Apparently, getting rooms full of people together to sing brilliant songs VERY loudly occasionally attracts a bit of attention.
Over the years, So Choir! has popped up on TV, radio and in the press — from workplace choirs and unexpected appearances with bands to 130 of us belting out Shed Seven in three-part harmony at Selby Town Hall.
So, we’ve gathered some of our favourite bits together into a little virtual scrapbook. Have a nosey…
130 voices take on Chasing Rainbows — and Shed Seven take notice!
In August 2026, we released our biggest singalong yet: 130 voices filling Selby Town Hall with a huge three-part harmony version of Shed Seven’s Chasing Rainbows.
Then Shed Seven found it.
The band shared the video, frontman Rick Witter joined in with the reaction — and before we knew it, our enormous Yorkshire singalong was making headlines of its own.
“Sounds incredible.”
Shed Seven
“How are we going to fit you all on stage?”
Rick Witter
Read the full story in the Wakefield Express →
One man’s mission to make choirs cool again
Back in February 2019, the Yorkshire Evening Post came along to find out what So Choir! was all about — three-part harmonies, brilliant songs, bars rather than rehearsal rooms, and absolutely no auditions, sheet music or singing on your own.
They also spoke to some of our singers about the friendships, confidence and feel-good factor they’d found along the way, and covered some of our early adventures with The Feeling, Dodgy and KT Tunstall.
Seven years on, we’re still not entirely sure we’ve made choirs cool. Apart from So Choir!, obviously.
Read the full Yorkshire Evening Post feature →
So Choir! surprises Dodgy’s audience at Holmfirth Picturedrome
After Dodgy discovered our version of Staying Out For The Summer on YouTube, they invited us to get involved with their 25th Anniversary Homegrown tour — including one particularly memorable night at Holmfirth Picturedrome.
The plan? Hide 105 So Choir! singers in the audience and, just before Dodgy took to the stage, suddenly burst into Staying Out For The Summer in three-part harmony.
Nobody else in the room knew it was coming. It worked. The audience joined in. And somehow we managed to keep 105 So Choir! singers quiet long enough to pull it off.
Read the full Yorkshire Evening Post story →
Workplace Choir Helps Leeds Office Workers Hit The High Notes
Way back in 2016, the Yorkshire Post came along to see what was happening at our lunchtime choir at Wellington Place in Leeds — where office workers were swapping desks, emails and spreadsheets for an hour of singing together.
The article was one of the first bits of press coverage So Choir! ever received, shining a light on our slightly different take on workplace singing and the social side of getting people from across the working day together through music.
And this one’s still going! Wellington Place Social Choir has been a permanent lunchtime fixture at Wellington Place for 10 years — and these days it’s open to everyone, whether you work there or not.
This article is no longer available online, but we’ve kept the original press clipping here for posterity.
Singing on your lunchbreak? Apparently so.
TheBusinessDesk also picked up on our new Wellington Place choir back in 2016, focusing on the slightly unusual idea of getting Leeds city-centre workers away from their desks and singing rock and pop songs in their lunchbreak.
The idea was deliberately simple: no commitment, no auditions — just turn up and sing.
Ten years later, we’re still there. So we reckon the idea might have had legs.
This article is no longer available online, but we’ve kept the original press clipping here for posterity.