Quire Belfast LGBT Singers
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Quire's mission
Quire's mission is to: excite, empower, educate, encourage, entertain and enrich the members of Quire, the LGBT community, and the wider community through the celebration of music making, diversity and friendship.
The story so far...
Quire: Belfast LGBT Singers formed in April 2005 as an initiative of the Rainbow Project to set up a singing group to perform at the Belfast Pride celebrations in August that year. Around 15 people came to the first meeting - many of whom still sing with Quire. Our current singing membership stands at 25 men and women.
Quire became an independently constituted arts organisation in 2007.
With the leadership of our first musical director, Evan Ferrar, Quire soon grew from strength to strength, performing in 2006 with Gloria, Dublin's lesbian and gay choir, at their concerts in Belfast's Waterfront Hall and the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
When Evan had to say goodbye to Quire (and Ireland) for professional reasons in summer 2006, we were lucky to welcome a new
musical director, Ross Anderson, and assistant MD, Jonny McMillen-Patterson. Ross and Jonny have led Quire ever since.
In pursuit of Quire's mission, we have performed throughout Ireland, at community events large and small, as well as staging our own concerts in 2007 and 2008 in Belfast's Black Box as part of the annual Outburst queer arts festival.
Quire's repertoire is varied, ranging from traditional to musical theatre, pop and classical. We have performed at a number of civil partnership ceremonies and so our repertoire also includes plenty of love!
...and in the future
Our aim for the future is to grow, exploring new ways to achieve our mission to excite, empower, educate, encourage, entertain and enrich the members of Quire, the LGBT community, and the wider community through the celebration of music making, diversity and friendship.
As a choir with its roots in the LGBT community, Quire has always been able to count on fantastic community support.
Thank you for joining us on our journey!