Classical Brit Award Winners Blake are searching for local choirs to sing with them… Choirs who would like the chance to join Blake on stage should send a YouTube video link of themselves performing to info@BlakeOfficial.com accompanied by a short description of their group.
BLAKE LOVE their CHOIRS ❤🎼
Our Juniors have wowed The Core Theatre tonight performing with Pop-Opera sensations Blake. Anya is very very proud of each and everyone of her singers!
Excited to be joining BLAKE on stage @RadlettCentre on 17 September! Songs from Barry, Bernstein & Bizet, as well as a toe-tapping number from us. Tickets here: radlettcentre.co.uk/What-s-On/Musi
Some of our Senior students rehearsing with @TheBandBlake before the amazing show tonight at @LboroTownHall
– super proud, you SMASHED it guys!!
❦Blake Passion 👏👏👏
https://blakepassion.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/blake-tour-guernseybeau-sejour/
This is going to be a great show – tickets are still available – featuring our very own GATE choir !! https://www.facebook.com/GATE-531635013572855/ and https://www.instagram.com/g.a.t.e_gsy/
Tonight our students perform with the magnificent BLAKE at Telford Oakengates Theatre. Performing songs from their favourite movies and musicals behind their recently released no 1 album. What a great opportunity to stretch and experience performance at a high level. March 14, 2019
Rehearsal under way.
A very rare moment of quiet in the backstage area last night… #Blake#Wolverhampton #performing
@StephenBowman @thebandblake lovely to meet you all tonight. Our students loved singing with you ! Thank you so much for the photo op after the show !
The choir with BLAKE after tonight’s performance… well done to every one of you.
With some of our fab team @PQAWolves behind the scenes @TheBandBlake this evening. Took an amazing choir of 40 students to perform with them. Just an amazing performance opportunity and a great team too.
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Some of our wonderful students who were asked to be the Guest Choir for ‘Blake’ at The Trinity Arts Centre last night – we are all very proud of you!
Choir rehearsals in progress. Only 3 weeks and we will be performing with the fabulous @thebandblake
With over 10 years singing today Brit Award Winning Blake are as fresh as ever!
This brand-new tour features the finest songs from all seven chart-topping albums featuring musicals, theatre, cinema and of course classical-crossover.
With a show that allows the group to share a bit about their lives as well as their musical talent you will enjoy music from Morricone, Zimmer, Bernstein as well as incredible takes on more modern classics, you will come away feeling full of joy.
This is the ultimate celebration of music all sung in thrilling vocal harmony.
PQA Wolverhampton join Blake on March 14th at Oakengates Theatre in Telford
http://theplacetelford.com/whats-on/music/blake/2960#
This is the very gaw-gus Martin Higgins arrangement of “When You Believe” that we’re singing shortly at our Blake Christmas concert in Solihull !Rehearsing with Blake November 28, 2018
Blake with the #WarminsterMilitaryWivesChoir #FromeMemorialTheatre on September 29, 2018
washing stuff after a week in Scotland. home thurs eve but busy fri as daughter in school choir was singing with @TheBandBlake
Proud moment at New Theatre Royal in Lincoln August 24, 2018 Vale Academy Choir
@TheBandBlake we really enjoyed your concert on Friday- thank you for your continued support of our amazing choir. They loved singing with you again. Awesome. 
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Blake spent 2 fabulous nights in Guernsey at the #BeauSejour
Guernsey Music Centre Youth Choir
A NEWPORT choir got the chance to perform with an award-winning band….
Allegra Ladies Choir perform with award-winning band Blake
Allegra Ladies Choir performed with Blake – who had a successful Christmas single release with Dame Shirley Bassey, The Christmas song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) – in Solihull, in the West Midlands, on Friday last week.
The choir’s social media manager Angela Hiscocks said they had a “really good” evening.
She added: “We joined the band for four songs and we also had the chance to sing a song from our repertoire – Joyful, joyful from Sister Act.”
Ms Hiscocks, from the St Julian’s area of the city, said the choir first sang with Blake back in 2015.
The choir member said the performance benefited the choir as they had to rehearse and learn quickly.
“It is also good to be exposed to large audiences – on Friday, we performed in front of a full theatre, in front of around 200 people,” she added.
Allegra Ladies Choir performed with John Owen-Jones last June and, also last year, they sang before a Women’s Six Nations game.
The choir, which was set up six years ago, has around 50 members of varying ages from 18 through to 80. They rehearse at Llanwern High School on Wednesday from 7.15pm.
Information for anyone wanting to join the choir or book them to perform can be found on the website allegraladieschoir.co.uk
thebandblake Rehearsing our superb choir for tonight’s show at The Radlett Centre. Is this going to be a huge show? You betcha! These ladies are one of the best choirs we know #jubilate#choir#ladies#blake#concert#show#songsofstageandscreen#tenyearstogether#singing#harmony#fun
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Blake: Songs of Stage & Screen.
Q: How can you alter your immunity? A:Sing in a choir! We’re not arguing with science…! @MailOnline
Why join The Choir Factor?????
How about the personal touch? We know absolutely EVERYBODY’s full name…..does YOUR choir leader?????
We know EVERYBODY’S capabilities and sound ….does YOUR choir leader??????
We give EVERYBODY a chance to shine…does YOUR choir leader?????
We ask members to sing solo if able….does YOUR choir leader???????
Our choir leader ensures they introduce themselves to new members…..does YOUR choir leader ??????
Come and join US….. You’ll have ‘yeses’ to ALL these
Please like and share to all these questions….. You’ll go further with us….. Does YOUR choir leader say that?????
If you have answered even one ‘NO’ to any of these questions ….you’re in the wrong choir!
Come and join US….. You’ll have ‘yeses’ to ALL these questions and more without fail….
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Performing Gladiator at the Atrix with our superb choir, great show all round! Big thanks to all the team at this superb theatre, for filling the auditorium & making it such a pleasure to put on our tour here. Can’t wait to be back! #gladiator#inparadisum#song#blake#tour#movie#soundtrack#show#live
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Artrix SongStars Showchoir
ARTRIX show choir Songstars will be performing alongside winning harmony trio Blake on Saturday.The Blake boys will be bringing ‘Songs of Stage & Screen’ to Bromsgrove on May 20, and will be joined by amateur singers Songstars for one special performance.The choir, which meets once a week at the Slideslow Drive theatre, were founded in 2012, and have gone on to perform at concerts and events across the district.Led by Estelle Williams, Songstars is made up of three groups: Little SongStars, for children aged five to nine; Junior SongStars, for 10 to 16-year-olds, and Adult SongStars for 16+.The junior and adult groups will be accompanying BLAKE on stage, singing Nessun Dorma, The Gladiator theme, Vide Cor Meum and You’ll Never Walk Alone.Choir leader Estelle said: “I was absolutely delighted when I heard from the managers of Blake that our choir had been chosen for such a wonderful opportunity.”Our SongStars members have worked really hard on these classical songs and are looking forward to singing at this professional concert.”Fingers crossed they won’t get too star struck by the outstanding singing talents of Blake.”
May 20th at #ArtrixArtsCentre
For more information or to buy tickets, visit artrix.co.uk.
Bromsgrove Advertiser
http://www.bromsgroveadvertiser.co.uk/…/15291766.Artrix_ch…/
Artrix Theatre tonight, lots of new songs from our Stage & Screen tour, great choir, fun venue & lots of new banter of course! Hope to see lots of you there. #Artrix#bromsgrove#theatre#concert#show#tour#blake#harmony#singing#british#choir#fun
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What an amazing evening last night, May 5th, 2017 at The Octagon Theatre in Yeovil with the fabulous Octagon Choir Yeovil 🎼
“The 3 musketeers singing our finale at @octagonyeovil last night! Fab show in a venue we love putting concerts on in. Our local choir were fabulous, Cameron our guest pianist was wonderful and the audience were kind & generous as always in Yeovil. We may be bringing our big Xmas show to Yeovil later this year, in the sister venue to the Octagon, so keep your ears peeled for news of that! #Blake#concert#show#harmony#songsofstageandscreen#singing#classical#pop#musicals#trio ” 
🤞fingers crossed for Christmas at Westland Leisure
BLAKE BUCKET COLLECTION: We can’t wait to welcome Blake tonight, we hope you’ve got your tickets ready, if not there’s still time to get them here: http://bit.ly/2q69KOC
Blake are huge supporters of Help for Heroes Official and so we will be holding a bucket collection at the end of the night.
Atlas UK Security Services Ltd (our fab security team) are also raising money for charities including Help the Heroes, this year taking on the epic challenge of paddle boarding across the channel. Visit their website to donate: http://bit.ly/2pfwjg1
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Blake rehearsing their superb choir ( Choir on the Green)ahead of a show at the #Elgiva Theatre. Lighting, projections & audio all ready, time to let the audience in soon. lots of fun if you love films & musical hits! #Blake#show#concert#tour#touring#projections#lighting#sound#fun April 1, 2017
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Exciting day for us today! Our first ever performance in our home towns! Singing with @TheBandBlake in! Break a leg everyone!! #singing#fun
All sound checked on our first concert ever! Very exciting time!
Blake loved having you on stage with them tonight ♥
Thank you for a brilliant show tonight at @trwakefield, @TheBandBlake and @AFOWakeHud. X 
Strong finish to a great show – @TheBandBlake tonight @trwakefield seen here with members of @Allforonechoirs 
Looking forward to getting back to choir this week after half term! Preparing for our concert with @TheBandBlake in March in #wakefield
The AFO Wakefield Choir will be joining Blake on March 24!
“We are delighted to announce that our first gig has been booked of 2017 for our Wakefield and Huddersfield choirs. The choir will be performing with Blake at Wakefield Theatre Royal on the 24th March. Please note, you do not have to read music to take part in any of our gigs including this one. The parts are very easy to learn and even if this is your first time singing in a choir, we guarantee we will teach you all you need to know. So enjoy the experience of singing with Blake and meeting the award winning classical crossover male harmony group that sell out venues all over the UK. Generally there is an offer code for friends and family audience members this will be announced at your session. A great way to start your AFO experience. Book your taster now and enjoy what the new year has to offer. ”
http://allforonechoir.com/choir-locations/wakefield-choir.html
Fresh from recent appearances on The Graham Norton Show, Strictly Come Dancing and The One Show, Brit Award-winning harmony trio Blake present a brand new tour featuring the finest songs from stage and screen, with projections and lighting that bring the cinematic magic to life.Linked together with the boys’ famous improvised banter, the show features music from Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Leonard Cohen, The Beach Boys and many more.
This is the ultimate celebration of movies and musicals, all sung in thrilling vocal harmony.
http://www.theatreroyalwakefield.co.uk/whatson/show.asp?e=912#.WL1yizvyvIV
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It was a #SELLOUT crowd at Cromer Pier ✨🎉🎶
Let’s take a look back to March 22, 2013 and listen to Blake chat before their show at Cromer Pier
They will be there again Saturday March 4, 2017 
with #TheBroadlandYouthChoir
Joining Blake this Saturday, March 4th at #CromerPier is #TheBroadlandYouthChoir
This #Saturday, March 4th, BLAKE could be making another fabulous 360° #VR with *YOU in the audience!!!
#MoonRiver #Acapella #harmony#TenYearsTogether
https://www.facebook.com/thebandblake/videos/10155124379890466/ 
“Whilst watching move your phone/tablet around to see any angle, or grab the video with your mouse & move it”
Got #your tickets??? https://cromer.ticketsolve.com/#/shows/873563310
Accompanied by local choir #TheBroadlandYouthChoir
Musical director #CaroleTims said it was a great experience for young people, and that new members would have the chance to perform with the choir and the vocal group #Blake at #CromerPier on March 4.
Read more about #choir 🙂 http://www.edp24.co.uk/…/new_voices_invited_to_join_broadla…
Cromer Pier 04 March 2017 Blake: Songs of Stage & Screen.
To book call 01263 512495
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Saturday
February 25th
What a great night singing with the marvellous Blake and MD Martin Riley on Saturday, great audience, lots of wonderful singing, great chat, convivial brekkers and walk to the expanse of Camber the next day……..how much fun is it to be part of the Wall Of Sound? Thank you for the welcome at the Hippodrome. Do come and join us, rehearsals in London and Rye start back next week. If you would like to be part of our very welcoming ensemble please ring Sandra on 07533 207003.
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Sandra Scott to Wall of Sound Singing Ensemble · Eastbourne, United Kingdom · The Wall Of Sound Singing Ensemble are very much looking forward to accompanying the award winning trio Blake on 25th Feb at 8pm at the beautiful Royal Hippodrome Eastbourne. Beautiful singing, sharp suits, fab songs, good looks….what more could you ask for!
Fabulous and friendly #choir that is a favorite of The Band Blake and mine 😊
Stop by and visit @TheChoirFactor ❤️ Life is a song 🎼sing-along
LOCAL CHOIRS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM WITH BLAKE
Fresh from their recent BBC One appearance on ‘David Walliams celebrates Dame Shirley Bassey’, British harmony trio BLAKE are back with a brand-new tour and they are giving 1 Island choir the chance to perform with them at Medina Theatre.BLAKE have an impressive CV of achievements including several number 1s, multi-platinum selling albums and over 150 TV appearances, as well as having won a Brit Award for Album of the Year.The members of Blake all found their love of music at a young age and sang with various groups and choirs throughout their childhood. Their passion for music continues to grow and they wanted to share this with the communities they would be visiting on their tour.#OliverBaines, Tenor said:
“We thought about how we could involve school choirs and local community choirs in our live shows, and that getting some of the choirs up on stage with us would be a great experience for both them and us”.#Choirs who would like the chance to join BLAKE on stage should send a #YouTube video link of themselves performing to info@BlakeOfficial.com, accompanied by a short description of their group. Just 1 choir will be chosen for each concert to join the group on stage.#BLAKE come to the Isle of Wight to perform at Medina Theatre, Newport on 26th May 2017.
Tickets go on sale soon.
Concert Schedule> http://www.blakeofficial.com/live/
By Island Echo
Published on 10th January 2017http://www.islandecho.co.uk/news/local-choirs-given-opportunity-perform-blake
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#FestiveFriday
#Christmas with BLAKE
The fabulous The Choir Factor#choir
will be joining #Blake on stage again 
The Palace Theatre Redditch 
Join Brit award winning vocalists BLAKE for their celebrated Christmas show
featuring festive songs in beautiful trio harmony they are sure to fill you up with Yuletide cheer. For tickets and more info https://goo.gl/lkiUaz
November 24th
#AClassicChristmas #Blake #BackInYourArms
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#Oakfieldchoir will be joining Blake on November 19th at #FromeMemorialTheatre
Yes, we are supporting Blake!
We are proud and delighted that members of Oakfield Choir will be making a guest appearance at this concert to sing with Blake. Saturday 19th November at Frome Memorial Theatre.
#Theatreworks-Cheshire LTD will be with Blake on December 18th at #TheBrindley
We’re here warming up with Blake, who’s coming down?
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Exciting evening with Blake!!!
Taunton Prep School Choir will be joining Blake at the Brewhouse on Sunday, November 13, 2016
THE Taunton Prep School Choir has been busy with performances taking them up the mountains and to the Brewhouse.The choir, which includes 30 students, went around Switzerland for its annual tour. The 10 to 13-year-olds sang their way through Swiss and French venues. Before they left, they sang for their friends and family in the school chapel, and have now been invited to sing alongside band Blake at the Brewhouse. Jayne Hornsby, head of music and performing arts at the Prep School, said everyone enjoyed the events. “This is an incredible experience for the choirs,” she said. “Not only do they get to sing alongside three of the UK’s most talented musicians, but they also experience what it’s like to perform in front of a large audience. “We’re honoured to be given such an opportunity, and wish all our performers the very best.”
#SomersetCountyGazette http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/14840807.Busy_time_for_Taunton_Prep_School_Choir/
Tickets http://www.blakeofficial.com/live/
Online http://www.thebrewhouse.net/event/blake or call 01823 283 244
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Backing Blake on July 21st at The Orchard Theatre will be the Front Room#choir🎼
Blake #SongsofStageandScreen To book call 01322 220000
We (BLAKE⭐️Blake’s Friends⭐️Blake Passion⭐️The Official Stephen Bowman Fan Club⭐️Ollie’s Place ) are #SoHappy and #SoExcited for#FrontRoom😊
#Blakehttp://www.blakeofficial.com/live/
#FrontRoom http://www.frontroomsingers.org/
#OrchardTheatre https://orchardtheatre.co.uk/Online/default.asp…
The fabulous #RuddingtonCommunityChoir will be on stage singing & supporting this #Saturday July 2nd
Best of British Summer Concert in North Lodge Farm, Widmerpool, Nottinghamshire
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Rebecca Newman
#Trent NSPCC
Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT)
Ruddington Community Choir
Blake’s Blog http://wp.me/p728vq-1p
#Blake #RebeccaNewman #Harmony #Singers #Picnic #Fireworks #Music#WordPress #Blog #choir
Alicia Philpott @Missalicia2011) @TheBandBlake what a performance that was! Thanks for letting us wallofsound accompany you! You guys are talented singers!! blake 😀 x
Jane Stevens
Wall of Sound Ensemble choir with Blake at The Royal Hippodrome Theatre, Eastbourne June 18, 2016 ⬆
A Handful of Harmonies ·June 10, 2016
See these ladies? Looking super smart and happy? These are ladies who have been working their socks off to represent our choir with BLAKE at the South Holland Centre.
June 11, 2016
I am supremely proud of every single one of them for finding the time, spirit and dedication to make this performance happen.
Well done ladies and break a leg tomorrow night!!
Blake – I’ll apologise in advance as they are awesome but can be a bit fiesty.. We are super excited to meet you !!!
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Such a wonderful children’s choir 🎼😊❤
Glenda Hill Theatreworks Blake 06/06/16 ❤️
Rock Festival Choir ·June 4, 2016
Great night at Alnwick Playhouse tonight with the amazing BLAKE, lots of lovely music from the stage and screen, much appreciated by a warm Alnwick audience! It was great to sing with BLAKE for a second year running!
Shawbury Military Wives Choir June 3, 2016
What a wonderful evening we had last night performing onstage with BLAKE in Market Drayton. It was a honour to share the stage with such genuinely talented and friendly people.
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Blake Passion shared BLAKE‘s photo.
What could be funner than a long week-end of BLAKE ‘s#StageandScreen#Tour ?
#BlakeonTourhttp://www.blakeofficial.com/live/
Festival Drayton Centre June 3rd with the Shawbury Military Wives Choir
#RockFestivalChoir June 2015 with Blake again at Alnwick Playhouse June 4th
The Buccleuch Centre June 5th
The Brindley Theatre June 6th with Glenda Hill Theatreworks #choir
thebandblake Fantastic show at the Artrix Theatre, awesome audience and a great choir;love touring!
#SoundcheckingAnyone can sing……Just try it ….! You are ALL offered chances to sing with BLAKE and it’s incredible – uplifting, spine tingling, keeps your brain learning new things, chances to sing on professional stages with
world-known professional singers,wonderful singing tips from the expert in sound checks….. National support for ourselves who they don’t go to sleep until we’ve posted in Twitter and fb with photos of us singing……
Make sure YOUR name is down next time and don’t book any holidays around that date or be too afraid to try .If you never do it, you will never know if you can!
We can !
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more photos at https://www.facebook.com/TheChoirFactor/
May 27, 2016
#Blake#boysontour#singing#concert#show#birmingham
The Choir Factor is joining Blake again tonight at The Artrix Theatre!!! May 27, 2016
Making more memories 🎼💖
It’s #Showtime!!!
And here we are, the show Rising Voices Wessex on stage with Blake, what a fantastic experience, well done everyone.
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This is it, rehersal time with Blake at the Regent Centre in Christchurch.
Its show time – Make up and hair for our performance with Blake. A big Thank you to Boots Beauty Therapists and to A’ Courts for making us all look fantastic – our Heros
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In the news…
Singing Our Socks Off#choir with BLAKE at The Atkinson tonight 😊
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Joining BLAKE at Preston Guild Hall on May 3rd will be……………
the fabulous Preston Cecilian Choral Society#choir 😊🎼
#TheCharterTheatre
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They will be joined on stage by local #choir,
Sound Waves Community Choir, Hastings
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Do Your Thing is returning to support BLAKE at The Plaza Stockport😊
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Monday 26th September at 7.30pm
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March 2016
The Landmark Show Choir backing Blake March 5th at The King’s Hall in Herne Bay, UK
A beautiful performance of ‘Up Where We Belong ‘ from BLAKE and Landmark Show Choir from last night’s show at The King’s Hall for all of us😊
Thanks to Robert Ward for magnificent video and fantastic photos!
Click to see more photos! Please don’t share photos without permission. Thanks ☺
Landmark Show Choir https://www.facebook.com/LandmarkShowChoir/?fref=ts Terravoces https://www.facebook.com/tvoces/?fref=ts The King’s Hall https://www.facebook.com/thekingshall/?fref=ts
BLAKE joined by 10,000 singers from 300 choirs since forming in 2007
BRIT-award winning vocal trio BLAKE celebrate seven years of entertaining audiences worldwide this month, along with the announcement that they have been joined by an incredible number of choirs along the way, to whom they attribute their success.
Although trained at leading classical music colleges, the harmony group have always credited their unique sound to all three having sung with school and community choirs since they were children.
Shortly after gaining their first gold disc and a BRIT award in 2008, the singers decided to show their support for choirs in communities around the UK, by inviting them to join their live tour shows. Choirs were chosen via audition videos submitted on YouTube, with successful groups invited to sing both with the boys, but also to open the second act of each show with a solo piece of their choosing.
Since starting this campaign BLAKE have been joined by over 300 local choirs, totalling over 10,000 singers from across the UK, along with many more overseas. The types of UK choirs vary greatly and have included singers from local communities, primary schools, senior schools, state schools, private schools, choral societies, church choirs, gospel choirs, equal opportunity choirs and national choir clubs.
Choirs all continue to keep in contact with BLAKE via social media (Twitter @TheBandBlake Facebook /TheBandBlake ) with hundreds of messages left for the boys each month, thanking them for the opportunity to sing on a professional stage and urging them to keep the campaign going. BLAKE hope that by the time they celebrate 10 years together in 2017, they will have been joined by over 17,000 singers and that within that time many of those will have gone on to solo stardom. Many young singers that BLAKE sang with five years ago, are now themselves studying at classical colleges, showing that this campaign truly does inspire a new generation of vocal performers.
Humphrey Berney from BLAKE, who organised the campaign personally since it started, says “We three all owe our careers, our success and the opportunity to travel the world, to the choirs that first let us sing with them as young children and teenagers. Singing within a group helps build confidence and without a doubt leads on to some people stepping forward to take on solo singing careers”.
Stephen Bowman from BLAKE, who started singing later on in his teenage years with both bands and a school choir adds “I was never sure of whether I had a good enough voice to sing in public, but within the safety of a choir, surrounded by supportive friends, I was able to find my voice and enjoy using it. Community choirs and school choirs are undoubtedly the real-life alternative to waiting and praying for an audition on X-factor, which may or may not lead to anything. Choirs keep it real.”
BLAKE’s respect for the choral community has now spread to other parts of the world, after being joined by local choirs for tours in China, Russia, The Philippines and the Caribbean.
BLAKE have pledged to continue supporting choirs in the UK
For more information on which venues BLAKE will be performing at, or to find out if there may be an opportunity to for your local choir to perform with the band contact them on social media @TheBandBlake on Twitter, or visit their official Facebook site: http://www.Facebook.com/TheBandBlake
Tenor Oliver Baines: “We thought about how we could involve school choirs and local community choirs in our live shows, and that getting some of the choirs up on stage with us would be a great experience for both them and us.”
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