The Collaboration Choir
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Imagine doing a job which spreads euphoria amongst your clients, lifting their mood with soaring melodies and feel-good lyrics? Welcome to the world of Carrie Rawlings whose musical alchemy diffuses joy amongst the singers of her inclusive adult community pop choir.
Carrie launched The Collaboration Choir in Cambridgeshire in April 2022, but the company now leads over 600 people in song, across East Anglia with branches in Bedford, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Milton Keynes, St Neots and Woburn Sands.
With a soundtrack of uplifting contemporary pop, from Pink to The Turtles, sessions have a distinct party feel! Members, who range from 18 to 89 in age, also enjoy the empowerment of giving back through community concerts and charity fund-raisers. Most recently they raised over £15,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support with the music video featured HERE.
Cambridge-born Carrie has always loved music and began playing the xylophone aged four. By 10, she had mastered piano (and led the school in a Christmas musical), and at 11 was cast as Gerda in The Snow Queen. After gaining a performing arts degree and a postgraduate diploma in musical theatre (from prestigious Mountview), Carrie won her first major role in BBC period drama The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope. Theatre and TV work followed, before she moved into teaching, first young people, then adults at Rock Choir, where she was Cambridgeshire leader for nine years, performing at major events, from BBC Proms in the Park to a sold-out 02 Arena.
When Covid-19 hit, Carrie re-evaluated things and while home-schooling her two sons the idea of The Collaboration Choir was born.
Carrie also co-founded the close harmony group Vocally Bespoke and her own musical events company. She loves how singing transforms individuals from shy and inhibited to confident and empowered. She’s plans to spread the euphoria of collaborative singing far and wide as she recruits for more Choir Directors later this year!