A capella group hit right notes for Loros
COMMUNITY singers from Burbage were among hundreds who took part in a choral competition to raise money for Loros.
Harmonic Voices, a village a cappella group founded in 2014, won an award for “outstanding performance” at a We Sing for Loros event held in the Church of St James the Greater in Leicester.
The group was one of eight competing in the Leicestershire Community Choir Challenge in front of a panel of judges that included TV favourite Ken Burton.
A regular performer on BBC’s Songs of Praise and TV judge who was involved with the BAFTAnominated series The Choir: Sing While You Work, presented by Gareth Malone, Mr Burton marked the end of the event by leading the choirs and audience in a massed rendition of My God is a Good God.
Each choir was allocated time to sing three songs for adjudication, starting with previous competition winners, Leicester’s Amika Choir, who performed alongside Harmonic Voices at a concert in St Catherine’s Church, Burbage, in 2015.
Organisers described the competition, which involved more than 230 singers and was won by Kibworth Ladies’ Choir as “close run, entertaining and at times very moving”.
The event generated more than £10,000 for the Leicestershire and Rutland hospice service, with around £800 of the total being raised by the Burbage-based choir.
Harmonic voices, led by musical director Steve Johnson, meets in the Clarke Community Centre, Herford Way, Burbage on Wednesdays in term-time from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.