An Ad For Various Voices London 2009

I've been a little busy lately, mainly because of my involvement with Various Voices London 2009. For those of you who don't know about Various Voices, it is the once-every-four-years gathering of virtually all the LGBT choirs in Europe, and international guests. The last one was in Paris in 2005, and it was a smash. Nothing beats the feeling of taking over a city for four days with other people of like minds, and the experience of performances, spontaneous singing and camaraderie is unbeaten.

In London of course, we are lucky to be joined on the LGBT choir platform by the London Gay Men's Chorus and Diversity. London is large enough, and varied enough, to sustain three excellent choirs, with very different musical styles. Indeed there are even more LGBT choirs than that in London, although they are not as well known. However, the three main choirs have come together to form Team London, the organising body for the next Various Voices festival in London in 2009.

The London choirs, of course, are part of Sing Out, the wider network of lesbian and gay choirs in the U.K. and Ireland, and in the even larger body of LeGaTo, the association of LGBT choirs in Europe. LeGaTo is actually short for "Lesbians and Gays Singing Together", so if you want to be pernickity the acronym should really be LeGaSiTo, but that would make no sense would it?

Obviously, we're off to Paris to enjoy the delights of the city, and to perform with Equivox, but our trip also represents another opportunity to cement the ties we have with other choirs in Europe. If you get a chance, hop on over to the Various Voices London 2009 website, it is undergoing rapid development as we speak. And if you have your own website or blog, please, please, link to it. The Pink Insider would be most grateful.

If you want to be a part of Team London then just get in touch with Adam (in the basses) or Simon (in the tenors), or email the team. Meetings are one evening a month, and we could sure use some help!