The Big Sing

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Kavanagh College choir A Cappella performs 'Torches, Torches.'

Queen's High School choir Vocarmony performs 'Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me.'

Boys' Choir 2012 (Otago Boys' High School) performs 'Late in My Rash Accounting'.

Bayfield High School choir Dolce Concordance performs 'Another Opening, Another Show.'

St Hilda's Collegiate Madrigal Choir performs 'City Called Heaven' during the New Zealand Choral Federation Big Sing held at Knox Church in Dunedin yesterday.

Dunstan High School choir Dunstanza performs 'Wairua Tapu.'

19 choirs (about 500 pupils) from secondary schools in Otago and South Canterbury performed for adjudicator Peter de Blois.

Results:
Pre-1930 European song, Tutti Cantare (Otago Boys' High School and Otago Girls' High School); best performance of a New Zealand song, Sings Hilda (St Hilda's Collegiate); choral excellence, Craighead Choir (Craighead Diocesan School, Timaru); most improved choir, Logan Park High School; most promising student conductor, Sam Madden (Otago Boys'); highly commended: Tutti Cantare, Boys' Choir 2012 (Otago Boys'); Baroque (Otago Boys' and Otago Girls'); Craighead Choir; commended: St Hilda's Madrigal (St Hilda's); Sings Hilda, Southern Hesperides (Otago Girls'); capturing the spirit of the festival: King's Choir (King's High School).

At the conclusion of the regional festivals, 18 choirs will be selected to participate in the national final.

Photos by Gerard O'Brien; prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.

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