THE Irish community in Birmingham are being invited to attend the BBC’s Songs of Praise, School Choir of the Year competition in the city over the St Patrick’s Day weekend.
The BBC will be recording the School Choir of the Year competition in Birmingham, which will be recorded at The International Convention Centre in Birmingham.
The competition will aim to showcase the very best school choirs in the UK as they attempt to win the coveted title “BBC Songs of Praise School Choir Of The Year”.
Twelve junior and senior school choirs, who have made it through the preliminary rounds, will go head to head to try to impress the celebrity judging panel, including singer and television presenter Myleene Klass and the international choral guru Suzi Digby.
The three programmes will broadcast on consecutive Sundays this Spring on BBC One.
In the first programme the six junior school choir semi-finalists sing a hymn of their choice before the best three chosen by the judges go forward to the Final.
The junior semi-finalists are:
Queen’s Lower School from Chester, St Martin’s Ampleforth from Yorkshire, Llangennech Junior School from Carmarthenshire, Lindley Junior School from Huddersfield, Ysgol Iolo Morganwg from Cowbridge in The Vale of Glamorgan and Blackheath Preparatory School from London.
In the second programme the six senior school choir semi-finalists sing their chosen hymn.
The schools are:
The Rochester Grammar School from Kent, Lincoln Minster School, The Grey Coat Hospital School from London, “Cantabile” from Hereford Cathedral School, Godolphin from Salisbury and Highgate School from London.
In the final, the best three junior and best three senior choirs come together to each sing an inspirational song to the audience and judges one more time before one choir from each category wins the trophy and becomes the BBC Songs of Praise School Choir Of The Year 2014.
