Spooky men

By Sarah Bartlett

The Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) is celebrating its 19th year of making music and is releasing a humorous and tenderhearted choral performance in commemoration this month.

MRC presents The Spooky Men’s Chorale, a show by an Australian male choir group that mixes comedy with acapella harmonies. The group has had vast experience with over 680 gigs since 2001 to an audience of over 280,000 people. The Spooky Men’s Chorale formed in the Blue Mountains of NSW by “spookmeister” Stephen Taberner and is made up of 15 male singers. They have enjoyed success at the folk festival scene and have toured at noteworthy festivals in the U.K and Europe.

The chorale will perform a combination of Georgian table songs, ballads, and lighthearted anthems such as Don’t stand between a man and his tool.

The performance will also feature songs from the Chorale’s latest studio album Welcome to the Second Half.

Mr Taberner said that the latest album explored deeper topics but still contained their trademark humor.

“The Spooky Men’s Chorale – your fearless investigators into all things physical, metaphysical, and cheese-related – is returning to inspire your ear-things with a collection of new harmonies, man-chords and grand buffoonery,” Mr Taberner said.

The Spooky Men’s Chorale will run on June 20 at 7:30pm at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.

melbournerecital.com.au