Choirs for Change is returning to Nocturne! On October 17th, every hour, beginning at 6pm, we will teach community members a song and perform it together. You have a voice to share, and we want to hear it!
Lyra: A Nocturne Choir is an all-ages, drop-in choir where no musical experience is necessary. During each session, Lyra’s artistic team will teach participants a song with simple harmonies. Connecting to environmentalism, Choirs for Change’s theme for the 2026/27 season, the artistic team will teach Nocturne goers an arrangement of “The Flood” by local musician Ben Caplan.
Choirs for Change is returning to Nocturne! On October 17th, every hour, beginning at 6pm, we will teach community members a song and perform it together. You have a voice to share, and we want to hear it!
Lyra: A Nocturne Choir is an all-ages, drop-in choir where no musical experience is necessary. During each session, Lyra’s artistic team will teach participants a song with simple harmonies. Connecting to environmentalism, Choirs for Change’s theme for the 2026/27 season, the artistic team will teach Nocturne goers an arrangement of “The Flood” by local musician Ben Caplan.
Group singing is a longstanding global tradition. It is a way of building community, sharing oral histories, and celebrating one another. Music making and singing—whether in a choir, at karaoke with beloved friends, in the shower belting your heart out, or at a campfire singalong—is a deeply human experience. Nova Scotia has a particularly rich musical tradition (kitchen parties, anyone?), and we hope to reimagine the traditional choral structure by inviting community members to sing easy-to-learn arrangements of songs by local artists. Historically, music has been a way of creatively moving through difficult experiences, and we are now in a period of time when we can safely gather as a community to rejoice and celebrate one another and our local artists.
To connect to this year’s Nocturne curatorial theme, we invite Nocturne goers to enter into a relationship with their own breath and the vibrations they create to make sound both as an individual and a collective. To sing is to be present in one’s body and relation to the world around them.
