Get your group heard by one million music lovers!
Classic FM is the UK's largest commercial radio station with an audience of almost seven million listeners. As part of our ongoing partnership with them, we regularly offer member groups the opportunity to submit their CDs for broadcast on Classic FM’s flagship The Full Works and Drive programmes (these shows each enjoy around one million listeners every week!).
We have been offering members this opportunity since the partnership was launched in 2008, and the response from listeners has been hugely positive. There have been several high-profile broadcasts, including an afternoon of performances by member choirs throughout Christmas Day in 2009 in a programme entitled Making Music – Christmas Day. The latest broadcast was made during July and August 2011, following an invitation to our member choirs.
Counting down to Christmas with Making Music on Classic FM
This year, we invited choirs to send in their Christmas recordings, and the response has been overwhelming! So much so that John Brunning and Classic FM have decided to feature twenty Making Music groups during the run-up to Christmas. For two weeks (starting on 5 December), one group will be featured each evening on the popular ‘Drive’ show, at around 6:15pm. This is a wonderful opportunity for each group to be heard by the whole nation, as well as raising the profile of amateur music in general.
The first group to be featured was Goldsmiths Choral Union, with a recording of ‘We wish you a merry Christmas’. The second group is St George’s Singers, performing ‘I Saw Three Ships’. Please keep an eye on our twitter feed for more information, and listen in to Classic FM each day at 6:15pm.
Here are also some helpful online guidance and tips from Classic FM about creating recordings suitable for radio broadcast. Please note that these tips were written with choirs in mind but also have relevance for any group recordings.
