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Get your 2023 festive season started with the Games Maker Choir
Do you have plans to be in London the first weekend of December? Join The Games Maker Choir at not one, but two seasonal singing performances to start your festive celebrations in style this December. We’ll be at the glorious V&A in South Kensington at lunchtime (from 1pm) Saturday 2nd December 2023, the third time… Read more
Summer Social Singalong for Choir members past and present
Calling all former choir members, and those who haven’t been able to attend rehearsals for a while. Are you missing singing with The Games Maker Choir? You are invited to join the second half of our rehearsal for a singalong on Saturday 1st July 2023, followed by a summer social event. 🙂 Starting approximately 2pm… Read more
‘Tis the season to be singing Christmas songs
Read about the Games Maker Choir at the V&A Christmas 2022.
Games Maker Choir’s Tenth Anniversary Concert success!
WOW! What a wonderful evening! The anniversary concert delivered by the Games Maker Choir on the 8th of October 2022 was considered to be an immense success, with a great atmosphere in a packed St John’s Church, Hyde Park in London, the city where ‘The Games Makers’ – and the choir began. The elegant church… Read more
More great news for our Anniversary Concert
We are excited to announce that we will be joined by the Barnes Concert Band at our tenth anniversary concert on 8th October, at St John’s, Hyde Park, London. Formed in the early 1970s, the Barnes Concert Band now has almost 40 members and performs regularly in the Barnes Music Festival, summer bandstand concerts at… Read more
A busy weekend when “we came back home”
What a fabulous and a VERY busy weekend for the Games Maker Choir! On Friday 22nd July the choir were to be found mingling and singing with some well-known Team GB athletes from London 2012, the Mayor of London and representatives of the organisations involved in creating (arguably) the “Greatest Show on Earth” ten years… Read more
Looking Back and Looking Forward
We’re looking back AND looking forward in this anniversary year as we remember that amazing ‘Summer of Sport’ in London 2012. LOOKING BACK What are your memories of London 2012? Did you know you can share your #legacy #memories with the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park? Read some inspiring stories and share your memories… Read more
Performance Announcement! Celebrating some iconic 2022 events
We are excited to announce that The Games Maker Choir will be performing on Sunday 05 June 2022 as some very special major international events combine at an iconic venue. Join us at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to help launch the Queen’s Baton Relay as part of the Birmingham 22 Commonwealth Games! The Baton… Read more
Another very special guest announcement
We have more 10th Anniversary Concert news! We are delighted to announce singer songwriter Alistair Griffin will be joining us as part of our 10th Anniversary Concert at St Johns Hyde Park, London on the 8th October 2022. Alistair Griffin, the singer songwriter from the North East has a reputation for writing songs for the… Read more
10th Anniversary Concert news – DRUMROLL PLEASE
We have a A VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Would you like to know who the first of our guest performers are going to be at our 10th Anniversary Concert? We are hugely excited to announce that the Pandemonium Drummers are the first to confirm they will be joining us at St John’s Hyde Park for our London concert… Read more
Saturday 8th October 2022. Have you saved the date?
Unbelievably, 2022 marks 10 Years since the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games where our unique choir began. To celebrate this special year we are holding an anniversary concert in central London with invited guests. We would love you to join us in the city where it all began. So please save the date for… Read more
Happy New Year 2022! It’s a special one!
Happy New Year from the Games Maker Choir. Would you believe that it’s our TENTH Anniversary year? Who would have thought on the day when the choir of volunteer Games Makers first sang together in public at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – 9th August 2012 – that we would still be together, rehearsing, performing,… Read more
Congratulations to Team GB, and Thank You For The Medals!
We celebrate Team GB’s success in patriotic style as we return to rehearsals together. With an amazing collection of medals from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Team GB have again demonstrated the quality and breadth of sporting prowess in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. How amazing to finish 4th in the Medal Table of the best… Read more
Games Maker Choir singers and friends flexing their sporting volunteer muscles again!
It’s been super exciting to follow several musical friends volunteering in a selection of roles to help deliver a successful Euros 2020 football tournament in London recently. Based at different locations in and around Wembley Arena and Stadium and in a wide range of roles, it was lovely following their adventures via… Read more
We ARE a social bunch, getting together again
There’s not much that will stop members of the Games Maker Choir from socialising and as the government’s road map moves along, we’re taking full advantage of the restrictions easing. Timing nicely with some glorious spring weather several small, socially distanced gatherings for choir members, creatively named ‘Sit Out to Help Out’, have… Read more
We Wish For You The World!
The Games Maker Choir have recorded a new video, to pass on a heartfelt sentiment to the world. The song “I Wish For You The World” was first released and performed with singer songwriter Alistair Griffin who wrote the track with Richard Chance in 2012 to celebrate the London Olympics. The song has been rearranged… Read more
The rehearsals must go on!
Those face coverings can’t hide a Games Maker smile! The Games Maker Choir sing together again! We all know that the world has been a very strange place over the last few months and without exception we have all had to find new ways of adapting to everyday life. Choirs are no different,… Read more
Marathon support for Special Olympics – 2.6 challenge style
It would have been the 2020 London Marathon today, and many from our choir would have been volunteering or even running in this world class event. Sadly this was not to be, but members of the Games Maker Choir have risen to the event organiser’s Two Point Six Challenge and are raising funds for a very… Read more
The Games Maker Choir pull together – at a distance
During the current Covid-19 crisis the Games Maker Choir family are pulling together to support each other by as many means as possible. In the regular world, members of this unique choir are only able to meet up in person on the first Saturday of each month, as choir members are located all… Read more
The Games Maker Choir Showreel
Take a look at our latest showreel to see and hear the choir and some of our great experiences…. so far. There have been some truly unforgettable ‘pinch me’ adventures and performances for this merry band of volunteers who came together during and following the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, with several new members… Read more
About The Games Maker Choir
The Games Maker Choir is formed of over 150 Games Makers who volunteered at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and subsequent global sporting events. We were formed at The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park by young, volunteer Games Maker Victoria Verbi at London 2012 and have been performing for British sport at some of… Read more