Rosie Sleightholme is a community choir leader based in South Bristol, UK. A member of the Natural Voice Network, she is passionate about bringing people together through song and absolutely loves the magic that is created through singing in harmony. She welcomes every voice to her groups and teaches by ear, so there is no need to read music.
Brought up in a musical family, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Rosie has sung in many choirs (first experiencing a capella singing as a member of jazz choir The Oxford Gargoyles) played in orchestras and performed her own songs at gigs and festivals all over the UK and further afield (“Utterly wonderful stuff”, BBC Radio).
She came to choir leading when she was pregnant – setting up Womb Sisters pregnancy choir, then Folks & Bairns parent and baby choir, and then Rising Sun Singers community choir, all in South Bristol. In early 2022, Rosie was thrilled to be appointed as new leader for People of Note.
Her choirs have featured in Classic FM and on BBC TV and radio. Rosie teaches a range of four part harmony songs from all over the world, keeping a varied repertoire to keep things interesting for choir members, and for her! She also arranges and writes her own songs for choir.
Rosie has done leadership training with Susie Ro Prater, Vocal Process training with Jeremy Fisher and Gillyanne Kayes, and was trained in breathing and vocal support by Ingrid Rugheimer of the British Voice Association.
WORKSHOPS
Rosie loves running workshops and camps and in 2024 she set up a brand new workshop series called ‘Saturday Sings‘. In each of these workshops, Rosie shares the teaching with a fantastic guest composer, and they take it in turns to sing their own SATB choir songs. Previous guest composers have been: Helen Chadwick, Katy Rose Bennett, Anna Tabbush, Ben See, Helen Yeomans (2024), Kirsty Martin, Lea Morris, Ryan O’Riordan, Emily Roblyn and Dom Stichbury (2025) and her 2026 guests are Seamas Carey, Molara Awen, Bruce Ncube, Wendy Sergeant and Una McCann.
See HERE for more info and tickets.
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