Voices Now present a day showcasing some of the UK’s best choirs, in association with the BBC Singers and Making Music, following the success of our first Voices Now Festival in 2011, which saw over 2,000 singers perform at the Roundhouse.
Choirs with styles ranging from world and beat-boxing to classical, and from every corner of London and the UK, will perform throughout the day, following performances in their local areas on Saturday 3 March. All this will culminate in three choirs joining forces for the premiere performance of Orlando Gough’s Making Music Overture, commissioned by Making Music as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3's The Choir.
Voices Now is part of Music Nation, a Countdown Event for the London 2012 festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. The festival is a 12-week UK-wide cultural celebration that brings leading artists from all over the world together to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games through dance, music, theatre, visual art, film and digital innovation.
Performances take place throughout the day on 4 March 2012.