On Saturday 28 January a joint QEH and Red Maids’ School Choir will sing at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery on Park Street. Performing at 2.30pm they form part of a day-long celebration of Chinese New Year, which includes traditional dances, family trails and dragons flying overhead!  

The choir, consisting of 25 girls and 15 boys from Years 9 to 13, will then prepare to fly to Beijing on Saturday 11 February for an eight-day tour. As well as seeing several cultural highlights such as the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Terracotta Army, the group have three performances lined up. The first is at a school in Beijing, the second is in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing and the third is outside a school in Xian.

The choir, together with talented string and woodwind players, is currently working hard to perfect its performance which includes some Spanish and African pieces, the instrumental item The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba and choral pieces such as Bridge Over Troubled Water, Rule Britannia and The Bare Necessities.

Mr Stephen Browne, Director of Music at The Red Maids’ School said, “We are pleased to have the chance to perform at the Bristol Museum to celebrate Chinese New Year and the 2012 Year of the Dragon. It all forms part of our preparations for the big trip to China a few weeks later.”

Please feel free to join in the celebrations, entry to the museum is free.