HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARETHA FRANKLIN! The Queen of Soul would have celebrated her 77th birthday today, March 25th 2019! Her career was expansive and her voice was recorded over multiple decades covering both the gospel and soul genres but also pop, R&B and hip hop! With 112 hit songs in her repertoire Aretha Franklin is the most charted […]
Category archives: Past Events
Queen, Freddie Mercury and Rock Choir!
Queen, Freddie Mercury and Rock Choir! Is it really 27 years since we lost Freddie? I worked it out….it was the year before I went off to University. In fact, I had only lived for 17 years before he was gone forever and yet sometimes it doesn’t feel like he’s been gone at all. He […]
Music is my therapy
Music is my therapy Singing and enjoying music or simply taking part in, or surrounding yourself with music (whether you’d consider yourself a musician or not) will absolutely have a positive impact on your life and on the stress in your life. We will ALL experience stress in varying levels throughout our lives and I […]
BBC’s Proms in the Park – the post-show high!
BBC’s Proms in the Park – the post-show high! On Saturday 8th September 2018 the Rock Choir Vocal Team, over 10,000 Rock Choir Members and I, performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra live on Radio 2 and BBC’s Red Button to an audience of 40,000 at the BBC Proms in the Park concert in Hyde Park, […]
1 FAMILY – 1 CHOIR
1 FAMILY – 1 CHOIR! With only a few weeks until we open the BBC Proms Event in Hyde Park the excitement is most definitely mounting in the team but also in the online activity of the Rockies with comments and conversations as they focus on their travel-planning and logistics! The last time we came […]
Proms in the Park. 1 week to go!
Proms in the Park. 1 week to go! “You won’t be doing your weekly shop this time next week, will you?! Someone will have to do it for you!” said a voice just behind me. I looked around, holding a slightly green bunch of bananas. The Sainsbury’s self-checkout ‘trolley only’ aisle was busy but then […]
