The Choir is singing regularly at Brumbies home games, our annual concerts and other events in and around Canberra and at memorial services in Bungendore as well as at the Australian War Memorial. We continue our association with the Male Choirs Association of Australia with the next concert at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre in May 2025. With the British Lions visiting in 2025, we are also preparing to sing with their choir in August 2025 at the Sydney Opera House.
April 2025
Anzac Day Dawn Service, Bungendore
The Bungendore War Memorial S355 Committee hosts the annual Anzac Day ceremonies.
Dawn Service assembles from 6:00am at the Town Cenotaph. Choir participants should be in in place by 5:45am.
Note that Gibraltar Street from Majara Street to Butmaroo Street will be closed from from 5:30am to 7:00am.
| Location | Bungendore War Memorial, 56 Gibraltar St, Bungendore NSW 2621 |
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| Time | 05:45am |
Anzac Day Main Service, Bungendore
The Bungendore War Memorial S355 Committee hosts the annual Anzac Day ceremonies.
Main Service assembles from 10:30am. Choir members should be in place by 10:15am.
Note that Gibraltar Street from Molonglo Street to Majara Street will be closed from 9:30am to 12:30pm for the Main Service and March.
| Location | Bungendore War Memorial, 56 Gibraltar St, Bungendore NSW 2621 |
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| Time | 10:15am |
Anzac Day Concert at The Lake George Hotel, Bungendore
| Location | The Lake George Hotel, 20 Gibraltar St, Bungendore NSW 2621 |
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| Time | 12:30pm (TBC) |
May 2025
Brumbies v Waratahs
| Location | Eastern Gate GIO Stadium Bruce |
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| Time | 6.00 pm |
Male Choirs' Association of Australia (MCAA) Festival
This event is being hosted by the Metropolitan Male Choir of South Australia. The guest conductor is Evan Patton.
Final Rehearsals and Performance Times, Locations etc:
• Saturday 24 May 12.30 – 4.00pm (Adelaide Entertainment Centre – Theatres) Seating allocations into choir sections from 12.30. Singers move onto stage around 1.10pm. Rehearsal choir with Piano 1.30 – 2.00pm. Orchestra arrives 2.00pm. Singers dismissed at 3.45 approximately.
• Sunday 25 May (Adelaide Entertainment Centre – Theatres). Singers should plan on arriving between 12.30 and 1.00pm. Doors open to the Public at 1.00pm. Concert starts at 2.00pm and should finish between 4.00 and 4.30pm.
Remember you MUST attend both Saturday rehearsal to perform on Sunday.
| Location | Adelaide Entertainment Centre |
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| Time | 12.30 pm |
Sandakan Remembrance Day Commemorative
This year marks the 80th Anniversary of the final Sandakan Death March in Borneo. This ceremony is in memory of the 1,787 Australian prisoners who lost their lives and the six Australian prisoners who survived these death marches
July 2025
Brumbies v British & Irish Lions [ARC involvement TBC]
The Choir's participation is still to be confirmed.
| Location | Eastern Gate GIO Stadium Bruce |
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| Time | 6.00 pm |
August 2025
Lions Male Choir and Friends at the Sydney Opera House
The Lions Male Choir will stage massed male choral concerts with select Australian male voice choirs around Australia to coincide with the British Lions Tour matches between late July into early August 2025.
The Australian Rugby Choir will perform with the Lions Male Choir at the Sydney Opera House on Friday 1st August.
At this stage, the performance venue is in the "Studio", although this may change depending on ticket sales.
The ARC last performed in the Sydney Opera House with the Lions Rugby Choir in 2007. In 2013, as part of the British & Lions Rugby tour of that year, the ARC was the only Australian choir invited to join the touring UK massed choirs to perform in the Sydney Town Hall at the end of the rugby tour.
Check out the photos www.rugbychoir.org.au/gallery/79/opera-house-gala-concert.html
www.rugbychoir.org.au/gallery/1949/sydney-town-hall-lions-choir-7th.html
www.rugbychoir.org.au/gallery/1880/brumbies-lions-june-18.html
www.rugbychoir.org.au/gallery/1869/lions-parliament-house-welcome-june-17.html
| Location | Sydney Opera House |
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| Time | 7:00pm |