Amateur choir gets ready for first night of the Proms
Rashid Razaq12 April 2012
An amateur choir from north London is to perform at the opening night of the Proms.
Counting a doctor, a teacher, a sound engineer, a wine company executive and a clergywoman among its members, The Crouch End Festival Chorus will sing in front of 5,500 people at the Royal Albert Hall tonight.
It marks a spectacular rise for the group which started life in 1984.
The choir has also sung at the Barbican, Hampton Court and Glastonbury.
Chorister Margaret Ellerby, a GP, said: "The exhilaration you get from a Prom is wonderful."
