Peregrine Grange Road St Michaels Tenterden Kent TN30 6TJ

Equator Choir Competition Finalist’s Concert with a world music flavour

The Equator Choir Competition Finalist’s Concert will be taking place at St. Mary’s Church, Ashford, on Thursday 2^nd July at 7pm. This event is part of the Equator World Music Series, a celebration of world music, dance and theatre in Ashford.

Schools, youth, and adult choirs from across Kent were invited to submit an entry and eight choirs have been shortlisted to perform for the audience and judges at the final. Each entry had to include at least one song from another country or culture.

The judging panel includes highly experienced musicians from round the country including Perri Alleyne-Hughes, music director of Sense of Sound - one of the finalist choirs from the BBC Last Choir Standing Competition, Paul Patterson -composer, Deborah Miles-Johnson, associate chorus master from the Philharmonia Chorus, and Priti Paintal - composer and Artistic director of Equator.  

Choirs will be judged on the following:  presentation, quality, and choice of material.

The final event of the spring season of the Equator World Music Series will be Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies. For more information about the Equator spring season please visit www.shivanova.com.