choir

This will include workshops, industry events and performances from local artists and a choir of eight to 12 year olds across seven local authority areas.

The sisters talk glowingly about growing up in the embrace of the church, where their father would teach them piano and their mother encouraged them to sing in the choir.

The Lib Dem leader talked of "male voice choirs and Hogmanay, county shows and school fairs, fish and chips, village greens and cricket pavilions".

He also could sing a little, lending his bass voice to church choirs in Wisconsin and Southern California, and serving as song leader in various prison-ministry services.

A choir at a scandal-hit cathedral sang an "inappropriate" song and walked out of a service in a protest over potential lay-offs.