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In
July 2006 the choir return to the Canterbury International
Choral Festival where they last performed in 1999. They
will be performing in two concerts - see the Concerts
page for details.
In
September 2004 the Fair City Singers were invited to
participate in the Edinburgh Festival of Youth Orchestras
& Choirs. They performed on Friday 3rd September in
the Central Halls, Tollcross, Edinburgh. This was a very prestigious
event for the choir.
 March
2004 saw the Fair City Singers return to Prague for the
'Young 2004 Prague' Festival where they won a 'Gold
Level Certificate' in the Childrens' Choirs class. That involved
singing a 20 minute unaccompanied programme, a different experience
for the choir, including 2 compulsory test pieces in Czech!
Click
here
for Young 2004 Prague site. 
All
the choirs, bands & orchestras also took part in a huge
parade from the Vltava River bank to the Old Town Square,
where everyone joined in the well-known Czech song,'Skoda
Lasky', better known in this country as 'Roll out the Barrel'.
In
August 2002 the Fair City Singers were chosen to represent
Scotland at the International Conference of Musical Educators
in Norway. Their tour of Norway, Denmark and Sweden is described
on the Tours page on this site.
 In
2000 the choir attended the Niagara International
Music Festival in Canada organised by Arts Bureau for
the Continents.You can also read more about this on our Tours
page.
 
In 1999 forty-three of the Fair City Singers travelled
south to Kent in England for the Canterbury International
Choral Festival also run by Arts Bureau for the Continents.
Youth choirs from all over the world took part and were able
to share the joy of singing an international repertoire of
songs. The choirs included Hillsborough
Girls Choir from New Brunswick, Canada, Ohio
Boychoir, Chautauqua Children's Chorale from New York,
Collegium Voci from Holland, The Boys
Choir Ynnin Pojat from Finland and the Farnham
Youth Choir, that year's Sainsbury Choir of the Year.
They performed in Christ Church College Hall, Canterbury Cathedral,
All Saints Church in Maidstone and finally at a Gala Concert
on July 11th in Shirley Hall, King’s College conducted by
Farnham Youth Choir's musical director David Victor-Smith.
The FCS plan to return to this Festival in July 2006.
 The
choir have also competed in national competitions, being voted
best Scottish Youth Choir in 1992 and 1994 in
the Sainsbury 'Choir of the Year’ televised by the
BBC. The young singers reached the UK semi-finals of this
competition as early as 1992. In 2000 they were
‘Youth Choir of the Day’ at the Scottish Heat and in March
2002 they once again triumphed being voted 'Youth Choir
of the Day' at the Newcastle Heat against stiff competition
from seven youth choirs from Scotland and Northern England.
They were placed fourth out of twenty-nine choirs in the International
Eisteddfod at Llangollen in Wales in 1992.
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