to the full term. If you enjoy yourself and would like to come back (which we hope you do!) you’ll need to sign up for the term using the ticket window above.
Just fill in this form to confirm your in-person trial date.
London & Online
The Kings Cross Baptist Church, Vernon Square, London, WC1X 9EP
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