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.
May 2025
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.
www.adelaideentertainmentcentre.com.au/events/metropolitan-male-choir/
Doors open to the Public at 1.00pm. Concert starts at 2.00pm and should finish between 4.00 and 4.30pm.
Singers should plan on arriving between 12.30 and 1.00pm. Remember singers MUST attend the Saturday rehearsal to perform on Sunday.
| Location | Adelaide Entertainment Centre |
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| Time | 12.30 pm |
Weekly Practice - Thursday 29 May
| Location | Hughes Baptist Church, 34 Groom Street, Hughes |
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| Time | 7:30 pm |
National Sandakan Remembrance Day Commemorative Ceremony
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.
Ceremony will commence at 2:00pm.
Choir members are to arrive by 1:00pm for sound check.
| Location | Sculpture Garden Australian War Memorial |
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| Time | 1:00pm |
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
Combined Rehearsal for Lions Male Choir Concert
Rehearsal for the Lions Male Choir concert for members of all participating choirs.
| Location | TBA |
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| Time | 11:00am |
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 7pm. The performance venue is in the "Studio". www.sydneyoperahouse.com/visit/our-venues/studio
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 | Studio Sydney Opera House |
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| Time | 7:00pm |
December 2025
Australian Rugby Choir Annual Dinner
Annual dinner for choir members, musical staff and invited guests to celebrate the year of singing and recognise special achievements.
| Location | Royal Canberra Golf Club |
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| Time | 6:30pm |