“Rock Choir has become the biggest National Cultural Movement of the decade”
– Sunday Times Magazine.
Award-winning singer and musician, Caroline Redman Lusher, is the Creator and Creative Director of Rock Choir and remains responsible for Rock Choir. She developed a musical, educational and social formula that was the first of its kind, inspiring individuals and communities to join together and sing unique arrangements of contemporary songs without the need for audition or read music. She is considered responsible for the contemporary choir movement in the UK.
Whilst others have tried to replicate its success, the reputation of Caroline and her team has remained at the forefront of the contemporary choir experience and she continues to attract tens of thousands of individuals across the UK who join Rock Choir to enjoy its unique, exciting, social and life-changing experience.
Rock Choir is now a household name and much-loved brand, firmly ensconced in hundreds of communities, supporting local and national charities whilst dramatically improving the health and well-being of thousands.
Rock Choir began in Farnham, Surrey, in 2005 and was quickly described as a phenomenon by the national media, due to its originality and popularity with the British public.
Rock Choir currently boasts more than 30,000 members rehearsing in hundreds of towns up and down the country. It has several entries in the Guinness Book of World Records as well as a huge profile in the media with countless appearances on high-profile TV and radio shows.
The team behind Rock Choir is made up of a dedicated group of over 100 talented musicians who are the Rock Choir Leaders and a committed team of over 30 based at Rock Choir HQ in Farnham who underpin the organisation.
Caroline and her team choose emotional, inspiring and feel-good songs to impact the well-being of the members. Current chart acts and songs from artists such as Earth Wind and Fire, Elton John, Keane, Annie Lennox, Adele, Sam Ryder, ELO, Phil Collins, George Ezra, Queen, Robbie Williams, Michael Bublé, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Sia, Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars contribute to the Rock Choir repertoire as well as requests and suggestions made by the members themselves.
Caroline built Rock Choir on an uplifting ethos of family, fun, friendship and community spirit with members enjoying a dynamic and busy new social life as well as a huge improvement in personal confidence. For many of the thousands taking part, Rock Choir has become a lifeline!
Rock Choir continues to offer members once in a lifetime and unique experiences such as recording at London’s Abbey Road Studios, taking part in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and BBC Proms in the Park, performing at the nations’ arenas such as the London o2, Wembley, Liverpool and the NEC, going on tour to support artists such as Russell Watson, performing at the gala evenings of new West End shows, contributing to high-profile albums, performing on national television and singing at red carpet film premiers such as ‘Judy’, performing at major sporting events and staging Flash Mobs at various events and venues locally and nationally.
Members have also had the opportunity to record their voices on professional records released by Rock Choir and enjoyed the success hearing their voices being played on national radio such as BBC Radio 2 whilst celebrating top 10 iTunes chart positions!
As well as releasing two new singles, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ and Stevie Wonder’s ‘Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing’ in line with both the 2018 and 2019 BBC Proms in the Park performances, the Rock Choir Team regularly release charity singles to help raise awareness for National charities such as Mental Health Foundation and Cash for Kids.
Its first ever Christmas single, ‘The First Noel/Silent Night’, released in December 2018, rushed up the charts to the iTunes Christmas No.1 position. Following this success was another Christmas single in 2019, Happy Xmas (War is Over) again featuring The Rock Choir Vocal Group consisting of the 100 Rock Choir Leaders who deliver the Rock Choir repertoire to the membership in their own communities across the UK.
The Christmas 2020 single was released during lockdown and featured 4550 Rock Choir members who took part in a mass of individual online recordings to create the inspirational and emotional Christmas Single, ‘Keeping The Dream Alive’. This also topped the iTunes Christmas chart and gave the Members an exciting and successful result to be proud of. Roy wood gave Rock Choir his blessing in 2023 and his icon song, I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day, was released and in 2024, two Christmas charity singles were released on the same day, both for Cash for Kids; Hallelujah (Solo Edit) and What Christmas Means to Me (Magic Mix)
Rock Choir performs at approximately 2000 events each year from local community and charity fund-raisers to high-profile, glamorous national events.
The Rock Choir Team along with the members help to raise approximately 1 million pounds a year for local and national charities through these events. Supporting individuals, communities and charities is part of the important enrichment that Rock Choir offers to the UK.
