ABC Radio Brisbane’s ‘Pub Choir’

It’s coming up to a year since the Pub Choir phenomena started in Brisbane, so to celebrate the first anniversary ABC Radio Brisbane’s Craig Zonca and Rebecca Levingston are looking for a choir to join them for an on-air ABC sing-a-long on Thursday 1 March.
The first session of Pub Choir drew 80 choristers, who with beer in hand, lyric sheet in the other, sang together for the first time. 

By the third session, punters were turned away, and a bigger venue was found in Brisbane’s West End. 

For the upcoming session, Pub Choristers won’t know which song they’ll be singing until they get to the ABC studios on Thursday morning.

But Astrid Jorgensen,  singing teacher and composer who started Pub Choir, will be at the helm, and she believes she can teach anyone to sing.

“If you can talk, and you can hear, you can sing.”

The learning and rehearsing will take place onsite from 8:45am – 9:45am with the on-air performance scheduled for around 9:50am.

Those wanting to join the chorus should listen into Breakfast with Craig Zonca and Rebecca Levingston, or be ready to nominate your school, business, community group choir to serenade Brisbane.

​”I don’t want people to worry about how good they are … this is just for total joy and enjoyment of a moment shared with other people, it’s really special,” Astrid says.

For more about the Pub Choir head here.

Join the Breakfast ‘Pub Choir’
8:45am – 10am Thursday 1 March
ABC Radio Brisbane 
114 Grey Street, South Brisbane

Watch last year’s Pub Choir belting out Ben Lee’s ‘Catch my Disease’ below. 
 

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