The Big Sing Off 2024 comes to Wales
Choirs from across FCA rolled up to The Big Sing Off 2024 at the ICC Wales in Newport, Cymru on Saturday 28th September for a circus style extravaganza!
Ringmasters Managing Director John Platt, Operations Director Neil Morris and Mark Cartridge opened the show with a ‘Greatest Showman’ dance and then it was over to our choirs, made up of children and young people, foster parents and staff who wowed us with incredible vocals and choreography.
Each choir selected a song which they felt reflected the chosen theme of ‘Legends’ and performed to a crowd of 400 people.
Our children and young people, as always, were at the heart of the event with a number of them from our hosting region FCA Cymru co-presenting the event as well as performing in our second half.
We even had some special good luck messages from some Welsh celebrities! There was a range of Circus style activities and entertainment throughout the day including circus skills workshops, face painting, fairground games, popcorn and candy floss, carnival mask making, bubble workshops, magic mirror photo booths, meeting characters and so much more, all of which the children from Cymru had requested on their wish list for the event.
We were also wowed in the second half with a performance from world famous Afrikan Warriors who had us all on the edge of our seats with their amazing acrobatics!
A huge congratulations to FCA Northern Ireland’s ‘Emerald Melodies’ who were crowned the overall winners this year with FCA Yorks & Lincs ‘Y&L Stars’ taking second place and FCA Midlands ‘Kidz in the Midz’ taking third prize.
FCA Northern Ireland’s day of wowing the crowds didn’t stop there on their triumphant flight back home to Northern Ireland, the passengers and crew of their plane even asked for a performance of their winning song!
All of the choir performances were absolutely incredible. The effort and enthusiasm from everybody involved- children, young people, foster parents and staff was truly tremendous. All the choirs involved would have been very worthy winners.
