About this Event
F*Choir is a 70-strong, queer-led ensemble that radically reimagines what choral singing can be - bold, high-energy, full-body music that celebrates collective liberation, joy, and embodied resistance.
We’re rising from the ashes of winter, stoking the embers inside our collective bodies to deliver a burst of flames; bright and hot and NEW.
That’s right: new music. Tonnes of it.
Come and warm your bones with original compositions and fiery arrangements of songs by Cleo Sol, Kate Nash, Katerina Gimon and JADE, alongside a bunch of beloved F* bangers.
The Nest is Oxford’s first independent, inclusive music space centring young women, trans, and non-binary people by our friends at YWMP. For London F*ans, it’s only a short journey on the Oxford Tube.
Support acts //
DJ Set ++ Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani is an Iranian-Irish composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music explores the emotional terrains of intimacy, memory, and belonging through experimental sound. Based in Oxford and rooted in both Irish and Iranian heritage, Zahra creates genre-defying compositions that blend lo-fi jazz punk, shoegaze, and folk influences into raw, contemporary expressions of identity and queerness.
Timings//
3pm - Doors
3:30pm - Support Act TBC
4:30pm - F*Choir (+ BSL)
6pm - DJ set by Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani
8pm - Close
Further Info//
Founded by composer and multidisciplinary artist Jenny Moore and co-led with Sophie Chapman and Bianca Stephens, F*Choir is a groundbreaking community choir that rejects traditional music methods. They draw on the work of criminally underrepresented women, trans, non-binary, and queer artists to perform full-body percussive earworms. At its core, F*Choir is about claiming the right to our own voices as people who have been historically marginalised and excluded.
Having captivated audiences across the UK and beyond, F*Choir has performed sold out gigs at iconic venues such as Milton Court - programmed by the Barbican, EartH Hackney, Bishopsgate Institute, Wellcome Collection and the MOTH Club.
Audience feedback from our sold-out Barbican show:
“F*Choir took us on a profound song journey of magic realism with raw emotions & colourful surprises”
“It wasn’t just an auditory experience - the high I felt was visual, somatic, existential… every single cell of mine felt seen."
"F*Choir is one of the most radical and hope-giving choirs I’ve ever witnessed… genderless, borderless songs that champion the earth, our bodies, our rage, and our desperate will to breathe against the machine."
Ticket info:
Pay what you can on a sliding scale. Your support fuels our work and keeps our political voice loud and clear.
If none of these ticket prices are do-able, email us at [email protected]. Our shows are for you, and no one is turned away due to lack of funds.
Access info:
F*Choir's performance will have BSL interpretation.
Please test for COVID before coming to the gig.
Venue access info:
https://www.ywmp.org.uk/accessibilityatthenest
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Nest, 33-35 Little Clarendon Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
GBP 6.13 to GBP 22.38
