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Press contact: Harry Campbell (songleader) or Jane Henderson (chair) via [email protected]

Biography

Voicebeat is a world music community choir based in the West End of Glasgow. They meet weekly to sing traditional songs in unaccompanied harmony, drawn from a wide variety of styles and traditions around the world, and sing in languages from Armenian to Zulu. Founded in 2002 as part of an initiative to help refugees and asylum-seekers integrate, the group currently has about fifty active members of all levels of musical experience and none. Singers have come to the group from countries as diverse as Australia, Cameroon, China, Hungary, Finland, Slovenia, Estonia, India, Iran, Mexico, Poland, Singapore and Zimbabwe. Voicebeat perform regularly around Glasgow and released their latest CD in 2023.  www.voicebeat.org.uk
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A feast of unaccompanied harmony singing from languages and cultures around the world!

The name

Please note, the name of our group is "Voicebeat". Not "Voice Beat", "Voicebeats", "Voicebeat International Music Choir", "The Voice" or anything else, just "Voicebeat". If you want to make it clear it's a singing group and not a balalaika orchestra or trapeze act, please use the description "Voicebeat, Glasgow's world music community choir". Thank you!