Scotland welcomes the Olympic Torch with a Summer of Song

Scotland will burst into song as the Olympic Torch weaves its way across the country from 8th to 14th June 2012, before a final visit on 21 June.

Singing a mixture of local favourites, new commissions, anthems, pop songs or traditional music, each community will unite to celebrate in song the values of the Olympic Torch: peace, unity and friendship.

Community choirs and new or existing singing ensembles will welcome members young and old to perform at key points on the Torch's route across Scotland. Singers will be recruited from professional or amateur backgrounds and each choir hopes that many new members will continue to enjoy singing collectively long after the Torch has left town.

At least 10 new songs will be created through the Summer of Song, as well as increasing the involvement of people with little or no singing experience. Young children aged between birth and five years will also take part through the Bookbug Rhyme and Singing sessions, which will see up to 7,000 babies, toddlers and young children take part through playgroups, schools and other events.

A taste of the plans for Scotland's Summer of Song include:

• A specially-created Moray 'High' Choir will welcome the Torch at Tomintoul, the highest village in Scotland on the Torch route
• Musician Dougie MacLean will create a song that will feature in a singing relay across Perth and Kinross - and will feature on Radio Tay
• In Rutherglen, a massed choir will sing well known pop songs, including Katy Perry's Firework as the Torch arrives in the town's Main Street
• Schoolchildren in Shetland will perform a song written in Shetland dialect on the theme of 'Light and Flame'
• Composer Kenneth Dempster will present Rising Wave which will bring together Aberdeen's choirs in song that celebrates the regions people, culture, dialects and connections with the sea

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For a full list of events taking place as the Olympic Torch travels through the country see www.london2012.com/olympic-torch-relay

Posted: Fri 06th April 2012

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