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National events - This page celebrates the wonderful national events that the Rock Choir members have taken part in. Click on the headings below to read all about it...

Impromptu performances around the UK

Q: The Winter Whites Gala at the Royal Albert Hall

On the 8th of December 2012, Rock Choir were privileged to be invited to perform with Caroline at the Winter Whites Gala at the Royal Albert Hall. The Duke of Cambridge attended the gala held for the charity Centrepoint, of which he is a patron, in London.

Tennis greats Novak Djokovic, Björn Borg, Boris Becker, Chris Evert and celebs including Jude Law and Sadie Frost also came out to the Royal Albert Hall for the gala held to benefit the homeless and hosted by Jonathan Ross.

The event started off with Goran Ivanisevic and Tim Henman, who featured in one of the most memorable Wimbledon semifinals in 2001, meeting to replay the match, with Henman turning the tables on Ivanisevic as the showy Croatian clowned around.

After a short interval, the audience returned to their seats in absolute darkness. Slowly Caroline’s distinctive voice rose out of the darkness as a spotlight shone on her and the first few lines of Something Inside So Strong were heard. The lights grew stronger to reveal three hundred Rock Choir members standing on either side of the famous organ.

A number of speeches were made on behalf of the charity, and other veteran tennis players, including Boris Becker, came onto the court to enjoy a knockabout with some of the children helped by the charity. World no.1 tennis player Novak Djokovic was presented with a special Centrepoint award by the Duke of Cambridge.

Rock Choir rounded off this central part of the evening with a slick performance of Walking on Broken Glass, again featuring Caroline on solo vocals.

Tennis legends Mats Wilander, Mansour Bahrami, Pat Cash and John McEnroe rounded off a wonderful evening playing a hilarious doubles match, full of banter and tricks. A great evening in aid of a very worthy cause.

Q: Rock Choir Great British flash mob

At exactly 12.15pm on the 25th March 2012, at 38 locations around the UK, shoppers, tourists and passers-by were startled to find 'members of the public' spontaneously bursting into song. What they didn’t know was that these people were in fact Rock Choir members, who started to sing and dance to the shock and astonishment of onlookers standing right next to them. Should they join in? How did they know the moves? Was it a joke? At the end of the song, the Rock Choir members immediately carried on behaving normally as if nothing had happened! They simply walked away into nearby shops or back to reading their papers or drinking their coffee, not even looking around them to gauge a reaction. 

Train stations, shopping malls and even The Ideal Home Show all experienced the phenomenon that is a Rock Choir Flash Mob. ITV1 and Sky presenter Lee Baldry tweeted 'I've just been flashmobbed!!!' as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube became awash with peoples' reactions. Check out our video footage from many of the locations to see how onlookers' facial expressions changed from shock to incredulity and finally big grins as the performances continued.

The Rock Choir Great British Flash Mob raised an amazing £10,923.69 for Sport Relief, a biennial charity event from Comic Relief, in association with BBC Sport, which brings together the worlds of sport and entertainment to raise money to help vulnerable people in both the UK and the world's poorest countries. At the heart of the campaign are the nationwide Sport Relief Miles, at the venues of which many of the Rock Choir Flash Mobs took place.

 

Ascot, Henley, Caversham and Tilehurst Rock Choirs flashmobbed delighted onlookers at the Broad Street Mall in Reading Glen Harvey's Rock Choir surprised shoppers in Windsor Town Centre Fleet, Basingstoke, Wokingham and Maidenhead choirs performed at the WRS The crowd at Windsor raised £428.40 for Sport Relief Aberdeen Rock Choir were Dancing in the Street! Surprised Ashford Shoppers were serenaded by Rock Choir

Aberdeen's choirs rocked the Bon Accord Iris, Rock Choir's oldest member, pictured here with our lovely office ladies from Rock Choir HQ Hundreds of members mobbed Windsor Let Rock Choir Entertain You for Sports Relief Carrie Rawling's choirs rocked Cambridge Grand Central Beeston Rock Choir pose for a group shot in the East Midlands

Bicester rocked an open air Flash Mob The West Quay Shopping Centre Flash Mob was led by Rock Choir's Natasha Willis Entertaining the crowds in the Ashford Outlet Shopping Centre food hall were Rock Choir members from Canterbury, Ashford, Deal and Folkestone Guildford High Street was packed with 800 Rock Choir members Possibly our youngest Flash Mobber, snapped in Windsor! Michael Childs led the Bristol Rock Choir in perfect formation at the Cabot Circus Shopping Centre

Hertfordshire Rock Choir entertained travellers at St Pancras Station Trish and Angela, from Beeston Rock Choir, cunningly disguised themselves as members of the public Olly Murs met Chester Rock Choir member Gemma Walker at the Manchester Sport Relief Mile The Arndale Centre in Manchester rocked to the sound of 'Dancing in the Street' Shoppers were surprised by a Rock Choir Flash Mob at the High cross Shopping Centre in the East Midlands The Westfield Shopping Centre rocked to the sound of Rock Choir members from Rochester, Gravesend, Rainham and Kingshill

Q: Wembley Arena

 

It was the culmination of six months of planning, trials, tribulations and excitement for Caroline Redman Lusher and seven-and-a-half-thousand Rock Choir members as they made their way from around the UK to perform at Wembley Arena. On Sunday 15th of May 2011 they converged on the huge venue to sing together under one roof for the very first time. The day marked the launch of the partnership between Rock Choir and Missing People. Filling the Arena, Rock Choir members, friends and family held up over 10,500 posters of missing children to raise awareness for International Missing Children’s Day.

As the crowds of members piled into the Arena there was an audible buzz of anticipation. Many of the Northern members had come down on the specially-commissioned Rock Choir Express. One eye witness said “I was on a bus, all of a sudden I heard some bag pipes, looked to my left, a group of Rock Choir members were led out of the Wembley Central station by a man in a kilt playing bag pipes which was being filmed. The group were heading towards Wembley Stadium.” Yes, it was the Scottish contingent. As thousands of people in Rock Choir t-shirts, proudly carrying banners supporting their individual choirs and Choir Leaders, converged on the Arena the true scale of this vast operation became apparent.

Highlights of the concert included the Farnham Teen Rock Choir’s amazing medley of their favourite songs, the surprise performance by the Rock Choir men of Pretty Woman (all 120 men in Rock Choir met for four secret workshops to learn the song and dance routine), and the Choir Leaders performing the new track Where You Lead. The announcement of our SECOND Guinness World Record, for The Biggest Hit Act In The UK, also met with riotous applause and cheers.

Acts were interspersed with special mystery guests to sing with the Choir, including Rock Choir favourites The Soldiers with Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, actress and comedienne Deborah Stevenson to perform Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, and Wynne Davies (from the Go Compare adverts) with his mesmerising rendition of Nessun Dorma.

Members of our other charity, Refuge, were in the audience and spoke about the support that Rock Choir has given them over the past year and the awareness we have raised by dedicating all proceeds from Something Inside So Strong on the album to this very important cause. Something Inside So Strong aptly followed this with Caroline on lead vocals, and with 8,000 backing singers the phenomenal sound created brought tears to the eyes of many members.

 

The event also marked the culmination of months of filming by the ITV crew for the documentary ‘The Choir That Rocks’ and provided a fitting finale for the programme which was aired in June and then again in November 2011.

 

Highlights from the day

 

Here are the video highlights from the day 7,500 Rock Choir members went to Wembley Arena from all across the UK. The day was the most life affirming and joyful event ever and featured speeches from both Rock Choir Charities, Refuge and Missing People, a Guinness world record and 4 special 'Mystery' guests.

If you saw Rock Choir on The ITV1 Documentary 'the Choir that Rocks', this video is a good introduction to the rest of the Wembley day that didn't quite make their wonderful final episode!

 

Guest Stars - The Soldiers

 

Gary, Richie and Ryan from million album selling pop group 'the Soldiers' on stage to sing 'Don't let the Sun Go down on Me' with 7,500 Rock Choir members at Wembley Arena.

An astonishing experience for everyone who was there!

 

The Teens rock Wembley

 

Check out this clip from 'The Choir that Rocks' featuring the Teen Rock Choir. Young members from the 95 strong choir talk about how they are feeling, before and after the performance of their lives on the world famous stage at Wembley Arena.