The Community Choirs Festival was founded in 2008 by Natural Voice Practitioners Alice Robin and Hilary Davies. Alice and Hilary organised the festival together until 2013 when Alice moved to New Zealand.

Helen Coll

Festival

Administrator

Hilary Davies

Festival

Organiser

Mollie Guilfoyle

Festival

Co-ordinator

Mollie has been the Festival Co-ordinator since the start in 2008. She makes everything work like clockwork and heads our wonderful team of Stewards.

Mollie directs and teaches Mime, Mask and Drama at the University of Birmingham and Applied Theatre on Birmingham School Of Acting’s Community and Applied Theatre course.

Helen has worked in many different roles in music education, culminating in over 20 years in teacher education at Birmingham City University. Since retiring she has been keen to take on new challenges.

Hilary co-founded the Community Choirs Festival in 2008. With a life long passion for unaccompanied harmony singing, she has more than fifteen years’ experience as a community choir leader and currently leads four choirs in the Midlands.

The Steward Team

Our wonderful friendly team of stewards has grown and developed over the years, honing their skills and knowledge, until they now function like a well-oiled machine!  Again this year, they introduced themselves in song at the beginning of the day.