More festival success for award-winning Lindley Junior School Choir

Jul 13 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

more festival success for award-winning choir

AN award-winning choir is celebrating its success in another music festival.

The young members of Lindley Junior School Choir wowed judges when they took to the stage at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall for this year’s Music for Youth Festival.

The choir of eight to 11-year-olds was just one of three junior school choirs to win prizes at the event.

And the choir’s musical director says their success is even more impressive as the last year has marked the choir’s biggest ever intake of new members.

Alison North said: “I’m extremely proud of all of them.

“We’ve had the biggest changeover of children ever so it’s quite an achievement for them to have done so well in a relatively short period of time.”

This year’s festival saw 23 junior choirs taking part from all over the UK, from places as far afield as Devon, Kent and Hampshire.

It was the choir’s eighth appearance at the prestigious event, although this year was its youngest group ever to perform on the stage.

The youngsters performed a variety of songs to the packed audience, including a crowd-pleasing version of The Lion King’s Hakuna Matata and challenging harmony piece Rhythm of Life.

The choir won an award for ‘excellent singing sustained throughout a challenging programme’.

Mrs North said: “They must have been quite nervous taking to that stage for the first time but they were unbelievably confident and self-composed.

“All of the comments from the judges were positive. They said the choir performed with panache and energy and were very accomplished in their singing.

“One comment was that they should share their music and travel to other groups, which was lovely.