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.
March 2025
Weekly Practice – 27 March 2025
Come and join us for our weekly practice. If you're coming to see what we do, drop in a bit early and introduce yourself.
| Location | Hughes Baptist Church, 34 Groom Street, Hughes |
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| Time | 7:30 pm |
Brumbies v Highlanders
The choir will sing in the East Members Lounge (upstairs above the concourse) during the period 6:50–7:25 pm.
| Location | Eastern Gate GIO Stadium Bruce |
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| Time | 6:15pm |
April 2025
MCAA Rehearsal & Impromptu Concert in Sydney
Members of local and regional choirs have the opportunity to participate in a two hour workshop from 2 to 4pm followed by a one hour public performance from 5.30 to 6.30pm
| Location | Pitt Street Uniting Church, 264 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000 |
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| Time | 2:00pm |
Anzac Day Dawn Service, Bungendore
| Location | Bungendore War Memorial, 56 Gibraltar St, Bungendore NSW 2621 |
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| Time | 05:30am |
Anzac Day Main Service, Bungendore
| Location | Bungendore War Memorial, 56 Gibraltar St, Bungendore NSW 2621 |
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| Time | 10:30am |
Anzac Day Concert at The Royal Hotel, Bungendore
| Location | The Royal Hotel, 34 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 |
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 |