Sing for Happiness Christmas 2026 Rehearsals

Do you enjoy singing? Take part in our groundbreaking project! Book to join the Sing for Happiness project here This autumn, get involved with the ‘mini’ Christmas version of our Sing for Happiness project – with two sessions learning favourite festive tunes, and a final performance here at St George’s. We kicked off the Sing for Happiness project in 2024, and sang with over 1,500 of you! We made the news and went viral on social media. What’s more, initial results from the first round of research indicate that participants’ feelings of calmness, energy and mood were improved by singing together. After two years of data collection measuring whether group singing can improve mood and wellbeing the fascinating results of this research will soon be ready to publish. The next stage of the project will move into qualitative research – see below for more details. Now, the project continues, and you can now sign up to take part. We’d love to sing with you! We’re working with friendly, experienced choir leaders from the Bristol choir community to learn some great festive songs, meet new people, and find out how singing really affects our wellbeing. And we’d love you to take part and join hundreds of other keen singers! There will be online resources if you want to sing at home too. Don’t know how to sing? Don’t read music? Never sung before? It doesn’t matter! Maybe you’re a complete beginner, or maybe you’re already an experienced singer. Or perhaps you’re somewhere in the middle (do you sing in the shower, or in the crowd at a football match?) If any of these apply to you…then why not get involved? The project is open to anyone over 18, regardless of musical experience or ability – you just need to be keen to take part. This exciting and award-winning project has attracted over 1,500 singers to date from all walks of life so far. If you’ve never sung before, or not sung for a while, you’re in very good company, as one third of those taking part say they have not sung since childhood if at all, and a further third have told us that they don’t sing on a regular basis. Alongside the joy of communal singing, there is important research into the impact of singing on mental health, working with specialists from UWE, and we understand it to be the largest study of its kind in the country. The project will include two in-person rehearsals at St George’s across Autumn 2026, catch-up rehearsals online and a final performance on Sat 5 December. Please see below for further details, including dates and cost to take part. Book your tickets here to take part in Sing for Happiness at Christmas 2026