We’re already some way into the week-long Sing London festival, which started on the 29th of June. Fortunately, the definition of “a week” is fluid when it comes to festivals, and so there’s still more to come, with events designed to get the city singing continuing until the 8th of July.
(Picture by *yuki*.)
On Friday the 6th, for example, it’s late night opening at Tate Britain (as usual for the first Friday of the month), and there’s a singing theme: choirs, Routemaster buses driving singing attendees along the banks of the Thames, with a song on the lawn and “karaoke and a barbeque” to finish.
On Saturday the 7th, during the day, there’s singing in the National Gallery, as choirs (including the Police Choir) present songs that they’ve chosen in response to specific paintings in the gallery.
Finally, on the afternoon of Sunday the 8th, it’s the Grand Finale at the Southbank Centre, a “mass city sing” between three and five o’clock in the afternoon. Thousands of participants should turn up, to send the festival off with a rousing chorus.
There’s a lot of events associated with the festival, some aimed at the skilled singer, some at those who think they can’t sing at all; some for the intellectually curious, some for those who just want an excuse to sing really loud in public. The Sing London search form is particularly handy, letting you search by date, borough and even musical genre: Baroque, Gospel, Music Hall and a couple of dozen others, and revealing that a couple of events even lead out of singing into dancing; for example, you can learn to twist at Sadler’s Wells.
Sing London: All around London, until Sunday 8 July. Various prices, but mostly free.
