Choir show to gather donations

Dunedin Children’s Choir will celebrate the Christmas season this weekend with a very special concert and collection for children in need.

Titled "Our Gift for You" the concert will be held this Saturday from 2pm at St Patrick’s Basilica, Macandrew Rd, and will also be livestreamed.

The Dunedin Children’s Choir will be joined for the concert by guest artists Ozan Biner-McGrath (piano), Erin Connelly-Whyte (soprano) and Claire Barton (mezzo-soprano), and MC Melanie Kerr will lead the joyful celebration.

Entry to the event will be a donation for local children in need this Christmas.

Saturday’s concert will celebrate a successful year for the Dunedin Children’s Choir, after the Chamber Choir came home with a Silver Diploma, level 6 from the World Choir Games, held in July at Auckland Town Hall.

The whole choir also performed at Tūhura Otago Museum in October.

Dunedin Children’s Choir, which comprises singers aged 7-13 years from across greater Dunedin, is led by Natasha Manowitz, Susan Frame and Helen Rutherford.

The choir rehearses on Wednesdays from 4.50pm at Flagstaff Community Church in Helensburgh and welcomes any child who loves to sing.

For more information, visit the website www.dunedinchildrenschoir.co.nz

Entry to Saturday’s event will be a donation of either cash, a gift or experience vouchers for local children in need this Christmas, to be distributed by St Vincent de Paul and Presbyterian Support Otago.

The concert is supported by Mercy Parish Whānau Aroha.