Martinborough Community Choir

The Martinborough Community Choir is the only community a cappella choir in the South Wairarapa, and had its first rehearsal towards the end of 2012. We sing songs from many countries and different musical genres. Choir practice is held every Tuesday eve throughout the year, apart from a break for our summer holiday.

The choir's first community choral concert was in December of 2013. Since then we have sung several times at public events in and around Martinborough, including the Wairarapa Vocal Spectacular 2013, the Olive Harvest Festival Night Market, at Wharekaka - our local rest home, at the Jazz In Martinborough Festival 2014, and now we're planning for our December 2014 concert.

Attendance at choir has continued to grow since we began, and we are now looking for a bigger venue (bigger than this choir leader's living-room), which we will need to hire. Our costs for annual - or twice yearly - workshops by visiting choral experts, for our sheet music, learning tools and stationery are all increasing as our numbers increase.

In order to keep choir affordable, so that everyone and anyone is welcome and able to join, we are looking for some funding.  This would also enable us to put on a great end-of-year concert for the local community in December of this year, with free admission (with optional koha), so everyone would be able to attend.

The choir is gradually becoming an important part of Martinborough's cultural life, and we're hoping it will continue to grow and improve for many years to come, as we all know that community singing is good for the soul!