EGMC

Pride Scotia

The EGMC has been invited to do a set at this year’s Pride Scotia event.

Pride Scotia
Edinburgh
(time and venue TBA)

Scottish Real Ale Festival

Following the success of last year’s performance, we’ve been invited back to sing at the Scottish Real Ale Festival on Thursday 25th June at 8.00pm.

Scottish Real Ale Festival
Assembly Rooms
54 George Street
Edinburgh
EH2 2LR

EGMC Summer Concert: Songs in the City (information and booking)

St. George’s West Church
58 Shandwick Place
Edinburgh

Tickets £7.00 full price, £5 Children under 16 & Unwaged
Doors open at 7.00pm

Join the Edinburgh Gay Men’s Chorus for their biggest concert to date. The programme features songs about love, romance and heartache, ranging from the American classic songbook to the swingin’ 60s.

Tickets available on the door and in advance from EGMC members (no booking fee). Or book your tickets through Hub Tickets* in person, by phone on 0131-473 2000 or online by clicking here (opens in new window). A 50p per ticket booking fee applies.

We look forward to seeing you!

*Hub Tickets provides independent ticketing services and is a part of the Edinburgh Festival Centre Ltd. Registered in Scotland No. SC171133. VAT No. 693 9188 73. www.hubtickets.co.uk

Ciaran’s weekly Sing a long a blog

Well folks. Its time for me to blog again this week. Straight to it then. Phantom of the Opera. A fairly ordinary show by anyones standards. Although we use it as a warm up exercise for the choir. So it turns into a camp ditty. Something along the lines of ‘Phantom of the opera, Phantom of the Op-ER-a,
Phantom of the opera, Phantom of the opera, PHANTOM.

Crazy by Patsy Cline comes to mind. Its fine. you tend to normalize it after a few weeks. You see we love a showtune here at EGMC. See how I turned a silly blog into a marketing ploy there. Clever me. So we love a showtune.
And the upcoming summer concert is no exception. Although this time we have some camp popular music type ‘numbers’, as we call them in the business, up our well ironed sleeves.

One that I have been humming all week since rehearsing it just once. Andy Williams and ‘cant take my eyes off you’. Its camembert of the highest quality. Genius. The clip below confirms the brillance. I defy you not to sing a long.
Obviously it gets the harmony treatment, so will be even more jazz hands. So in summary we love a showtune, the show will be camp and we use Phantom of the Opera as a warm up ‘tune’. Hooray. Till next week my musical friends.

Enjoy.

Ciaran. watch?v=VE4ANsMvRsE

Concert Fun!

Well it’s official, our Concert tickets are now on sale. Which is unfortunate for people who have previously not had to pay to hear me sing! Some would pay me to shut up. But that’s for another day.

I’m extremely excited that this is our first large concert; it should be fun. We certainly are having fun rehearsing the programme. Lots of melodic songs for people to sing along to. The soloists should lend a bit of drama, too.

My goal is to keep everyone updated on the progress on the run up to the concert. The ups, the downs, the tantrums, the drama. And thats just warming up at rehearsal. Hmm.

In summary. I’m excited, it’s the big Concert on the 20th of June at St Georges West and you need to get a ticket to see EGMC
sing!

Until next time.

Ciaran. x

Website launch

Welcome to the new EGMC website! Here you can find out more about the chorus, view pictures, and see when we’re performing next.