THE Clark Community Choir from Musselburgh is looking forward to performing at Beamish Museum near Durham for the first time.

The singers are set to present a mixture of songs in the 1900s pit village chapel at the world-famous open-air museum, which tells the story of life in North East England during the 1820s, 1900s, 1940s and 1950s.

They will leave on their trip by coach tomorrow (Friday), meeting up for a social evening with the Newcastle-based choir Northern Proud Voices, said to be the North East’s longest-running community choir for LGBT people and friends.

The following day, the Clark Community Choir will perform Scottish songs such as Wild Mountain Thyme and Bonnie Wee Jeannie McColl to music by The Proclaimers and Gary Barlow at Beamish Museum, before returning home on Sunday.

A spokesperson for the Clark Community Choir said: “Since the Covid-19 pandemic, grants and fundraising have been tricky but, with a lot of hard work and determination by the committee and our fabulous members, we have managed to make the trip available to all with only a small charge.

“The singing doesn’t stop for the choir following the trip, with a busy events diary for the rest of 2024.”

The choir enjoyed a tour of Yorkshire in 2018 and previous tours have taken the singers to Cardiff and Paris.

“It has been a long time since we last went away and the pandemic put delays to any plans to celebrate our 10th anniversary, so we’re making up for it now,” added the spokesperson.