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The choir that only sings in car parks
Concrete, echo and no booking fees. A choir of 60 has turned multi-storey car parks into the city’s strangest concert hall.
Culture editor
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The fourth floor has the best echo, the choir says.
The concert starts at seven on level four. The audience brings folding chairs; the cars have been asked to park on level two.
The choir has never sung in a church.
Acoustics by accident
Bare concrete gives a long, bright echo that suits old choral music. The choir’s director found it by accident while looking for her car.
Churches charge us, schools close at six. A car park on a Sunday is empty and nobody minds.
The operators agreed once the choir showed it could fill the café on the ground floor afterwards.
Copies across the country
Two orchestras have asked to borrow the idea. The choir’s only condition: keep the tickets free.
Sofia Brandt
Culture editor
Sofia edits the culture pages and writes about music, work and the crafts we are losing.
