Sing for Happiness Rehearsal Ticket

We’re launching a Christmas ‘mini’ Sing for Happiness this autumn – with two sessions learning favourite festive tunes, and a final performance at St George’s. Working with local choir leaders including Ben England, Anya Szreter and Kim Samuels, we want to know if singing together can help ease your stress levels and improve your mood during the busy Christmas period?

We launched this groundbreaking project in spring 2024, working with a team of UWE researchers to see whether singing really can improve your mental wellbeing and mood. Working with local Bristol choir leaders, we ran a series of singing sessions followed by a final performance at Bristol Beacon, where participants learned to sing popular songs and took part in the research. Hundreds of you took part, including many who’d never sung before, or hadn’t sung since childhood – we were blown away by participants’ passion for getting involved with both the music and the cutting-edge research. We also partnered with several local charities to widen access to the project. This summer, Sing for Happiness made national news and went viral on social media! At the time of going to print, the research analysis is in progress – and we’re excited to say that Sing for Happiness will return in spring 2025 for its next phase…