OPEN DAY: Sing Acappella With Totally Vocally!
A day of acappella pop singing for choirs, vocal groups & singers!
Presented by: Abi Moore| 0 | NOTTINGHAM: The Poppy and Pint (info) |
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| P | Saturday 16th August, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 9:45am Start time: 10:00am |
| . | 18 and over |
| C | Music - General |
Event information
Spend a full day (10am-4pm) singing contemporary pop / rock / gospel songs in big, acappella harmonies with celebrated Musical Directors Abi Moore (Totally Vocally / Crazy Little Sing Called Pub) and Dom Stichbury (Chaps Choir / Bellow Fellows / Spooky Men's Chorale.)
No need to read music- you'll learn all songs by ear. If you've been on the Totally Vocally waiting list, this is the perfect opportunity to meet everyone and come see what we do, and how we learn together. (But it's also open to singers that aren't on the waiting list!)
Spend the lunch break socialising with other like-minded acappella enthusiasts!
Over 18s only.
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About Dom Stichbury
Dom Stichbury is a choral director, singer, arranger, workshop leader and group singing advocate. He is founder & artistic director of lower voice groups Chaps Choir & Bellow Fellows, one half of vocal duo Ben & Dom and a member of vocal quartet Oaken.
He performs with the Australian based Spooky Men's Chorale, spent a decade singing with the London Vocal Project and has extensive experience as an ensemble singer.
As a musical director & arranger he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Tom Odell, Omar, The Magic Lantern, Joe Stilgoe, Hattie Webb, Daylight Music & Samantha Whates. He has decades experience working with contemporary vocal ensembles as a director & singer. Commercial collaborations include sessions for Felt Music, Mr Pape, & Adelphoi Music.
A passionate educationalist, Dom has been encouraging people to sing together in village halls, offices, prisons, schools, festivals and building new communities through this life changing activity. Collaborations and education projects include Wilderness Festival, The Good Life Experience, Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall, The Orpheus Centre, Spitalifields Music, Port Eliot Festival, Huutajat (Finnish Shouting Men's Choir), Beating Time, Choir With No Name.
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About Abi Moore
Abi Moore is a Choir Director, Workshop Leader and Acappella Arranger based in Nottingham. She is Musical Director for her choir Totally Vocally, and she founded Crazy Little Sing Called Pub, which runs monthly in the city. Abi enjoys making split-screen videos for her globally-popular acappella arrangements, which receive thousands of views on her Acapella With Abi YouTube channel.
She was Guest Soloist with Choir Invisible, performing at the Notre Dame Cathedral and the UNESCO headquarters in Paris for the inauguration of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Bilbao Peace Prize in 2012.
In 2017, she led a small group of singers on tour with Prince tribute band the New Purple Celebration, performing live at venues such as the Royal Concert Hall and Albert Hall. She took Totally Vocally to New York to sing in front of 3,000 people at the Lincoln Center with Deke Sharon in 2018, singing with stars from the Pitch Perfect films, Pentatonix and Voice Play. They also performed with Gareth Malone at a sold out Nottingham Playhouse in November 2022, invited by Gareth to be his on-stage choir for the Nottingham leg of his UK tour. She has recently completed a course in Innovative Choirleading at the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark, under the tutelage of Jim Daus Hjernoe, Peder Karlsson and Jesper Holm.
