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Welcome to the Sing For Your Life! Choir
The Sing For Your Life! Choir is a non-auditioned choir based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Since starting up in 2005 with about a dozen members, we now have more than 100 singers regularly rehearsing and performing (though of course we've been doing things a little differently these days, thanks to the pandemic).
We are an a cappella choir, which means we sing unaccompanied (no instruments; just voices), and we sing a great range of songs from around the world (including a lot of gospel and folk).
Highlights over the years have included performing at many festivals, fundraisers and other events, celebrating our tenth birthday in 2015, and sharing our songs in our first-ever livestreamed performance in 2020. In 2016 more than sixty of us travelled to Ireland to sing in the Cork International Choral Festival, and we had such a great time that another group travelled to Cork in 2019.
We are an a cappella choir, which means we sing unaccompanied (no instruments; just voices), and we sing a great range of songs from around the world (including a lot of gospel and folk).
Highlights over the years have included performing at many festivals, fundraisers and other events, celebrating our tenth birthday in 2015, and sharing our songs in our first-ever livestreamed performance in 2020. In 2016 more than sixty of us travelled to Ireland to sing in the Cork International Choral Festival, and we had such a great time that another group travelled to Cork in 2019.
A bit of history ...
The Sing For Your Life! Choir started in 2005 as a program funded by the Multiple Sclerosis Society, for people living with MS. After six months of about a dozen people singing regularly together, the MS Society program ended but the singers wanted to continue. In March 2006 we became the 'Sing For Your Life!' Choir and opened up our membership to the wider community.
An important concept which we foster in the choir is what we call 'Choir = Community'. We work to build a sense of community within the choir, and we also look beyond our own group with the aim of 'giving back' to the wider community whenever we can.
The Musical Director of the Sing For Your Life! Choir is Jane Christie-Johnston. Jane was involved in running the original MS Society program with Hazel Bucher and Lorraine Mars, and took on the role of coordinating the choir at the end of 2006. Jane also sings with acclaimed local a cappella ensemble 'ThylaSing', and has previously sung with ensembles 'Heart & Soul' and 'About Time' and guitar/vocals duo 'Silk'. In 2019 she launched the 'Ho-Ho-Hobart Christmas Choir', in 2023 the 'Up She Rises' choir had its first performance, and since 2020 she has been collaborating with Queensland-based DJ J-SAN on a dance music recording project. You can also hear her on the soundtrack of the TV series Deadloch (Prime Video), as a member of the Deadloch Women's Choir.
An important concept which we foster in the choir is what we call 'Choir = Community'. We work to build a sense of community within the choir, and we also look beyond our own group with the aim of 'giving back' to the wider community whenever we can.
The Musical Director of the Sing For Your Life! Choir is Jane Christie-Johnston. Jane was involved in running the original MS Society program with Hazel Bucher and Lorraine Mars, and took on the role of coordinating the choir at the end of 2006. Jane also sings with acclaimed local a cappella ensemble 'ThylaSing', and has previously sung with ensembles 'Heart & Soul' and 'About Time' and guitar/vocals duo 'Silk'. In 2019 she launched the 'Ho-Ho-Hobart Christmas Choir', in 2023 the 'Up She Rises' choir had its first performance, and since 2020 she has been collaborating with Queensland-based DJ J-SAN on a dance music recording project. You can also hear her on the soundtrack of the TV series Deadloch (Prime Video), as a member of the Deadloch Women's Choir.