South Burnett singing group Sing Australia are looking forward to hosting a famous visitor on Saturday.
Colin Slater, OAM, the founder of Sing Australia, will be visiting Kingaroy to conduct the group’s Regional Gathering Workshop.
Colin, from Melbourne, was a State finalist in the Australian Of The Year Awards in 2010.
He has set up more than 150 choirs across the nation catering for more than 5000 participants.
Colin is passionate about encouraging everyone to sing and says his mission is to bring joy to Australians through song.
He has been particularly active in establishing choirs in remote drought-effected areas with the hope of injecting good cheer into those communities, and helping people to use singing as a positive outlet for their frustrations.
He also leads a choir group to Gallipoli every year to participate in Anzac Day services.
The organisation he founded – Sing Australia – runs workshops, organises concerts and provides song books and music CDs to help choirs get up and running.
One of the reasons it’s been so effective, he believes, is that no prior singing experience is necessary and no auditions are held for the group’s choirs.
Everyone is welcome, even tone-deaf people.
On Saturday, the South Burnett branch of Sing Australia will be running a two-hour workshop at the Uniting Church Hall at the corner of Alford and Youngman streets in Kingaroy between 1:30pm and 3:30pm, followed by an afternoon tea.
Anyone who’d like to join the group in song is very welcome to come along, and there’ll be a wide range of songs to join in with.
The workshop – which includes afternoon tea – costs $15.
If you can’t make it on Saturday, the local branch of Sing Australia meets at the same venue every Monday night between 7:00pm and 9:00pm during school terms.
You can obtain more information about the local branch of Sing Australia by phoning Sharron Coughlan on (07) 4163-2291 or 0431-816-071.
