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Amika @ Burbage Community Arts Festival
Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 May 2012 10:40 Written by Michelle Crooks Tuesday, 08 May 2012 10:39
Amika will be performing at Burbage Community Arts Festival on Saturday 19th May. The concert will start at 8:00pm in St Catherine’s Church, Hinckley Road, Burbage, LE10 2DE.
Join us for what promises to be a lively singing spectacular.
Tickets are £7.50 for adults, £5.00 for children and £20.00 for a family, you can purchase them via the BCAF website.
Eva Organisation for Women (EOW) gig at Leicester University
Last Updated on Thursday, 03 May 2012 10:25 Written by Steve Sunday, 18 March 2012 13:51
We all had thoroughly enjoyable time with a youthful audience in the Percy Gee building at Leicester University on Saturday 17th March 2012. The response was remarkable and Una May would have been gratified at the product of her hard work in action. The choir sung 'as one' to four different conductors. Well done everyone and roll on our next performance! Photos and video will be available shortly hopefully.
The following email was received the next day from organiser Catherine Parker:
"On behalf of EOW can I send our heartfelt thanks to you and the Amika Choir for an astoundingly amazing and enthusiastic performance this afternoon at our event at University of Leicester.
The sound was atmospheric and electric; I personally have never heard such a great sound and harmony and I have attended lots of concerts in the UK and abroad.
The whole audience was deeply moved by the singing, and the singers - as they put their all into it.
We at EOW are linked up to African Prisons Project (APP), a UK-registered Ugandan and London-based charity that I work for, they have a male and female prisons choir CD called 'Freedom Cry'.
I just know they would adore your singing.
If you do have time to look on APP's website you will see details of this CD: www.africanprisons.org
Many thanks once again and please extend this to all the choir members.
We plan to send you some of the 'official' photos when ready and a copy of our press release this coming week.
Leicester Amika Community Choir
Leicester Amika choir
Leicester AMIKA Choir is a diverse group and sings songs from around the world and in many different languages: Yoruba, Hindi, Swahili, Italian, and many more. It's such fun and sometimes a challenge which we help each other with. Our learning is done by ear, so you don't need to read music. We have teaching CDs with songs in various parts so that choir members can listen and learn at home in between meetings and in preparation for performances.
Una May Olomolaiye is our Musical Director
We sing in four parts usually: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. It's Ok if you don't know which you are - come along and find out! There are opportunities for choir members to learn solos as part of our repertoire, although there's no pressure on you to do this.