TWO new choirs launcing in SEPTEMBER 2026
This autumn sees new groups starting in East Bergholt on Monday evenings, 7.45-9.15pm at the Constable hall, and on Wednesday mornings you’ll find us, 10-11.30am at Burstall village hall. More details on the choirs page. Come for a taster session!
Welcome to the friendliest choir you’ve ever sung in!
Is 2026 the year for you to release your inner diva?
Singing’s good for you, and when you do it with Pop Chorus, it is good for other people too! It’s more popular than ever as people recognise its health benefits. And our choirs carry that good feeling into their local communities. What’s so good about singing?
Join Pop Chorus to sing great pop songs in glorious harmony, meet lovely people and support the local community. We’ve grown from humble beginnings of just 8 singers in 2012 to over 400 singers in 8 groups across Suffolk – plus hit the singles charts, performed at Latitude Festival, sold out our own Ipswich Regent Theatre shows, and raised thousands for local charities.
Whether you’ve sung before or not, you won’t need to audition, read music or have any experience to join Pop Chorus (and performing’s entirely up to you). Our three terms per year start in September, January and after easter, but new members are welcome any time, so why not come for a taster session and start something new this year?!
Alternatively, our Wellbeing Sessions absolutely welcome anyone who just wants to turn up and sing along.
We’re delighted to have partnered with Cancer Support Suffolk this year, to raise funds and awareness of their enormously important work in our local community.
Everybody
WELCOME
No audition. No experience required. No need to read music. We’ll teach you the songs and help you find your way.
Sing great
MUSIC
We unashamedly sing great songs in glorious harmony or simple unison to backing tracks. Beneficial for your health, happiness and wellbeing.
HAVE
fun
Make friends – and enjoy extraordinary experiences in our Pop Chorus choirs from workshops to performing if you want to.
Performances
Sat 1 Aug
Burstall Vilage Show
We’re delighted to be able to perform at this proper traditional village fete. We’re singing at 1.45pm and 2.45pm.
Sun 30 Aug
Walsham Le Willows Open Gardens Weekend
Walsham has run the Gardens Weekend for over 40 years and it attracts many visitors from all over the region. We have been invited to sing outside the Memorial Village Hall to welcome and entertain guests as they take refreshments – you’ll find us there at 11.30am on Sunday morning.
Sat 12 Sept
Charity Fun Day at The Moon and Mushroom
Come and help us raise funds for Cancer Support Suffolk at The Moon and Mushroom in Swilland. As part of a great line-up, Pop Chorus will be singing at noon.
Fri 18 Sept
Come and sing… Queen & David Bowie ‘Under Pressure’
Picture yourself in a stunning venue, maybe a drink in your hand, an iconic bass riff starts up and there you are belting out an epic hit from 1981, surrounded by friendly faces – all experiencing the elation of hitting those timeless notes together.
Everyone’s welcome to channel their inner Freddie Mercury and David Bowie and sing a fabulous arrangement of the famous duet Under Pressure – taught by Yula, with Francis Goodhand on keys.
More information and tickets HERE.
Sat 26 Sept
Workshop – Woodbridge Ambient Voices as part of Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival – 12.30-2pm at The Art Haven in Whisstocks Place
Let’s form an ambient choir from scratch! Everyone is welcome to join this improvisational vocal group as part of Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival 2026.
This relaxed and fun workshop will offer simple, accessible tips and techniques for improvising with your voice as part of a group. The Art Haven will be our safe space to engage in vocal play, and to build confidence in these skills. You don’t need to be a ‘singer’ to take part, just open to using your voice and exploring a beautiful soundworld with others. Participants are then welcome to join a short performance, opening the ‘Tom Rogerson and Friends’ concert in St Mary’s Church in Woodbridge on Saturday evening.
More information and tickets HERE.
Sun 27th September
Pop Chorus Live at La Vida
We brought the house down last Christmas, so we’re going back to Felixstowe’s award winning showbar to do it again in September! We’ll be bringing our special brand of Pop Chorus joy and there’s bound to be an opportunity for a bit of audience participation.
We’re raising funds to support Community Pop Chorus CIC’s wellbeing singing sessions in Felixstowe – a twice-monthly, singing group, open to anyone and everyone (including people with dementia and their carers, people with additional needs, and anyone who just fancies a joyful morning of singing, banter, and tea and biscuits).
Tickets are just £6.50 and available HERE
Tue 29 Sept
Memories Through Music*
Spreading the Pop Chorus magic at Hillcroft House care home in Stowmarket.
*Private event
We take small groups of singers to lead joyful ‘Memories Through Music’ sessions at care settings throughout Suffolk. Contact us if you’d like us to come to you.
- Weekly termtime sessions (3 terms per year)
- Harmony-based pop from A-ha to Gaga
- Membership entitles you to attend multiple sessions every week
- Excellent learning resources and support, plus additional workshop opportunities
- Membership is £26.50 per month (concessions available)
- Exceptional experiences – from beatboxing with Shlomo and performing to thousands at Latitude, to recording charity songs, exciting collaborations and the famous choir roadtrips!
- No commitment (donation based)
- Attend whenever you like
- Weekly sessions all year, plus monthly groups in Felixstowe and Wickham Market
- Unison-based songs from the 50s, 60s and 70s to more recent numbers
- Simply turn up and sing along to lyrics provided
- Inclusive and welcoming to those with additional needs including dementia
- Predominantly seated session, only stand for occasional songs (if you want to!)
BUT DON’T JUST TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT!
Member
“I’m very glad I joined. Turns out singing makes me happy!”
Member
“A huge thank you, I have waited over 30 years to have the confidence to do this.”
Member
“I just love it. It’s something entirely mine and gives me so much happiness and joy.”
the choir
in action
Chorus at the Castle
Glorious end to our summer term with a lovely return to Framlingham Castle.
Radiohead ‘Creep’
What the hell are we doing here? A lush arrangement of Radiohead’s epic debut.
A Cappella Weekend
Bringing de facto a cappella legend Deke Sharon from San Francisco to Suffolk, and a bunch of choirs together.
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