FAQs

When and where are rehearsals held?

7-9pm on the 2nd, 4th and sometimes 5th Sundays in term time at Meadowdale Primary School, Meadowdale Road, Market Harborough LE16 7XQ

Is the venue accessible?

Parking is available in the school car park, including three designated accessible spaces. There is step free access to the hall and an accessible toilet is available. There is a short break in the middle of the rehearsal. The choir uses sheet music but alternative formats are available on request - please speak to Tracey or Sue.

How much does it cost?

£45 per term which covers venue hire, Musical Director, Accompanist and music. 

When are membership subs due?

Subs are due on 2nd January for the spring term, 1st May for the summer term and 1st September for the autumn term. 

Who can join?

Anyone aged 18 or over. 

Do you have a waiting list?

For practical reasons we have capped membership numbers at 100, so we sometimes need to operate a waiting list for new members, If you would like to join, please do register and we will get in touch as soon as a place becomes available.  

Do you offer a taster session?

Yes, we offer the first session as a free trial.

Do I need any musical experience?

No, anyone who loves singing and can hold a tune is very welcome. You don’t need to read music as Tracey records each part for choir members to sing along to. 

Do I need to bring anything with me?

Please bring a pencil and a water bottle. 

Do I need to audition?

No we don’t hold auditions, just come along!

Rehearsal Dates 2026/27

Autumn

6th, 13th, 27th September

4th, 25th October

8th, 22nd November

6th December

Spring

10th, 24th January

7th, 28th February

14th March

Summer

11th, 25th April

9th, 23rd May

13th, 27th June

Musical Director: Tracey Holderness

Tracey is a singing teacher and vocal coach from Market Harborough. After graduating from Sheffield University with a BMus, she gained a Post-Graduate Diploma in Musical Theatre from Arts Educational in London.

Tracey has worked for eight years as a professional singer during which time she performed as a soloist with light operatic companies and performed in a wide variety of musical theatre productions, most notably in the Rocky Horror Show and Return to the Forbidden Planet, both in the UK and Europe. Tracey teaches singing both privately and as a specialist teacher visiting several schools in the area.

Tracey has accumulated vast experience with amateur musical groups and companies including delivering technique workshops to adult choirs and leading Musical Theatre courses. She is the original conductor of the GBRT Community Choir and has toured with them to Barcelona, Bruges, Maastricht, Lake Garda, Rhineland, Fruili-Venezia Giulia and Umbria.

Accompanist: Rod Iliffe

Coming from a musical (and, a long time ago, science) background, Rod has a wealth of experience from running and accompanying the musical side of chapel, children's, youth and college choirs, choral groups, youth theatre and many stage groups, in both classical and theatre music. 

He is a piano and keyboard teacher, a writer, arranger and orchestrator, and conductor. In collaboration with his partner Kendal Kirkland he has written and arranged many works for performance, including A Requiem, Song of St Francis, Heloise (a concert length musical work first performed in Southwark Cathedral), Veni Creator Spiritus, and Songs of the Passion which grew from the music written for the Christ in the Centre open air performances in Leicester in the early naughties. 

He is also Musical Director of Amicorum, an upper voices ensemble made up of experienced choral and semi-professional singers from the Northampton area.