The Boîte Melbourne Millennium Chorus 2018"”join now!

Singing in groups isn't just great fun, more and more evidence is showing that choral singing is good for our minds and bodies as well. If you've always wanted to experience the joy of singing in a group but haven't had the opportunity before, here's your chance to be part of an extraordinary choir.

Enrolments are now open for the 21st Boîte Millennium Chorus"”and the great news is, there's no age limit, and no auditions. It's a welcoming and diverse choir of up to 300 people, who will attend three full-day rehearsals with a professional choir director and musicians, before the concert on Sunday 12th August at Melbourne Town Hall.

Every year The Boîte (pronounced "bwaat") runs this mass choir project with a different musical theme, exploring and celebrating Australia's rapidly changing cultural landscape. This year features songs from the exquisite Mission Songs Project', which explores the musical journey of Indigenous Australian music and connects the traditional with contemporary, revealing the continuation of cultural practice and song tradition into the 21st century.

Jessie Lloyd launched the Mission Songs Project CD and concerts in 2017 to widespread acclaim. Her extensive research, musical training and family connections, and Indigenous background (as well as her persistence!) made her uniquely placed to uncover a precious part of our history"¦ secular songs that were sung after church, and that explore the day to day life of the mission days across Australia, from cultural identity to love and loss. These unique songs consist of almost forgotten stories that can now shed light into the history of our Indigenous elders, families and communities.

Jessie is Artistic Director for the Boîte Millennium Chorus this year, and choir director is Jess Hitchcock, an emerging Indigenous artist who tours with Jessie Lloyd and the Mission Songs Project as well as with Deborah Cheetham's Short Black Opera.

Joining the choir

Fees: Full price for Melbourne metro choir members is $199. Discounted fees are offered for concession card holders (not seniors), under 25s, families, regional members (100km or more from Melbourne CBD), and Boîte members. This covers rehearsal materials (printed songbook and digital audio song parts), three full-day rehearsals in Melbourne, the concert, commemorative t-shirt.

More information, registrations
Susan Wright, The Boîte 
(03) 9417 1983 
susan@Boîte.com.au
www.boite.com.au/boite-millennium-chorus/

Rehearsals
July: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th, 10.00am-4.00pm
August: Saturday 11th, 10.00am-4.00pm
Venue: Northcote Uniting Church
251 High St, Northcote VIC 3070

Concert
Sunday August 12th, 2.30pm
Melbourne Town Hall
Swanston Street, Melbourne