A musical mum has been rubbing shoulders with some of the legends of music.
Sheila Maloney, of Gordon Avenue, Highams Park will sing at the Proms tomorrow (July 16) as part of the Crouch End festival Chorus, after recently performing in front of thousands at the Glastonbury festival with Ray Davies of rock group the Kinks.
The music teacher has also performed at the Royal Albert Hall with legendary Italian soundtrack composer, Ennio Morricone, who famously provided memorable scores for spaghetti westerns such as Fistful of Dollars and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
She has also performed with Noel Gallagher at a charity concert and provided mysterious shrieks for the new series of Doctor Who.
Mrs Maloney said: “I joined the choir because I just wanted to sing. I’ve never sung before, but it has always been something I wanted to do.
“My favourite concert would definitely be Glastonbury. We had tickets for the whole weekend and then got to go up on stage, it was absolutely brilliant.
“I was very nervous but it was great fun, but we didn’t get to do a sound check beforehand.”
The mother-of-one joined the 140-strong, Muswell Hill-based choir five years ago to fulfil a long-held ambition.
The choir, which is also renowned for performing choral works at the Barbican and South Bank Centre, was formed in 1984.
it has appeared on 60 CDs including albums by Katherine Jenkins, Jonathan Ansell and Lesley Garrett and pop artists Travis and The Divine Comedy.
A recent recording with soprano Kate Royal was recently nominated for a Grammy Award.
This weekend Mrs Maloney and her colleagues will perform Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, which was first sung by a one thousand-strong choir in Austria more than 100 years ago.
“This isn’t the first time we’ve played at the proms. We’ve been going for five years now.
“It’s always exciting. We will be performing with three different choirs, including the BBC Symphony Chorus and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. I cannot wait,” Mrs Maloney said.
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