Frequently Asked Questions

Cool Choir is run by fun-loving, people-loving, life-loving, outgoing and gregarious music professionals with formal musical training and extensive experience in the music industry.

Absolutely NOT! We are a NON-AUDITIONED adult rock and pop choir that welcomes everyone! Many of our members are shower, car and karaoke singers!

Cool Choir welcomes everybody! We believe “if you can speak you can sing”. When you bring large numbers of people into a room to sing, everybody’s voice blends together. Think about a hockey game. When the fans sing and chant together have you noticed how perfectly in time and tune they are? This is the result of the beautiful sound of human voices singing together. Don’t believe us? Check out our videos throughout our site of Cool Choir performing – do these people sound like “frogs” to you? 🙂

There is no upper age limit but you must be 18 and over to join

YES absolutely! There is no requirement for you to be able to read music to join Cool Choir

A multi-location Cool Choir community facilitates up to four opportunities (in up to four different locations) for members to attend each week in a designated community of choirs (within a designated geographic area or quadrant) run by one director. A single-location Cool Choir community has just one rehearsal weekly (usually in a small town, for example) where its members can attend, run by one director. Membership of single and multi-location Cool Choir communities are priced differently.

Should you wish to join Cool Choir in more than one Cool Choir community, you would be required to join each Cool Choir community on a separate membership.  Each choir is run by a different choir director and we are not singing the same songs in each Cool Choir community.

Check our locations page for full details!

YES, we offer FREE taster sessions weekly at any of our locations during each trimester.  

No. Each person is entitled to ONE free taster session at any one of our locations before deciding whether they would like to join as a regular member

YES, while we are primarily an all-inclusive choir, there are opportunities to perform as a soloist too. Opportunities to solo are offered through an informal, internal audition process throughout the year

Cool Choir rehearsals take place during three, 10-week trimesters.  Fall (September – November), Winter (January – March) and Spring (April – June).

No. Cool Choir membership must be paid upfront at the start of each 10-week trimester, much like you would any other club membership. At the end of each trimester you are free to decide whether you wish to rejoin and continue into the next 10-week trimester

That’s great, we welcome EVERYONE! Our members have a range of abilities and backgrounds

Cool Choir costs just $22 per week for multi-location Cool Choir communities or $18 per week for single-location Cool Choir communities. However, you only pay for the remaining weeks of the trimester following your FREE taster session (the first time you join). There is also a mandatory one-off cost of $20 plus GST for a Cool Choir T-shirt added to your first invoice. The Cool Choir t-shirt is worn by all members at performances. For more details on pricing, please visit our pricing page

You will be singing a mix of rock and pop songs from classic to modern!  We learn a minimum of 5 songs per trimester (ten weeks). Check out our What Do We Sing? page for an overview!

The day immediately following your FREE taster session you will receive an email containing a summary of information and a link to join Cool Choir

Once you join, your commitment is the remainder of the current 10-week trimester!  You can sing as much or as little as you wish – currently from 2 to 6 hours per week.  If you wish to perform, there may be some extra rehearsals that run closer to a performance but you will be notified well in advance of those dates and times.

For those wishing to perform, we do expect our members to know the words. Cool Choir is not a choir that presents itself during performances holding folders. We believe this negatively impacts both the performance, the presentation and most of all the ability to engage/communicate with an audience. We have lots of resources apart from the physical rehearsals to help.  Once you become a member you will have access to a private member’s area where we provide lyrics, sheet music and professional audio recordings of the songs we learn, separated by parts.  We put on extra rehearsals as we near a big performance and there are lots of smaller performances where you can join in and gain your confidence too throughout the year. Also, our directors are trained to provide clear, visual prompts during a performance – which members report being the most effective tool for lyrics recall. 

You will be given access to a private member’s area which contains all the information you will need to become an active member of Cool Choir.  You will find everything from performance information to rehearsal schedules.  Mainly, this is where you can access learning resources for the songs we sing 

Once you decide to join Cool Choir, you will receive an invoice.  All payments are made online only through the invoice. Upon full receipt of your payment, we will send you a welcome email within 24 hours with your username and password to start accessing the practice resources in the private member’s area of the website

There is no refund for rehearsals that fall on STAT holidays. You are encouraged to attend another rehearsal that week at one of the other choirs within a multi-location Cool Choir community or if singing in a single-location Cool Choir community, the rehearsal will be made up on either a different day that week, or added at the end of the trimester

Cool Choir is unlike any other choir you will join. We employ staff who work behind the scenes full time on a daily-basis to ensure members enjoy their experience to the maximum.   We don’t just turn up at rehearsal, sing for two hours and go home.  We spend our days looking for exciting new opportunities and experiences for members, arranging songs, socials, creating downloads/lyrics/sheet music and handling all of the administration that comes with organising a large membership-based organisation like this. There are a number of other costs involved in the running of Cool Choir too – from insurance, marketing, website maintenance, software, accounting and venue-hire to legal clearance of song rights, all of which amount to surprisingly huge overheads behind the scenes!

Yes…and what’s more…we’re offering a generous referral fee or a free choir trimester to anybody who helps connect us with a talented choir leader across Canada who subsequently goes on to launch a Cool Choir community of their own. Please get in touch if you think you can help and direct any potential Cool Choir leaders you think might be suitable to our careers page for the full role spec and application process

Yes. We’re currently looking for choir leaders across Canada and hope to expand to other cities and towns nationally over the next few years!