Choral

Sharing a feed, being outdoors, and spending time with loved ones: Australians are singing together about the unique experience of Christmas Down Under in the ABC Classic Choir. 

It's tricky and expensive securing the rights to musicals and some will never be available to the community. For those dreaming a dream of Les Mis at the local school, here's what it takes.

Melbourne Indie Voices choir has grown from people rehearsing in a lounge room to 400 members in just a few years, now its ready for its first post-lockdown performance.

Melbourne Indie Voices choir has grown from several people rehearsing in a lounge room to 400 members in just a few years, and the group is ready for its first post-lockdown performance.

When choirs shut down during COVID-19 lockdowns many singers were unable to connect with their friends.

Missy Higgins has been working with students from Wilcannia for weeks to perform a song together at the Mundi Mundi Bash in front of thousands. This was a chance to encourage young women from rural areas to music.

In what has been slated as a "David and Goliath" battle, a small outback community is channelling The Whitlams and their smash hit "Blow Up the Pokies" to oppose a gambling giant's plan to install 60 new poker machines in pubs and hotels across town.

As the long-awaited replacement for White Night and the Melbourne Festival, Rising set out to deliver a monumental program of public and international arts, but the small moments are perhaps its best feature.

Having been delayed by COVID for two years, Melbourne’s newest cultural festival is set to wow audiences with headliners Sampa the Great and Masego and a raft of public art events.

From contemporary tunes to Christmas carols, group singing has many benefits, but how do we keep it all COVID-safe?

Lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne haven't stopped this inspiring choir from continuing to raise money for women's community shelters - by taking things online!

After almost 100 years, Charles S Packer's choral masterpiece has filled the air once more — thanks to a chance meeting between a curious music director and a historian who loves old book shops.

Hobart Airport is treated to an encore performance of a Samoan song after a video of seasonal workers singing from the balconies of a quarantine hotel went viral earlier this week.

A school choir in regional NSW merges creativity, technology, tenacity and a huge amount of patience — along with more than 50 video recordings — to create a full online Christmas choral performance.

For many, singing in a choir is one of life's great joys. But early in the coronavirus outbreak it emerged that singing in a choir could be a high risk activity. Now as restrictions ease we ask the experts whether it's too soon to get back to choir and how practice will have to change.

When 28 bearded blokes from Mullumbimby with a love of vodka and Russian folk songs came together, something strangely wonderful happened. It was just bizarre enough to make them go viral during the pandemic.

These bearded blokes from Mullumbimby, NSW, make up the "Southern Hemisphere's best fake genuine Russian folk choir" Dustyesky. The group is finding new ways to entertain audiences during COVID-19 restrictions by taking their act online.

From his "carport studio" in Melbourne, Adam Hills introduces this unique Australian Story about the novel, positive and hilarious ways performers are responding to COVID-19.

The Broadway version of Mary Poppins is cancelled as the long-range impact of coronavirus puts paid to one of Far North Queensland's favourite theatrical events.

A Brisbane social choir event is going digital to bring positivity to those socially isolated due to the spread of coronavirus.

It was the unlikely ragtag bunch of people that became a musical phenomenon. Choir of Hard Knocks put homelessness in the national spotlight, but 13 years on from the ABC documentary where have their voices led them as a new choir master takes over the mic?

Musician and mother Rose Wilson has created a mum's choir where children are welcome too. It's proving popular, as mums enjoy connecting and singing with others without having to worry about childcare.

There is so much Easter music, but here are the stories behind four important pieces you might hear this weekend — from medieval chants to Handel's Messiah.

The hidden Christmas carol called Parit Virgo filium, discovered in a 15th-century manuscript at Cambridge University Library, will be recreated and performed by the Newcastle Cathedral.

Nia Harrison's mother, aunt and grandmother are all deaf — and there is a chance she will go deaf too. If that happens, "there'll just be another successful, strong, deaf woman in my family" says Nia.